GHIST Midterm Exam With Accurate Answers 100% Verified
D. Invitations sent from India. - ANSWER Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages
for all of the following reasons except
a. the potential for economic gain through trade.
b. the desire to spread Christianity
c. confidence arising from improved cartography, navigational methods, and ship
designs.
d. Invitations sent from India.
e. Growing knowledge of wind patterns in the Atlantic Ocean.
c. Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque. - ANSWER The Portuguese captains
who first landed at Calicut in India and seized the port of Malacca in modern-day
Malaysia were, respectively,
a. Jaime Cardose and Pedro Martinez Munoa.
b. Ferdinando Colan and Alhambra da Fonseca.
c. Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque.
d. Henry da Bruscia and Eduardo da Estabano.
e. Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.
b. divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal. -
ANSWER The Treaty of Tordesillas
a. divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between the English and the
French.
b. divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal.
c. gave the English the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.
d. gave the French the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.
e. ended the Hundred Years War.
, c. Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas. - ANSWER Which of the following
accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed?
a. Pizarro and the Aztecs; de Soto and the Incas.
b. Magellan and the Incas; Albuquerque and the Iroquois.
c. Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas.
d. de Soto and the Aztecs; Cortés and the Incas.
e. de Soto and the Incas; Cortés and the Aztecs.
d. supposed to be protected by the Spanish. - ANSWER Under the encomienda system,
New World natives were
a. forced to accept Islam.
b. permitted local autonomy.
c. subjected to exploitation and harsh treatment by the Dutch.
d. supposed to be protected by the Spanish.
e. taken to Spain to be used as laborers.
c. Encroahments by the British and Dutch East India companies. - ANSWER Portuguese
domination of the spice trade was ended by
a. Attacks by Mughal ships
b. the circumnavigating voyage of Balboa.
c. Encroahments by the British and Dutch East India companies.
d. rival Hindu merchants from the Ganges plain.
e. a new outbreak of the Black Death.
c. tomatoes and tobacco were introduced into the Americas from Europe. - ANSWER All
of the following were part of the Columbian Exchange except
a. cows and horses were introduced into the Western hemisphere.
b. potatoes and corn were introduced into Europe from the Americas.
D. Invitations sent from India. - ANSWER Europeans embarked on expansionist voyages
for all of the following reasons except
a. the potential for economic gain through trade.
b. the desire to spread Christianity
c. confidence arising from improved cartography, navigational methods, and ship
designs.
d. Invitations sent from India.
e. Growing knowledge of wind patterns in the Atlantic Ocean.
c. Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque. - ANSWER The Portuguese captains
who first landed at Calicut in India and seized the port of Malacca in modern-day
Malaysia were, respectively,
a. Jaime Cardose and Pedro Martinez Munoa.
b. Ferdinando Colan and Alhambra da Fonseca.
c. Vasco da Gama and Afonso de Albuquerque.
d. Henry da Bruscia and Eduardo da Estabano.
e. Juan Montillo and Jorge Sikada Maio.
b. divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal. -
ANSWER The Treaty of Tordesillas
a. divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between the English and the
French.
b. divided the "new" areas discovered by Europeans between Spain and Portugal.
c. gave the English the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.
d. gave the French the eastern route around the Cape of Good Hope.
e. ended the Hundred Years War.
, c. Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas. - ANSWER Which of the following
accurately pairs Spanish conquistadors with the New World empires they destroyed?
a. Pizarro and the Aztecs; de Soto and the Incas.
b. Magellan and the Incas; Albuquerque and the Iroquois.
c. Cortés and the Aztecs; Pizarro and the Incas.
d. de Soto and the Aztecs; Cortés and the Incas.
e. de Soto and the Incas; Cortés and the Aztecs.
d. supposed to be protected by the Spanish. - ANSWER Under the encomienda system,
New World natives were
a. forced to accept Islam.
b. permitted local autonomy.
c. subjected to exploitation and harsh treatment by the Dutch.
d. supposed to be protected by the Spanish.
e. taken to Spain to be used as laborers.
c. Encroahments by the British and Dutch East India companies. - ANSWER Portuguese
domination of the spice trade was ended by
a. Attacks by Mughal ships
b. the circumnavigating voyage of Balboa.
c. Encroahments by the British and Dutch East India companies.
d. rival Hindu merchants from the Ganges plain.
e. a new outbreak of the Black Death.
c. tomatoes and tobacco were introduced into the Americas from Europe. - ANSWER All
of the following were part of the Columbian Exchange except
a. cows and horses were introduced into the Western hemisphere.
b. potatoes and corn were introduced into Europe from the Americas.
