A HISTORY OF WORLD SOCIETIES
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● List 3 motivations for expansion in Southeast Asia.
Answer: Glory, gold and God.
●● Who played a leading role in early Portuguese exploration?
Answer: Prince Henry
●● Spanish explorers-conquerors were known as...
Answer: Conquistadors
●● Who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico?
Answer: Cortez
●● Who ruled the Aztecs?
Answer: Montezuma
●● Who conquered the Inca in Peru?
,Answer: Pizarro
●● Who was the Inca leader?
Answer: Atahualpa
●● The exchange of animals, plants, and diseases between the Old and
the New Worlds.
Answer: Colombian Exchange
●● How did the conquistadors decimate the indigenous populations in
the Americas?
Answer: Bringing disease
●● When did "black slavery" begin?
Answer: 1453 after the fall of Constantinople and the invention of the
printing press
●● What crop led to the tremendous increase in the African Slave Trade?
Answer: Sugar
●● Who brought in the most black slaves?
Answer: Brazil
, ●● What caused the fall of the Ming Dynasty in China?
Answer: Fiscal Crisis
●● What resulted from the Mexica/Aztec Empire?
Answer: Advanced mathematics, astronomical and engineering
technology.
●● Where was the Mexica/Aztec Empire?
Answer: Modern Mexico and Central America
●● Inca Empire
Answer: Empire in Peru. conquered by Pizarro, who began an empire for
the Spanish in 1535
●● Viceroyalties
Answer: The name for the four administrative units of Spanish
possessions in the Americas: New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La
Plata.
●● How did Cortez set out to conquer the Aztecs?
Answer: He made allies with the Aztecs enemies.
●● What did the Spanish leave behind?
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED
APLUS
●● List 3 motivations for expansion in Southeast Asia.
Answer: Glory, gold and God.
●● Who played a leading role in early Portuguese exploration?
Answer: Prince Henry
●● Spanish explorers-conquerors were known as...
Answer: Conquistadors
●● Who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico?
Answer: Cortez
●● Who ruled the Aztecs?
Answer: Montezuma
●● Who conquered the Inca in Peru?
,Answer: Pizarro
●● Who was the Inca leader?
Answer: Atahualpa
●● The exchange of animals, plants, and diseases between the Old and
the New Worlds.
Answer: Colombian Exchange
●● How did the conquistadors decimate the indigenous populations in
the Americas?
Answer: Bringing disease
●● When did "black slavery" begin?
Answer: 1453 after the fall of Constantinople and the invention of the
printing press
●● What crop led to the tremendous increase in the African Slave Trade?
Answer: Sugar
●● Who brought in the most black slaves?
Answer: Brazil
, ●● What caused the fall of the Ming Dynasty in China?
Answer: Fiscal Crisis
●● What resulted from the Mexica/Aztec Empire?
Answer: Advanced mathematics, astronomical and engineering
technology.
●● Where was the Mexica/Aztec Empire?
Answer: Modern Mexico and Central America
●● Inca Empire
Answer: Empire in Peru. conquered by Pizarro, who began an empire for
the Spanish in 1535
●● Viceroyalties
Answer: The name for the four administrative units of Spanish
possessions in the Americas: New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La
Plata.
●● How did Cortez set out to conquer the Aztecs?
Answer: He made allies with the Aztecs enemies.
●● What did the Spanish leave behind?
