WorksheetsTopics 4.1-- 4.4: Assessment Questions
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of the following most directly led to European state sponsorship of maritime exploration?
Improvements in European geographic knowledge of Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Improvements in Europeans’ ability to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Religious divisions in Europe related to the Protestant Reformation.
The development of theories of natural rights and representative government.
Which of the following most immediately led to the global expansion of European political power in the period circa 1500?
The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople.
The Columbian Exchange
Advances in medicine that improved Europeans’ ability to survive in tropical climates.
Advances in shipbuilding and navigational methods.
The maritime exploration efforts by England, France, and the Netherlands were most directly connected to which of the following?
The need to ease population pressures in Europe by establishing settlement colonies.
The transfer of engineering and navigational knowledge from the classical and Islamic worlds to Europe.
The Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation.
Economic competition against other European states and a desire to find new sailing routes to Asia.
The author uses all of the following as evidence to support his argument about the impact of smallpox on Native American populations EXCEPT...
many Native Americans who contracted smallpox died from it
the English settlers tried to help the Native Americans who were afflicted with smallpox
the Native Americans feared smallpox more than any other disease
smallpox was widespread among Native Americans
The author invokes which of the following to support his claim that smallpox’s impact on European settlers was different from its impact on Native Americans?
Pseudoscientific theories of European racial superiority
Evidence from population genetics
Ideas about the role of divine providence in human affairs
Protestant ideas about hard work and economic success as markers of personal virtue
The passage implies that the author was aware of smallpox being an infectious disease. Which of the following can best be cited as evidence of that claim?
The author’s statement that Native Americans lived in a “trading house” near the English settlement
The author’s statement that smallpox was so debilitating that those afflicted with it could not “make a fire, or fetch water to drink”
The author’s statement that the English settlers “took pity” at the sight of the Native Americans’ suffering
The author’s statement that no English settlers fell ill, even though “many performed these favors for the Indians for weeks”
The letter is best understood in the context of which of the following aspects of the historical situation in sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1600s?
Political, religious, and economic rivalries shaped European colonial policies in Africa.
State centralization in Europe led to a change from joint-stock company control to direct imperial control in many colonial territories.
The arrival of Europeans led to the conquest and destruction of many native African states.
Religious conflicts stemming from the spread of Islam from North Africa made sub-Saharan African states vulnerable to European conquest.
The point of view expressed by the Dutch West India Company’s directors in the letter can best be described as...
evenhanded in describing the benefits and detriments of various proposed options to the States-General
shaped by views of European cultural and religious superiority over African peoples, which the States-General representatives would have been likely to share
dismissive in its evaluation of the military and strategic importance of the kingdom of Kongo to the Netherlands
seeking to steer the States-General representatives into taking action that would benefit the company financially
The report’s position on the proposed transfer of Luanda to the Dutch is best understood in light of the authors’ goal to...
secure profits from the rapidly expanding trans-Atlantic slave trade.
highlight the gender and family imbalances created by the slave trade.
recommend that the company expand its operations to the Indian Ocean and the spice islands of Southeast Asia.
offer a comparison between the profitability of East African versus West African slave trade routes.
