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| 300695238 | The initiative for Western exploration and conquest came from the kingdom of: | Portugal | 0 | |
| 300695239 | The Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator did what? | Direct a series of expeditions along the African coast and also outward to the Azores. | 1 | |
| 300695240 | What did Vaco da Gama do? | He rounded the cape of Good Hope and eventually sailed to India. | 2 | |
| 300695241 | After 1450, the West... | Controlled a growing volume of international trade. | 3 | |
| 300695242 | The first Portuguese fleet to reach India sailed there in: | 1498 | 4 | |
| 300695243 | The Portuguese trading port and fortress established in India was: | Goa | 5 | |
| 300695244 | Why did the initiative in early conquest and exploration pass to northern European nations in the later 16th century? | The Dutch and British improved the design of oceanic vessels, producing faster ships than their Catholic rivals. | 6 | |
| 300695245 | The chief positive European contribution to the Americas as part of the "Colombian Exchange" was: | large domesticated animals | 7 | |
| 300695246 | What describes the impact of European conquest on the population of Native Americans? | Native American population was devastated by introduction of previously unknown European diseases. | 8 | |
| 300695247 | Who did the Spanish defeat at the battle of Lepanto? | the British | 9 | |
| 300695248 | What accounts for the Spanish failure to hold a position of dominance in world trade? | Spain's internal economy and banking system were not sufficient to accommodate the new bullion from the new world, and the Iberian nation lacked significant manufacturing capability. | 10 | |
| 300695249 | Where were the nations of the core region of the global trade network located? | western Europe | 11 | |
| 300695250 | Which of the following areas did not have a predominantly coercive labor system? | northwestern Europe | 12 | |
| 300695251 | What describes the relationship between Asian civilizations and the world commercial network of the 16th and 17th centuries? | China depended on extensive government regulation to keep European activities in check, Asian civilizations had ample political strength and economic sophistication to avoid dependent status, and East Asia constituted the civilization that remained most fully and consciously external to the world economy. | 13 | |
| 300695252 | How was Japanese participation in the global trade network? | The Japanese did display some openness to Christian missions and they were also fascinated by Western advances in gunnery and shipping. | 14 | |
| 300695253 | Who established the first Spanish colony on the American mainland? | Vasco de Balboa | 15 | |
| 300695254 | Why was the Portuguese colony of Angola exceptional? | The Portuguese pressed inland in Angola instead of simply establishing coastal fortresses. | 16 | |
| 300695255 | What impact did the Seven Years' War have on French colonial possessions? | The French lost their colonies in India to the British. | 17 |
