World History, Duiker - Exam Preparation Test Bank (Downloadable Doc)

Chapter 14—New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market


ESSAY
1. What geographical advantages did Western Europe have in its encounters with the non-Western
world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? How did the Portuguese lead the way in
exploration? What role did Prince Henry the Navigator play? How did imported eastern ideas and
innovations spur the Portuguese advance?
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2. How did technological advancements, the rise of stronger governments, and economic growth
cause European societies to become involved in maritime expansion in the 1400s and 1500s?
Why then?
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3. Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of the voyages of Zhenghe with those of
Columbus. Speculate on how history might have be different had Zhenghe successfully navigated
the Pacific to the coast of California.
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4. Discuss the European impact, positive and negative, on the native populations of Southeast Asia.
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5. How did Spanish methods of dealing with their new territories in America affect the native
populations there? Discuss and elaborate on the role of Bartolomé de la Casas in alleviating the
aggressive policies of the Spanish toward the native populations
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6. Compare and contrast slavery in Africa before the sixteenth century to African slavery after the
arrival of the Europeans. What are the continuities, if any, and what are the differences?
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7. How, and to what extent, did the arrival of Europeans influence the scope and conduct of the
spice trade?
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, 8. Compare and contrast the impact of the European colonial nations in the Americas with the
impact of the West in Southeast Asia. What are the similarities and what are the differences?
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9. Why was it Western Europe rather than China, the Muslim world, or some other non-Western
society that effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century? What prevented China and the
well-organized Islamic states from achieving an ascendancy?
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10. Did "globalization" really begin in the sixteenth century? Why and/or why not? Give specific
examples.
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11. What were the possible factors that allowed some non-Western societies to resist or cope with the
arrival of Westerners better than others? How did Alfonso I seek to use his common Christian
faith to alleviate the impact of slavery on his subjects?
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12. How did the arrival of Islam change the previously Buddhist and Hindu societies of Southeast
Asia?
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IDENTIFICATIONS
Instructions: Identify the following terms.
1. Paramesvara
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2. Malacca
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3. Prince Henry the Navigator
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4. Vasco da Gama
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5. "Christians and spices"
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6. Marco Polo's Travels
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7. Sufism
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8. Songhai
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9. Timbuktu
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10. Leo Africanus
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11. caravels
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12. "God, glory, and gold"
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13. sternpost rudder, compass, and astrolabe
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14. conquistador
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15. portolani

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16. the Gold Coast
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17. Calicut
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18. Afonso de Albuquerque
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19. Christopher Columbus
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20. Hispaniola
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21. Pedro Cabral
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22. John Cabot
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23. Treaty of Tordesillas
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24. Amerigo Vespucci
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25. Hernán Cortés
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