AP World History Exam - 1450-1750 Questions With
Correct Answers
Motives for European Exploration - ANSWER Adventure and Ambition; Wealth (land,
resources found); Technology (Caravel-lanteen sails; compass, sextant, astrolabe; maps,
cannons, knowing ocean winds); Religion (to spread Christianity)
Technology of European Exploration - ANSWER Lanteen sails allowed ships to sail in any
direction; Astrolabe was used to determine latitude; magnetic compass improved
navigation; caravels were faster than older ships; Identification of winds
European Explorers - ANSWER Christopher Columbus - First to colinize America - Spain
Ferdinand Magellan - First to travel around the world
Vasco Da Gama and Bartholemeu Dias - Round the Cape of Good Hope and to India -
Portugual
European Exploration of the Pacfic - ANSWER took austrailia and many other island from
indonesia to oceania
Commercial Revolution - ANSWER the expansion of the trade and buisness, colonialism
and mercantilism that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th
centuries.
, Mercantilism - ANSWER a mother country imposes taxes on transporting goods on their
daughter countries
Trading Post Empires - ANSWER A series of fortified trade posts esablished by Dutch,
French, Portuguese, English and Spanish to command hegemony over large coastal
areas.
British - South Africa and India
Joint Stock Company - ANSWER A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each
shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the
company's profits and debts.
Spanish Conquest of Americans - ANSWER Led first by Christopher Columbus - toke land
from Native Americans and colonized America
Columbian Exchange - ANSWER The Exchange of European and Native American Goods
- establised by Christopher Columbus - The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and
technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's
voyages.
Spanish Colonial Empire in Americas - ANSWER Created Social pyramid were Viceroys
ran government as presidents and Africans and Natives were lowest in status
Christianity in Americas - ANSWER mainly Catholicism- due to Spaniards; missionaries,
Correct Answers
Motives for European Exploration - ANSWER Adventure and Ambition; Wealth (land,
resources found); Technology (Caravel-lanteen sails; compass, sextant, astrolabe; maps,
cannons, knowing ocean winds); Religion (to spread Christianity)
Technology of European Exploration - ANSWER Lanteen sails allowed ships to sail in any
direction; Astrolabe was used to determine latitude; magnetic compass improved
navigation; caravels were faster than older ships; Identification of winds
European Explorers - ANSWER Christopher Columbus - First to colinize America - Spain
Ferdinand Magellan - First to travel around the world
Vasco Da Gama and Bartholemeu Dias - Round the Cape of Good Hope and to India -
Portugual
European Exploration of the Pacfic - ANSWER took austrailia and many other island from
indonesia to oceania
Commercial Revolution - ANSWER the expansion of the trade and buisness, colonialism
and mercantilism that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th
centuries.
, Mercantilism - ANSWER a mother country imposes taxes on transporting goods on their
daughter countries
Trading Post Empires - ANSWER A series of fortified trade posts esablished by Dutch,
French, Portuguese, English and Spanish to command hegemony over large coastal
areas.
British - South Africa and India
Joint Stock Company - ANSWER A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each
shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the
company's profits and debts.
Spanish Conquest of Americans - ANSWER Led first by Christopher Columbus - toke land
from Native Americans and colonized America
Columbian Exchange - ANSWER The Exchange of European and Native American Goods
- establised by Christopher Columbus - The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and
technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's
voyages.
Spanish Colonial Empire in Americas - ANSWER Created Social pyramid were Viceroys
ran government as presidents and Africans and Natives were lowest in status
Christianity in Americas - ANSWER mainly Catholicism- due to Spaniards; missionaries,
