Unit 3 Study Guide - Extraction

Historians use a standard shorthand to describe the motives generating the overseas exploration, expansion and conquests that allowed various European countries to rise to world power between 1400 and 1750. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?

• God

• Glory

• Geography

• Gold

The exchange of goods, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World has been called:

• The Triangle Trade

• Old World Expansion

• The Cortez Effect

• The Columbian Exchange

Which of the following was NOT effect of European oversees expansion?

• Spread of people of African descent throughout the world.

• Spread of European languages.

• Rise of a global economy.

• The Protestant Reformation.

For thousands of years, trade was based on the barter system—the exchanging of goods or services. As nations became powerfully wealthy, new ideas took shape evolving into an economy based on gold or money. This new economy was known as:

• Mercantilism

• Supply and Demand

• Barterism

• Balance of Trade

Read the passage: “I implore (beg) you to recognize the Church as a lady and in the name of the Pope take the King as lord of this land and obey his mandates. If you do not do it, I tell you that with the help of God I will enter powerfully against you all. I will make war everywhere and every way I can. I will subject you to the yoke and obedience to the Church and majesty. I will take your women and children and make the slaves... The deaths and injuries that you will receive from here on will be your own fault and not that of his majesty nor of the gentlemen that accompany me.” Which of the following motives for exploration, expansion and conquests is illustrated above?

• God

• Glory

• Geography

• Gold

What was not a result of the exchange of goods between the Old World and the indigenous people of the New World?

• They began growing coffee, bananas, and sugar cane.

• They started mining gold and silver.

• They began domesticating horses, cows, and sheep.

• Their population was reduced because of disease.

Read the passage: “Cortes also explained the mystery of Baptism. He concluded the lesson by telling them how the Emperor Charles grieved that they were not in God's grace, and how the emperor had sent him among them only to save their souls. He begged them to become willing vassals of the emperor, because that was the will of the pope, in whose name he spoke.” – Vision of the Vanquished (The Broken Spears). Which of the following motives for exploration, expansion and conquests is illustrated above?

• God

• Glory

• Geography

• Gold

Which of the following was NOT part of the Triangle Trade?

• Exchange of goods from Europe for African slaves.

• Exchange of goods from the Americas for African slaves.

• Exchange of goods from Europe for spices from India.

• Exchange of goods from the Americas to Europe.

Read the passage: “And [the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama] told [the Indian ruler of Calicut]...[kings of Portugal] had annually sent out vessels to make discoveries in the direction of India,...not because they sought for gold or silver, for of this they had such abundance that they needed not what was to be found in this country. He further stated that the captains sent out traveled for a year or two, until their provisions were exhausted, and then returned to Portugal...” – Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama, 1497-1499. Which of the following motives for exploration, expansion and conquests is illustrated above?

• God

• Glory

• Geography

• Gold

Read the passage: “I gave them many beautiful and pleasing things, which I had brought with me, for no return whatever, in order to win their affection, and that they might become Christians and inclined to love our King and Queen and Princes and all the people of Spain; and that they might be eager to search for and gather and give to us what they abound in and we greatly need.” – Christopher Columbus, letter to Ferdinand and Isabella, 1493. Which of the following motives for exploration, expansion and conquests is illustrated above?

• God and Glory

• Glory and Geography

• Geography and Gold

• Gold and God