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

• African forms of religious observance

• African musical forms

• knowledge of how to grow African crops

• 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 elities

• 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 foodhold 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

• East Asia

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 expoains there 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

Historians consider the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to be a time of great change in cultivation methods and in the physical landscape of Latin America. Which of the following pairings was most responsible for these changes?

• Terrances and cacao

• Economiendas and corn

• horses and potatoes

• slave labor and sugar

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

From the picture of Portuguese ivory (Q9 on test), The implicit claim made by the image about a connection between religious devotion and maritime exploration best demonstrates which of the following in the period circa 1450 - 1750?

• Increasing global connections expanded the reach of existing religions

• Church authorities argued that religious diversity should be respected and protected

• The intensification of cross-cultural interactions resulted in the development of syncretic religions

Which of the following accurately describes the effect of the spread of Christianity among most Amerindian societies after 1500 C.E.?

• Christianity completely supplanted Amerindian religious beliefs and practices shortly after the conquest

• Amerindians maintained local customs by combining indigenous beliefs with elements of Christianity

picture (sailing ship on the Indian Ocean, Q14on test)- Muslim maritime activities in the Indian Ocean would be most disrupted by which of the following sixteenth century developments?

• The voyages of Chinese treasure fleets led by Zheng He

• The arrival of Portuguese and other Europeans

• The spread of epidemic diseases