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| 3322421693 | The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was | Vasco da gama | 0 | |
| 3322421694 | During the early modern era, which of the following non-European peoples explored the Indian Ocean? | Ming emperors of China and Ottoman mariners | 1 | |
| 3322421695 | Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration? | were: exploitations of fresh lands and resources, establishing maritime trade routes to the markets of Asia, and expanding the boundaries of Christianity | 2 | |
| 3322421696 | The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was | portugal | 3 | |
| 3322421697 | The Portuguese viewed the Atlantic Islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of | Sugarcane | 4 | |
| 3322421698 | Which of the following was not a reason for the European interest in finding a maritime trade route? | Direct trade routes to Asia, trade goods like spices, gold,ivory, slaves, etc., finding a way to avoid the Muslims in trade | 5 | |
| 3322421699 | The reconquista came to an end when | The Muslim kingdom of Granada fell to Spanish Christian forces | 6 | |
| 3322421700 | Lateen sails had the advantage of | being triangular, maneuverable, and able to catch winds from the side as well as from behind | 7 | |
| 3322421701 | The astrolabe was designed to measure | Latitude | 8 | |
| 3322421702 | Which of the following were both Chinese inventions? | Compass and sternpost rudder | 9 | |
| 3322421703 | Wind wheels | were present in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. wind blew from different directions depending on latitude | 10 | |
| 3322421704 | The volta do mar | "Return through the sea" A technique that took mariners well out of their way to avoid opposing currents. Much safer, more reliable, and faster. | 11 | |
| 3322421705 | Which of the following men conquered the Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the west African coast? | Prince Henry of Portugal | 12 | |
| 3322421706 | The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was | Bartolemeu Dias | 13 | |
| 3322421707 | The profitable merchandise that Vasco da Gama purchased in India was made up of | Pepper and Cinnamon | 14 | |
| 3322421708 | Christopher Columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on | The wide reading of literature on geography that suggested that sailing west from Europe to Asian markets would be profitable | 15 | |
| 3322421709 | When Columbus reached this area, he sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of China | Cuba | 16 | |
| 3322421710 | On 12 October 1492, Columbus made landfall on an Island called | Guanahani. Renamed it San Salvador/Watling Island | 17 | |
| 3322421711 | The first European to sight the Pacific Ocean was | Vasco Nunez, a Spanish military commander | 18 | |
| 3322421712 | Which of these early explorers were not Portuguese? | were: vasco da gama, Bartolomeu Dias, and Ferdinand Magellan | 19 | |
| 3322421713 | On his circumnavigation of the world, Ferdinand Magellan died in | The Philippine Islands | 20 | |
| 3322421714 | The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by | Ferdinand Magellan | 21 | |
| 3322421715 | Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the | English | 22 | |
| 3322421716 | The explorer who led three expeditions into the Pacific in the 18th century was | Captain James cook | 23 | |
| 3322421717 | The English explorer James Cook died in a fight in | Hawaii | 24 | |
| 3322421718 | In their attempt to control the spice trade in the Indian Ocean, the Europeans during the period between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries | Built trading posts along the Indian Ocean basin and channeled/taxed trade | 25 | |
| 3322421719 | The Portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to | Control Indian Ocean trade by forcing all merchant ships to purchase safe-conduct passes and present them at Portuguese trading posts | 26 | |
| 3322421720 | Hormuz, Gao, and Melaka were all seized in the early 1500s by | Afonso d'Aborqueque | 27 | |
| 3322421721 | The Portuguese lost control of the port of Melaka in 1641 when it fell to the | Netherlands | 28 | |
| 3322421722 | Which of the following was not a Portuguese trading post? | was: Sao Jorge da mina, Hormuz, Gao, Calicut, Macau, Melaka, ternate | 29 | |
| 3322421723 | In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because | Portuguese forces didn't have enough vessels to enforce their power | 30 | |
| 3322421724 | Which of the following was not an advantage that the English and Dutch had over the Portuguese? | were: sailed faster, cheaper, and more powerful ships conducted trade through joint stock companies | 31 | |
| 3322421725 | the VOC was the | United East India Company, controlled by Dutch | 32 | |
| 3322421726 | The Philippines fell to | Spanish | 33 | |
| 3322421727 | The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was | Manila | 34 | |
| 3322421728 | Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population | Massacred Chinese merchants by the thousands in at least six major eruptions of violence | 35 | |
| 3322421729 | Jan Pieterszoon Coen was responsible for | founding Batavia on the island of Java to serve as an entrepot for the VOC, wanted to monopolize spice production and trade, thus enabling Dutch merchants to reap enormous profits in European markets | 36 | |
| 3322421730 | The Dutch policy in Indonesia was | suppression. coen brought his naval power and then forced them to deliver spices only to VOC merchants | 37 | |
| 3322421731 | THe most prosperous country in Europe in the seventeenth century was | The Netherlands | 38 | |
| 3322421732 | Russian territorial expansion into Northern Eurasia began in | 1581 | 39 | |
| 3322421733 | Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for | Fur | 40 | |
| 3322421734 | The country that finished the Seven Years' War with global hegemony was | England | 41 | |
| 3322421735 | In the long term, the Columbian exchange | Led to the global diffusion of plants, food crops, animals, human populations, and disease pathogens. Also led to the wiping out of some areas but caused growth as wel | 42 | |
| 3322421736 | From 1500 to 1800 the largest contingent of migrants consisted of | Enslaved Africans transported involuntarily to South America, North America, and the Caribbean | 43 | |
| 3322421737 | By 1750, all parts of the world participated in a global trade network in which European's played dominant roles except: | Australia | 44 |
