AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN, Topic 4.4 question n answers graded A+ 2023/2024

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 Seven Years' War - correct answers Mid-18th century, France & Great Britain with their respective allies fought for power on 5 continents; Britain's victory in 1763 drove the French out of India East India Company (EIC) - correct answers Established small forts on coasts that focused only on making profit thru trade & controlled very little land, but started expanding, taking advantage of tensions between Muslims & Hindus in India and increasing its political power thru treaties with local rulers Sepoys - correct answers European-trained Indian private forces that helped the EIC move inland, which spread its influence so Britain ultimately intervened in India politically & militarily to the extent that it controlled much of it The British Global Network - correct answers Britain set up trading posts in West Africa - the Asante Empire limiting their impact; trading posts in Africa, India & elsewhere paved the way for globalization How did American population change with European contact? - correct answers the Aztec Empire in Mexico & the Inca Empire in South America each had 10 to 15 million people before European arrival, but the spread of European diseases caused their populations to plummet & both empires fell swiftly when the Spanish attacked New Spain - correct answers Cortés's forces in Mexico overthrew the Aztec by 1521, establishing this colony; the Spaniards melted down the Aztecs' treasures & sent the gold home; they destroyed Tenochtitlan, building their own capital (Mexico City) Francisco Pizarro - correct answers he & his crew attacked the Inca & kidnapped Atahualpa (their leader), offering to release him for gold & the Inca complied (they killed Atahualpa anyways in 1533) Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) - correct answers Spain & Portugal divided the Americas between them - Spain got all lands west of a meridian that went thru eastern South America & Portugal got all lands east of the line (sounds kinda unfair ngl) Pedro Menéndez de Avilés - correct answers Spanish explorer who founded a fort in St.Augustine on the East Coast of Florida in 1565