APWH Modern: Unit 4 Review (1450-1750)

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After the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century, East Asian societies

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largely controlled their own affairs until the nineteenth century.

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In the sixteenth century, the most important American crop introduced into Africa was

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manioc

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One of the factors that made African slavery different from the varieties practiced elsewhere was that

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African law did not recognize private property and thus slaves served as a measure of personal wealth.

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Vasco da Gama played a central role in the collapse of the Swahili city-states.

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the Swahili city-states.

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In the long term, the Columbian exchange

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increased world population because of the spread of new food crops.

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Portuguese dominance of Indian Ocean trade was dependent on their ability to

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force merchant ships to pay trade duties (tariffs) to them.

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The center of Spanish commercial activity in Asia was

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Manila

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Which destabilizing influence did the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires face in the period 1450-1750? Options: a growing influx of silver through trade with the West leading to widespread inflation, revived threats from Asian nomads, Western siege and occupation of their capital cities, bubonic plague outbreaks that reduced their urban populations

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a growing influx of silver through trade with the West leading to widespread inflation

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Which New World commodity was of greatest value to the Portuguese monarchy in the early settlement of Brazil?

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sugar

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What commodity was mined in Japan as well as Latin America that changed the global economy? Options: Silver, Gold, Iron, Tin

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Silver