AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.4 questions & answers 2024

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.4Indentured Servitude - correct answers Arrangements thru which servants were contracted to work for a specified period of years in exchange for passage Chattel Slavery - correct answers System in which individuals are considered property to be bought & sold Asante Empire & the Kingdom of Congo - correct answers The expansion of maritime trading networks supported their growth like some other African states 1498 Vasco de Gama - correct answers Invaded the Swahili city-states, most being thriving commercial centers in the Indian Ocean trade; Portuguese took over trade in Kilwa, Mombasa & other city-states by sending heavily armed ships & building forts Japanese trade restrictions - correct answers By missionaries, thousands of Japanese converted to Christianity, but some intolerant Christians destroyed Buddhist shrines causing the Japanese gov. in 1587 to ban Christian worship services & take additional steps over the next 40 years to persecute Christians & limit foreign influences Japan, 1630s - correct answers The gov. had expelled almost all foreigners, banned most foreign books, & prohibited Japanese people from traveling abroad Japan's Isolation - correct answers Japan was partially isolated from the rest of the world for over 2 centuries (exempting some Dutch merchants living on a small island in Nagasaki harbor) though it continued some trade with China, carried out mostly by regional lords Ming Dynasty - correct answers Attempted to limit outside influence on China by restricting trade; they prohibited private foreign trade, destroyed some dockyards, limited the size of ships that could be built, & began reconstructing the Great Wall