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WorksheetsAP World- Unit 4
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 14mins
European diseases that arrived in the New World were particularly deadly because...
The city of Constantinople is currently named _________
Baghdad
Tehran
Istanbul
Turkey
Which of the following developments can be most directly attributed to Portuguese and Spanish state sponsorship of maritime exploration in the late fifteenth century?
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 processes most immediately led to the global expansion of European political power in the period circa 1500 ?
The Columbian Exchange
The Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
Advances in shipbuilding and navigational methods
Advances in medicine that improved Europeans’ ability to survive in tropical climates
How were Europeans first able to travel to other parts of the world in 1450?
Using knowledge and technology from prior societies
Creating new types of navigational tools
Using boats invented by the English
None of these
What noble was responsible for initiating a series of expeditions along the African coast and outward to the Azores in the 15th century?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Hugh Dupuy, Count Marechal
Cardinal Mazarin, regent of France
Prince Henry of England
Which of the following statements are true about the fall of Constantinople?
Which conclusion about the Portuguese is be supported by the passage above?
They manufactured luxury goods that they could sell in China.
They made great profits transporting goods between Asian countries.
They primarily wanted to accumulate silk
They preferred to trade with China rather than Japan.
Which of the following was a cause of increased European travel? (More than 1)
Government sponsorship
Desire to end monarchies in the New World
Spread of maritime technology and ideas from older societies
Interest in spreading trade and religion
The specific technological innovation depicted here that improved deep water navigation was the
compass
upper deck oars
astrolabe
lateen sails
What was the Encomienda System?
System of labor that enslaved Natives in exchange of food and shelter
System of labor that used serfs to tend the field
System of labor in which natives where granted land and money in exchange of gold.
System of labor that gave jobs to thousands of Africans coming to the Americas.
Which economic system was in place when the exchange of goods in 1450-1750 arose?
European mercantilist laws
Laissez-faire principles
Renaissance guild bylaws
Medieval manorialism
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
Split the Americas between England and France
Split the Americas between Spain and Portugal
Split the Americas between Belgium and China
Split the Americas between the Dutch and Spain
The first initiative for Western exploration and conquest came from the kingdom of
Venice
The slave voyage to the Americas was referred to as the
What peoples had preceded the Portuguese in entering the markets of south and Southeast Asia?
Spanish, Dutch, and British
Muslims
Greeks and Persians
French
What was the African contribution to the Columbian Exchange?
