AP World History Unit 4 FINAL

The voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492

• opened the way for Spain to colonize North and South America.

• led the way for Portugal to build a vast trading empire in Asia.

• ed England to claim the the vast territory surrounding Hudson Bay.

• showed Spain the way around South America and into the Pacific Ocean.

This explorer was looking for a way to go west from Europe to find Asia.  Instead he discovered a famous river and explored the area around NYC.  Who is it?

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Henry Hudson

What is the most likely cause for the majority of population losses among indigenous Americans after European contact?

• Climate

• Disease

• Enslavement

• Warfare

First European to sail around Africa and reach India

• Christopher Columbus
• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernando Cortes
• Vasco da Gama

A caravel, carrack and fluyt are all

• currencies

• navigational tools

• ships

• tribal leaders

The sixteenth- and seventeenth-century maritime exploration efforts by England, France, and the Netherlands were most directly connected to which of the following historical processes?

• A

  The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation

• B

  Economic competition against Spain and Portugal and a desire to find new sailing routes to Asia

• C

  The transfer of engineering and navigational knowledge from the classical and Islamic worlds to Europe

• D

  The need to ease population pressures in Europe by establishing settlement colonies

Which of the following processes most immediately led to the global expansion of European political power in the period circa 1500 ?

• A

  The Columbian Exchange

• B

  The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

• C

  Advances in shipbuilding and navigational methods

• D

  Advances in medicine that improved Europeans’ ability to survive in tropical climates

Which of the following would a historian most likely cite as evidence in support of the author’s argument in the second paragraph of the passage?

• A

  The Ottoman millet system, an arrangement designed to utilize the economic contributions of non-Muslim groups within the empire while granting them limited autonomy to organize their communal affairs under their own religious leaders

• B

  The Ottoman practice of devshirme, a military levy of Christian boys who would be converted to Islam and trained as Ottoman Janissary soldiers or bureaucrats in state service

• C

  The Ottoman practice of farming out the collection of taxes to local private individuals (some of them non-Muslim), because of the shortage of trained government financial officials

• D

  The Ottoman sultans’ continued powers of granting final approval for any high-ranking appointment of a non-Muslim religious leader, including the power to approve patriarchs and bishops of the various Christian communities and chief rabbis of the Jewish community

Which of the following is an implicit argument made by the author in the passage?

• A

  The current political and economic makeup of European colonies in the Caribbean is not sustainable over the long term.

• B

  Christianity will provide a solution to the social ills of colonial societies in the Caribbean.

• C

  Coerced labor systems have allowed a minority of the population of Caribbean colonial societies to reap enormous economic benefits.

• D

  It is incumbent upon France to try to wrest control of Barbados from Great Britain.

Which continents are part of the New World?

• Europe, Asia, Africa
• North America & South America
• Australia & Antarctica
• the United States and Russia