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What is the name for the goods and ideas exchanged between the old and new worlds?
a. Northwest Passage
b. Middle Passage
c. Columbian Exchange
d. Exchange Rate
c. Columbian Exchange
What was the primary European “weapon” responsible for the deaths of so many Native American Indians?
a. diseases
b. cannons
c. rifles
d. horses
a. diseases
The Dutch East India Company was a chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies until the British took power.
a. True
b. False
b. False
The East India Company had exclusive trade rights in India and eventually came to control the country as Mogul power decreased?
a. True
b. False
a. True
Who was the founder of the Mogul Empire?
a. Babur
b. Jahangir
c. Akbar
d. Shah Jahan
a. Babur
Which explorer’s voyage west initiated a great cultural exchange between Europe and the Americas?
a. Jacque Cartier
b. Christopher Columbus
c. Hernando De Soto
d. Sir Walter Raleigh
b. Christopher Columbus
Which European nation was the first to establish colonies in the Americas?
a. Portugal
b. Spain
c. England
d. France
b. Spain
Portugal’s primary objective in voyaging to Asia was:
a. establishing trade relations along coastlines from Africa to the Orient
b. annexing territory for creating colonies
c. military conquests
d. converting native peoples to Christianity
a. establishing trade relations along coastlines from Africa to the Orient
He spread the Mogul Empire across all of India, but is also known for his reign of religious tolerance?
a. Babur
b. Akbar
c. Shah Jahan
d. Aurangzeb
b. Akbar
The most elite soldiers for the Ottomans were called _______.
a. monks
b. janissaries
c. viziers
d. safavids
b. janissaries
What is the term for a person sent by the Catholic Church to convert native peoples to Christianity?
a. jannisary
b. grand vizier
c. martyr
d. missionary
d. missionary
Which invention allowed for improved naval navigation, spurring exploration across oceans?
a. the printing press
b. the steel plow
c. the astrolabe
d. the cannon
c. the astrolabe
What is the term for the route which brought captured Africans from Africa to the Americas?
a. The Northwest Passage
b. The Triangle Trade
c. The Middle Passage
d. The Slave Trade
c. The Middle Passage
Which of the four classes of Mogul society was most prominent, after the aristocrats (of course)?
a. peasants
b. artisans
c. merchants
d. slaves
c. merchants
Which empire was defeated by the Muslim Turks and supplanted by the Ottoman Empire?
a. Roman Empire
b. Egyptian Empire
c. Harrapan Empire
d. Byzantine Empire
d. Byzantine Empire
An economic system in which a nation increases its wealth by exporting more than it imports, which spawned many to create colonies to supply raw materials and purchase finished goods.
a. free trade
b. mercantilism
c. nationalism
d. triangle trade
b. mercantilism
During the age of exploration, several European monarchs sought out a Northwest Passage, which refers to:
a. the overland route that traders traveled between Europe and Asia
b. Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage around the world
c. the English Channel between England and France
d. a trade route that would lead west from Europe to Asia by water
d. a trade route that would lead west from Europe to Asia by water
Which Portuguese explorer led the first naval expedition from Europe to India, opening an important commercial sea route?
a. Vasco da Gama
b. Christopher Columbus
c. Amerigo Vespucci
d. Francisco Pizarro
a. Vasco da Gama
During the reign of Shah Jahan, some of finest monuments of Mogul architecture were built, including the _________.
a. Parthenon
b. Colusseum
c. Taj Majahal
d. Hagia Sophia
c. Taj Majahal
What is the term for the prime minister of the Ottoman empire, second in line to the sultan.
a. monk
b. grand vizier
c. chancellor
d. bishop
b. grand vizier
What Spanish conquistador destroyed the Inca civilization of Peru?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Sir Walter Raleigh
c. Francisco Pizarro
d. Samuel De Champlain
c. Francisco Pizarro
Which sailor made a 1497 voyage and confirmed for Europeans that Columbus had found, not the Indies, but a new continent?
a. John Cabot
b. Francisco Pizarro
c. Ferdinand Magellan
d. Giovanni Da Verrazano
a. John Cabot
Who was the Spanish soldier who conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico in 1521?
a. Hernando Cortez
b. Christopher Columbus
c. Hernando De Soto
d. Francisco Pizarro
a. Hernando Cortez
Which 1494 Treaty was an agreement between Spain and Portugal to divide the lands of the western hemisphere and moved the line of demarcation to the west?
a. Treaty of Versailles
b. Treaty of Dubai
c. Treaty of Tordesillas
c. Treaty of Tordesillas
The Shi’ite Muslim Dynasty that ruled in Persia from the 16 th -18 th centuries missing the cultures of Persians, Ottomans, and Arabs.
a. Safavids
b. Suniis
c. Songhai
d. Mogul
a. Safavids