ap euro 3.4-3.5

The expansion of the transatlantic slave trade in the 1700s is best explained by which of the following developments?

Growth in European demand for New World agricultural products

Which of the following best explains European states' ability to dominate the world trade system in the 1700s?

Europe's continued superiority in naval and maritime technology

Which of the following best explains the increase in food supply in Europe in the 1700s?

The transfer of plant species from the Americas to Europe

The choice of subject matter in the two paintings is best explained by which of the following historical developments during the artist's life?

The growth of a wealthy trading elite in the Netherlands

Concern over which of the following best explains Steen's decision to portray The Dissolute Household as shown in image 2 ?

The effects of Dutch material prosperity on morality in the Netherlands

Which of the following best explains why Steen produced paintings like the one in image 1 for wealthy Dutch merchants?

The merchants wished to show that their prosperity did not compromise their moral beliefs.

Which of the following cities dominated European trade and finance in the early seventeenth century?

Amsterdam

The overall trend in sugar consumption represented in the chart contributed LEAST to which of the following?

The increase in rural migration to urban areas

Cook's observations concerning the material culture of the inhabitants of Australia most clearly reflect the influence of which of the following developments in Europe?

The expanded availability and use of consumer goods

By the early seventeenth century, which of the following European nations was the greatest commercial power in Europe?

Netherlands

Between 1650 and 1750, which of the following was the most valuable export from the British and French colonies of the New World to Europe?

sugar

Which of the following developments in the Dutch Republic most directly encouraged the collection of paintings such as those described in the table?

Prosperity as a result of innovations in banking and finance

Which of the following most accurately describes the political system of the Dutch republic of the seventeenth century?

Rule by wealthy merchants

Which of the following best describes the impact that the economic and political processes described in the passages would have in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

Spain would fall behind England, France, and the Netherlands in economic development.