MARITIME EMPIRES ESTABLISHED UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Describe the effect of the growth of the plantation economy
Answer:
Led to increase of laborers (indentured servants; chattel slavery)
Question:
2. Who were the first Europeans to set up trading posts on the African coast
Answer:
Portuguese under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator
Question:
3. How did trade with Europe give some African city states a military advantage
Answer:
Traded slaves for military weapons
Question:
4. How did some African city states, like Dahomey, grow wealthy
Answer:
Enslaved Africans by raiding nearby villages rather than selling their own
Gaining money with no loss
Question:
5. How does artwork from Africa prove that European traders made inroads into the Kongo and Benin
kingdoms
Answer:
Benin artists showed European intruders in their paintings
Question:
6. How does this artwork portray Europeans
Answer:
negatively
Question:
7. What was the effect of Vasco de Gama's invasion of the Swahili city-states
Answer:
decline in the region
Question:
8. Why did the Japanese government ban Christianity in 1587
Answer:
Christians burned Buddhist shrines
, Question:
9. Describe Japan by 1630
Answer:
expelled most foreigners
banned most foreign books
prohibited abroad travels
Question:
10. Describe Japan over the course of the next 200 years
Answer:
isolated from the world
traded with chinese
allowed Dutch merchants to stay isolated on the island of Nagasaki Harbor
Question:
11. How did the Ming Dynasty try to limit outside influence in China
Answer:
limiting trade
Question:
12. How did the Ming Dynasty try to limit trade
Answer:
prohibited private foreign trade
destroyed some dockyards
limited size of ships that could be built
began the reconstruction of the Great Wall
Question:
13. What are two other examples of Ming conservatism
Answer:
reemphasized Confucianism
reinvigorated the traditional exam system
Question:
14. What shaped the expansion of empires
Answer:
politics
economics
religious motives
Question:
15. Describe the role of Great Britain
Answer:
began a commercial relationship with the Mughal Empire
Question:
16. Describe the role of Portugal
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Describe the effect of the growth of the plantation economy
Answer:
Led to increase of laborers (indentured servants; chattel slavery)
Question:
2. Who were the first Europeans to set up trading posts on the African coast
Answer:
Portuguese under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator
Question:
3. How did trade with Europe give some African city states a military advantage
Answer:
Traded slaves for military weapons
Question:
4. How did some African city states, like Dahomey, grow wealthy
Answer:
Enslaved Africans by raiding nearby villages rather than selling their own
Gaining money with no loss
Question:
5. How does artwork from Africa prove that European traders made inroads into the Kongo and Benin
kingdoms
Answer:
Benin artists showed European intruders in their paintings
Question:
6. How does this artwork portray Europeans
Answer:
negatively
Question:
7. What was the effect of Vasco de Gama's invasion of the Swahili city-states
Answer:
decline in the region
Question:
8. Why did the Japanese government ban Christianity in 1587
Answer:
Christians burned Buddhist shrines
, Question:
9. Describe Japan by 1630
Answer:
expelled most foreigners
banned most foreign books
prohibited abroad travels
Question:
10. Describe Japan over the course of the next 200 years
Answer:
isolated from the world
traded with chinese
allowed Dutch merchants to stay isolated on the island of Nagasaki Harbor
Question:
11. How did the Ming Dynasty try to limit outside influence in China
Answer:
limiting trade
Question:
12. How did the Ming Dynasty try to limit trade
Answer:
prohibited private foreign trade
destroyed some dockyards
limited size of ships that could be built
began the reconstruction of the Great Wall
Question:
13. What are two other examples of Ming conservatism
Answer:
reemphasized Confucianism
reinvigorated the traditional exam system
Question:
14. What shaped the expansion of empires
Answer:
politics
economics
religious motives
Question:
15. Describe the role of Great Britain
Answer:
began a commercial relationship with the Mughal Empire
Question:
16. Describe the role of Portugal
