APWH Unit 4 Test Review

All of the following have been African contributions to cultures in the Americas EXCEPT

• African forms of religious observance

• African musical forms

• African folklore

• African monetary systems

During the seventeenth century, one of the reasons Africans participated in the Atlantic slave trade was

• the demand for weapons among African elites

• bribery of African leaders by Caribbean plantation owners

• the desire of African leaders to dominate the Atlantic trade network

• the ambition of African leaders to gain a foothold in the Americas

In the three centuries after Columbus’ voyages, most of the people who came to the Western Hemisphere originated in which of the following regions?

• Southern Europe

• Northern Europe

• Western Africa

• Eastern Africa

The trend shown on the graph above is best explained by

• increased production of cash crops like sugar

• growth of silver mining in New Spain

• industrialized textile mills’ demand for raw cotton

• African slave-trading kingdoms’ demand for European trade goods

The trade illustrated by the map contributed most directly to which of the following?

• The Glorious Revolution

• The French Revolution

• The Haitian Revolution

• The Cuban Revolution

All of the following resulted from the growth of the Atlantic slave trade in Africa EXCEPT

• the shift in trade focus from Saharan routes to the coast

• destabilization of local African societies

• the exclusion of Africa from the emerging global market

• increased violence through widespread use of firearms

In the period 1500 to 1750, the population of the Portuguese colony of Brazil grew rapidly and became predominantly African. Which of the following best explains these demographic changes?

• The adoption of indigenous food crops by African migrants

• Portuguese loss of colonial holdings in the Indian Ocean

• The rapid natural increase of Brazil’s early slave population

• The increase in global demand for cash crops such as sugar

Which of the following was a major change in global patterns of religious beliefs and practices in the period 1450-1750 C.E.?

• The emergence of syncretic religions led to an increase in polytheism

• Adherents of monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Islam increased both in number and in geographic scope as a result of conquest, trade, and missionary activities.

• Intellectual movements such as the European Enlightenment weakened the authority of established religions and led to the growing popularity of atheism worldwide.

• Messianic, revivalist, and fundamentalist movements came to dominate the indigenous religious traditions in Africa, Asia, and the Americas in response to Western imperialism.

During the period 1600—1800, the leaders of China, Korea, and Japan all had policies that

• promoted trade and expansion

• encouraged emigration and colonization

• opened their countries to European merchants

• regulated interactions with foreigners

An important reason for China’s rapid population increase in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was

• the introduction of new crops from the Americas

• the end of the bubonic plague in Asia

• the widespread adoption of the European three-field system

• unprecedented immigration from the Mughal and Ottoman empires