COM 101 Chapter 14 Answers

1. Describe the most important voyages of exploration undertaken by Europeans during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What made them important?

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An Age of Exploration and Expansion

2. Describe the role Muslim merchants played in the expansion of the world trade network at the end of the fifteenth century.

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An Age of Exploration and Expansion

3. What are the pros and cons of European discoveries and conquests of the Americas? How do historians view this process in a wider context?

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The Conquest of the “New World”

4. Compare and contrast Portuguese and Spanish conquests of the Americas. Include a discussion of their different ways of governing their empires.

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The Conquest of the “New World”

5. Discuss the protagonists of the Portuguese explorations, including the factors that led them to undertake their journeys and to ultimately take over the spice trade.

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The Portuguese Maritime Empire

6. How did traditional African practices of slavery change after the arrival of Europeans and their entry into the slave trade? Give specific examples.

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The Slave Trade

7. Discuss the consequences of the voyages of Columbus. Cite the positive and negative results of his exploration of the Americas.

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The Voyages The Spanish Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?

8. Discuss the European impact, positive and negative, on the native populations of Southeast Asia.

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Southeast Asia in the Era of the Spice Trade

9. How did Spanish methods of dealing with their new territories in America affect the native populations there?

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The Conquest of the “New World”

10. Discuss the impact of Islam on the native populations of Southeast Asia.

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Southeast Asia in the Era of the Spice Trade

11. How, and to what extent, did the arrival of Europeans influence the scope and conduct of the spice trade?

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An Age of Exploration and Expansion The Portuguese Maritime Empire

12. Compare and contrast the impact of the European colonial nations in the Americas with the impact of the West in Southeast Asia. What are the similarities and what are the differences?

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Southeast Asia in the Era of the Spice Trade

13. Why was it Western Europe rather than China, the Muslim world, or some other non-Western society who effected the globalization era of the sixteenth century?

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entire Chapter

14. Did "globalization" really begin in the sixteenth century? Why and/or why not? Give specific examples.

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entire Chapter

15. What were the possible factors that allowed some non-western societies to resist or cope with the arrival of Westerners better than others? Give examples.

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entire Chapter

16. How did the arrival of Islam change the previously Buddhist and Hindu societies of Southeast Asia?

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Religion and Kingship

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).

17. Paramesvara

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Islam and the Spice Trade

18. Malacca

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Islam and the Spice Trade

19. Prince Henry the Navigator

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The Portuguese Maritime Empire

20. Vasco da Gama

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Chapter Introduction The Means En Route to India Chapter Summary

21. Songhai

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The Empire of Songhai

22. sternpost rudder

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The Means

23. compass

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The Means

24. New Spain

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The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

25. creoles

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The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

26. The Tears of the Indians

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Opposing Viewpoints: The March of Civilization

27. Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange

28. Vasco Nunez de Balboa

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Opposing Viewpoints: The March of Civilization

29. Sonni Ali

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The Empire of Songhai

30. encomienda

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Exploiting the Riches of the Americas

31. Askia Mohammed

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The Empire of Songhai

32. manioc

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The Effects of the Slave Trade

33. Dom Joao III

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A Plea Between Friends

34. astrolabe

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The Means

35. conquistadors

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The Conquests A New Player: Europe

36. portolani

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The Means

37. caravels

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The Means

38. viceroy

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The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

39. Afonso da Albuquerque

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The Search for Spices The Portuguese Conquest of Malacca

40. Christopher Columbus

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The Voyages The Spanish Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?

41. Triangular Trade

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Sources of Slaves

42. Pedro Cabral

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The Voyages

43. Hispaniola

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The Voyages

44. Treaty of Tordesillas

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The Spanish

45. Amerigo Vespucci

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The Voyages

46. Hernan Cortes

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The Conquests

47. Moctezuma

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The Conquests

48. Francisco Pizarro

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The Conquests

49. encomienda system

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Exploiting the Riches of the Americas

50. Bartolome de Las Casas

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Exploiting the Riches of the Americas

51. Ferdinand Magellan

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The Spanish

52. Batavia

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The Arrival of the West

53. Dutch East India Company

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The Arrival of the West

54. the VOC

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The Arrival of the West

55. Goa

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The Search for Spices

56. Spice Islands

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The Search for Spices

57. Cape of Good Hope

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En route to India

58. Kilwa, Sofala, and Mombasa

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En route to India

59. Mwene Mutapa

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Europeans in Africa

60. Boers

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Europeans in Africa

61. Afrikaans

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Europeans in Africa

62. peninsulares

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The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

63. Buddhist style of kingship

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Religion and Kingship

64. roaring forties

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The English and the Dutch

65. Catholic nunneries

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The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

66. Middle Passage

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The Middle Passage

67. Slave Coast

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Political and Social Structures in a Changing Continent

68. Tlaxcallan

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The Conquests

69. Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

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The State and the Church in Colonial Latin America

70. Gonzalo Fernandez de Ovieda

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Opposing Viewpoints: The March of Civilization

71. Javanese model of kingship

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Religion and Kingship

72. Who allegedly contended that “Christians and spices” were the primary motives of the explorations of the fifteenth century?

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Christopher Columbus

b.

Vasco da Gama

c.

Leo Africanus

d.

Sonni Ali

e.

Marco Polo

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The Means

73. What was one of the earliest West African states to become Muslim?

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The Zanj

b.

Zimbabwe

c.

Axum

d.

Mali

e.

Kush

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d

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p. 356

74. The charts containing detailed information on coastal contours, distances between ports, and compass readings were called

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astrolabes.

b.

caravels.

c.

portolani.

d.

horoscopes.

e.

sea charts.

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