Review of Unit 4 Transoceanic Connections

Land-based empires made it ______ for Europeans to get _____ luxury goods they craved.

• easier, American

• harder, American

• easier, Asian

• harder, Asian

In the 15th and 16th centuries, oceanic travel across the Atlantic and the Pacific created the first truly global _________.

• pandemic

• religion

• network

• extinction

The _________ _________ transformed life in every part of the world, immediately in some places and more gradually in others.

• land empires

• Columbian Exchange

• Great Dying

• Spanish conquistadors

Their governments were all relatively ________, meaning rulers put as much power as possible in their ________ hands.

• decentralized, nobility's

• centralized, own

• theocratic, religion's

• democratic, peoples'

Oceanic empires imposed racial hierarchies and coerced labor systems to ensure work was completed.

• True

• False

The Colombian Exchange can be described as -?

• An economic policy that promotes strengthening a nation by expanding its trade
• The exchange of people, other living things, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemisphere
• The process of establishing settlements called colonies
• DON'T PICK THIS ANSWER

Which of the following countries was the first to dominate the seas with advanced naval technology?

• Portugal

• France

• Britain

• China

The Caravel was an example of

• continuity from the rise of civilizations

• Innovations in ship design

• commercial innovations from Asia

• Agricultural innovations

Monopolies enriched European companies or nations by...

• giving that nation or company exclusive trading rights over an area or over a crop, so they received all of the profits for trading it

• growing regional markets into international ones

• limiting the amount of a product that countries could extract and sell

• I honestly can't think of any better answer choices...

Which Maritime Empire was the first to establish large-scale slave-trading operations on the African continent for the purposes of export to plantations in the Americas?

• Spain

• England

• France

• Portugal