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1. The islands that Europeans called the Spice Islands were the

A. West Indies.

B. Marshall Islands.

C. Moluccas.

D. Philippines.

2. Prince Henry of Portugal welcomed map-makers, also called

A. circumnavigators.

B. cartographers.

C. geographers.

D. navigators.

3. Pope Alexander VI divided the non-European world into two zones with his

A. Line of Demarcation.

B. International Date Line.

C. Tropic of Cancer.

D. Meridian Line.

4. What leader set out with five ships on an expedition that would be the first to sail around the world?

A. Christopher Columbus

B. Vasco de Gama

C. Prince Henry

D. Ferdinand Magellan

5. To sail completely around the world is to __________ it.

A. circumnavigate

B. surround

C. segregate

D. repatriate

6. Who controlled Asian-European trade in the 1400s?

A. the Indians and the Portuguese

B. the Spanish and the Germans

C. the Chinese and the Indians

D. the Arabs and the Italians

7. Africa's southern tip became known as the Cape of

A. Magellan.

B. Dias.

C. Fear.

D. Good Hope.

8. What port did Vasco da Gama first reach in India?

A. Bombay

B. Calicut

C. Ceuta

D. Cape Town

9. What islands did Columbus mistake for the Indies?

A. the Azores

B. the Madeira islands

C. the Moluccas

D. the islands of the Caribbean

10. Magellan renamed the South Sea the

A. Pacific Ocean.

B. Atlantic Ocean.

C. Indian Ocean.

D. Strait of Magellan.

11. Large estates run by an overseer were known as

A. manors.

B. plantations.

C. ranches.

D. monopolies.

12. What African kingdom defeated their rivals, the Denkyera, in the late 1600s?

A. the Ethiopian kingdom

B. the kingdom of Kongo

C. the kingdom of Benin

D. the Asante kingdom

13. Dutch immigrants built the first permanent European settlement in Africa, which was

A. Mombasa.

B. Malindi.

C. Cape Town.

D. Porto-Novo.

14. Dutch farmers in Africa were known as

A. overseers.

B. Boers.

C. missionaries.

D. Malindi.

15. A ruler of the Kongo who opposed the slave trade was

A. Affonso I.

B. Osei Tutu.

C. Mansa Musa.

D. Muhammad Ali.

16. What people were expelled by the Portuguese from the East African trading cities of Mombasa and Malindi?

A. the missionaries

B. the Boers

C. the Arab traders

D. the Italian traders

17. Why did the Portuguese lose out in Africa when the continent was later colonized by European powers?

A. They had not traveled to the interior or established permanent colonies.

B. They had not built strong enough forts in Africa.

C. They had not traded directly with Africans, but had used Arab middlemen.

D. They had not challenged the trade networks of others.

18. In the late 1700s, the almany of Futa Toro forbade the __________ trade there.

A. gold

B. salt

C. slave

D. silver

19. How did the Asante protect themselves from being taken advantage of by European traders?

A. They built an efficient bureaucracy.

B. They developed a huge army.

C. They built a fleet of warships.

D. They played the Europeans against one another.

20. Many Europeans were intrigued by stories of British explorers' search for what?

A. the Kongolese gold mines

B. the source of the Nile

C. Great Zimbabwe

D. the pyramids of Egypt

21. Who ruled much of India when the Portuguese arrived in the Indian Ocean?

A. the Mughal empire

B. the Gupta empire

C. the Mongols

D. the British East India company

22. In 1510, the Portuguese seized what island off of India?

A. Borneo

B. Java

C. Sri Lanka

D. Goa

23. Distant areas under Portuguese control were

A. colonies.

B. outposts.

C. tributary states.

D. plantation

24. The Dutch East India Company had independent powers called __________ powers.

A. native

B. monopolistic

C. sovereign

D. royal

25. What country took over the archipelago of the Philippines?

A. the Netherlands

B. Britain

C. Portugal

D. Spain

26. How did the Portuguese gain the loyalty of local Indian princes?

A. The Portuguese set up schools and built roads.

B. The Portuguese promised to keep other Europeans away.

C. The Portuguese brought them African slaves.

D. The Portuguese fought the Mughal empire for them.

27. When the Portuguese took the East Indies port of Malacca, they killed the city's

A. missionaries.

B. Muslims.

C. Indians.

D. Spanish colonists.

28. The first Europeans to challenge Portuguese control of Asian trade were the

A. Dutch.

B. Spanish.

C. British.

D. French.

29. The Dutch held onto a trading empire in __________ until the 1900s.

A. India

B. Indonesia

C. the Philippines

D. China

30. What did the Spanish ship to the Philippines from Mexico and Peru?

A. sugar

B. silver

C. slaves

D. gold

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