AP World History Unit 2 Review

The fact that Europeans often had to pay for Asian spices and textiles in cash led to which of the following?

• An intense desire for precious metals

• A European trade surplus

• A lack of desire to trade with Asia

• The closing of the Indian Ocean trade network

The first direct and sustained link between the Americas and Asia was the trade in

• fur

• spices

• silk

• silver

Which of the following was established as a Spanish colony in the sixteenth century?

• Goa

• Macao

• Mombasa

• The Philippines

Which group had the greatest success in converting people outside Europe to Christianity?

• Jesuit missionaries in China

• Spanish missionaries in the Philippines

• Puritan missionaries in New England

• Portuguese missionaries in West Africa

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

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Desire for the colonies cash crops led to an increase in

• treaties between Europeans

• the slave trade

• urbanization

• desertification

Form of slavery where slaves have no rights and are considered property

• Chattel slavery

• Indentured servitude

• Mita system

• complete slavery

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

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