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WorksheetsAP Euro: Age of Discovery
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which of the following characterizes the role of Europe in the system of world trade prior to the voyage of Columbus?
Europe served as the most important market for products because it produced few goods.
Europe was the major western node of the trading system that produced high-quality textiles and metalwork desired by others.
Europe provided the banking and financial services that sustained the world trading system.
Europe was a minor outpost that produced few products desired by other civilizations.
Which major change in the world economy prompted European exploration in the late fifteenth century?
A decline in the Chinese population led to a shrinking market in Asia for European goods.
The Mongols discouraged trade between China and the West.
The Genoese took over the spice trade from Venice.
The Ottomans expanded territorially and dominated trade routes.
What impact did the reconquista have on Spain’s exploration and conquest?
It encouraged the Spaniards to immediately attack the Ottoman Empire.
It meant that there were fewer opportunities for ambitious young men within Spain.
The conquest of Granada was accompanied by anti-Muslim riots.
Spain acquired huge sums of money to fund Columbus’s voyages.
Many of the conquered Spanish Muslims acted as navigators and pilots.
How did technology and better scientific information fuel the explorations?
The magnetic compass allowed sailors to calculate their longitude.
Ptolemy’s Geography gave a reasonably accurate estimate of the distance from Europe to Asia
The recent European invention of the astrolabe made sea navigation possible.
Caravels with lateen sails were more maneuverable and could carry more than previous ships.
Cannons proved useful in almost every climate and condition.
For Spain, the most important consequence of Magellan’s voyage was that
Portugal ceded Goa to Spain
It led to the immediate conquest and colonization of the Philippines.
Spain became discouraged from competing with Portugal for the Asian spice trade.
Spain focused more on the Asian trade rather than on the New World for the next passage to Asia via the Atlantic Portugal ceded Goa to Spain
The Spanish set up the encomienda system in the New World to create
A system of forced labor for the Amerindians
The sugar plantation system in the Caribbean islands
The outright enslavement of the Amerindians
The establishment of churches for the Amerindians with services in their languages
The use of African slaves as laborers
What characterized French colonization efforts in the Americas during the sixteenth century?
Despite large numbers of settlers, the colonies were not a success.
The French government sponsored large-scale settlement of Canada
Most French settlement and exploration took place in the Caribbean
Only a small number of French settled permanently, but the French traded and explored over vast distances.
How did Michel de Montaigne respond to the civil anarchy and war of the sixteenth century?
He accepted that disunity and conflict were part of human existence.
He promoted skepticism and cultural relativism.
He felt confidence in the ultimate victory of absolute truth.
He emphasized persistence to overcome conflict.
What best describes the nature of the cultural changes that followed the European presence in the Americas?
Native cultures were essentially destroyed by warfare.
Native cultures were transformed by disease and warfare, but those societies also influenced European development.
Native cultures were transformed by contact, while European cultures remained essentially unchanged.
Both European and native cultures were devastated by disease and conflict related to their contact.
What role did viceroys play in colonial New Spain?
They had largely symbolic duties.
They were the chief religious authorities in the colonies.
They served as military commanders who answered to corregidores.
They had broad civil and military authority.
Which African state came closest to the medieval European legends of Prester John's kingdom?
Ethiopia
Mamluk Egypt
The kingdom of the Akan people in modern Ghana
Mombasa
What did the Columbian exchange demonstrate about the nature of the relationship between Europe and the New World?
The relationship generated considerable change in both societies.
Europeans were not interested in learning from native cultures.
Both cultures maintained an essentially fixed character.
In matters of diet, people were very set in their ways.
Which did NOT travel from the Old World to the New?
Horses
Pigs
Wheat
Corn
Dogs
What was the principle trade good the Spanish exchanged for their silver at Manila in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?
Indian tea
Portuguese wines
African slaves
Chinese silks
Which of the following is true about the commercial revolution in Europe?
Most of the money used for overseas commercial ventures came from European governments.
Joint-stock companies provided the means for individual investors to profit from overseas commercial ventures.
Private banking houses continued to be the standard financial institutions of the age of exploration.
Most nations saw a reduction in tariffs and trade restrictions during the commercial revolution.
What contributed to the defeat of the Inca Empire by the Spanish in the 1530s?
The Inca Empire had been weakened by a major civil war.
The Inca Empire was largely united by religious ties and had little political infrastructure.
The Inca Empire was fragmented into many different native kingdoms.
The Inca Empire had no organized military forces.
In what ways did Spain contribute to economic difficulties across Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth century?
The Spanish, who controlled gold and silver supplies, kept both metals within Spain.
As mounting Spanish foreign debts were paid with silver, Spanish inflation spread across Europe.
To expand its empire, Spain engaged in sustained war against all her neighbors.
Spanish bankers were the most important in Europe.
The nation that first established trading posts in India launching the rapid expansion of the spice trade, was
Portugal
Spain
the Netherlands
France.
The involvement of Prince Henry in Portuguese exploration offers evidence for the importance of what aspect of European expansion?
Personal participation of royalty
Royal patronage
Mathematical talent
Protestant willingness to defy church restrictions on commerce
What does the success and growth of the Indian Ocean trade indicate about the role of the state in promoting commerce?
It was promoted mostly by autonomous port cities.
It expanded dramatically when the Venetian state invigorated it in the sixteenth century.
It benefitted enormously from the growth of state power on the Indian subcontinent.
It was promoted primarily by the Chinese state to strengthen the empire.
