POP QUIZ 11/29/21

Based on the information provided by this map, which statement about Constantinople is accurate?

• Africans traded more goods in Constantinople than in any other area.

• Gold was the primary commodity that China sent to Constantinople.

• Constantinople was an important trading center between Europe and Asia.

• Constantinople was a city located on the Atlantic Ocean

The Sacking of Constantinople in 1453 will result in what lasting historical development?

• The Ottoman Empire will unite the other Islamic Gunpowder Empires.

• Europeans will begin navigating the Atlantic Ocean seeking better access to Asia.

• Europe will experience the rebirth of classic Greek and Roman ideas.

• The Roman Catholic Church will lose power as individuals question church teachings.

Portuguese actions in the passage best illustrate which of the following historical development in the early modern era?

• Religious rivalries between states led to the establishment of new maritime empires.

• Spain's establishment of new trading-post empires in the Indian Ocean.

• Portuguese desire to acquire knowledge and redefine tributary relationships.

• New treaties motivated the Portuguese to begin hostilities in pursuit of economic gain.

“agreed to split the world ” most clearly reflects which of the following developments of the time period?

• the increased use of gunpowder, cannons, and armed trade to establish large empires.

• transoceanic maritime exploration occurred in this period.

• European states established new maritime empires based on treaties and Papal authority.

• the incorporation of foreign populations into European societies.

Which was an important direct effect of the processes reflected in the document?

• Asian states adopted restrictive or isolationist trade policies.

• Existing trade networks in the Indian Ocean continued to flourish.

• Slavery in Africa continued in its traditional forms.

• Peasant labor declined in many regions.

Which answer best supports the author's connection to Spain and Portuguese rule?

• European kingdoms such as Spain or Portugal were well organized and supported by a Roman Catholic ideology.

• Europeans has developed immunities to the diseases spread among the indigenous people with devastating effects.

• Europeans had access to gunpowder and firearms, which were much more advanced that the weapons of the Americas.

• Kings such as the Spanish monarch gained enormous wealth from their colonial holdings that allowed them to project power.

Which answer best reflects a positive effect the Columbian connection had on the indigenous tribes of the Americas?

• The integration of Africans as a result of the Atlantic slave trade.

• Indigenous tribes were introduced to new domesticated livestock including pigs and horses.

• The Europeans established a race-based hierarchy that granted privileges by race.

• New institutions replaced indigenous tribal cultures.

Which answer best reflects a long term positive effect of the Columbian Exchange on Afro-Eurasians?

• American crops, such as potatoes, became stable ingredients to everyday diets.

• West African populations declined as adolescent men were forcibly transported to the Americas.

• Land based trade declined across Central Asia as new products were brought by sea.

• Economic opportunities drove bitter rivalries between empires.

How was the formation of the states shown in the map different from the formation of states before 1450?

• The states before the Early Modern Age were deeply divided by powerful religious ideologies.

• The Early Modern Era states all developed peaceful methods to legitimize their political power.

• All of the Early Modern states above were able to marshal resources to form professional armies.

• Every state of the early Modern Age expanded with the help of gunpowder and firearms.

A major cause of the rivalries among most of the gunpowder states depicted on this map was

• the struggle between them to dominate maritime trade routes.

• the division of Islam into competing sects and differences of interpretation.

• the Ottoman Empire making peace with the Christian Byzantine Empire.

• their significant loss of land to Christian empires of Western Europe.