AP World History: Chapter 6

The government disavowed any responsibility for the Japanese merchants.

Which of the following describes the Japanese government's treatment of Japanese merchants operating in Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century?

Which of the following experienced a long-held monopoly of the European trade Eastern goods?

Venice

Which of the following describes a difference between how the British East India Company operated in Mughal India and how the Dutch East India Company operated in Indonesia in the seventeenth century?

The British negotiated treaties with local Indian rulers, while the Dutch

established control through conquest and colonization.

How did the Tokugawa shoguns treat Europeans in Japan in the seventeenth century?

They expelled all Europeans except the Dutch, who were allowed to trade at a single site.

The fact that Europeans often had to pay for Asian spices and textiles in cash led to which of the following?

An intense desire for precious metals

The first direct and sustained link between the Americas and Asia was the trade in

silver.

Which of the following was a result of the fur trade in North America in the early modern

period?

The dependence of Native Americans on European trade goods

Which of the following describes a feature of the North American, but not the Russian, fur trade in the early modern period?

Competition between European traders meant that furs were obtained largely through commercial negotiations with the local population.

How did the decision by the Chinese state to require payment of taxes in silver in the 1570s affect the global economy?

The value of silver around the world skyrocketed.

Which of the following statements is true of the West African slave trade?

European merchants waited on board their ships or in fortified port cities to purchase slaves from African merchants and elites.

The number of slaves shipped from Africa to the Americas peaked in the

1700s.

Map 6.4 in the textbook shows that the most common destination(s) in the Americas for West African slaves was (were)

the Caribbean and Brazil.

Which of the following distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history?

Slave status was associated with race.

The emergence of Japan as a major source of silver production in the sixteenth century contributed to

the end of civil war and the unification of Japan.

Which of the following was an incentive for the Portuguese to find a direct sea route to Asia?

To circumvent the Muslim and Venetian monopolies on the trade in Eastern goods

Which of the following describes a feature of commerce in the Indian Ocean basin when

Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498?

Small-scale merchants traded openly.

Which of the following was established as a Spanish colony in the sixteenth century?

The Philippines

Which of the following characterizes how European countries sought to control trade in Asia from 1450 to 1750?

By force of arms and conquest

Which describes the role that Europeans played in the economy of the early modern era?

They were essentially middlemen funneling American silver to Asia.

Which of the following describes an effect of the silver trade on Spain?

It enabled Spanish rulers to pursue military and political ambitions in Europe and the Americas.

Which of the following developments in the early modern period provided incentives for Europeans to go into the fur trade?

The Little Ice Age

Which of the following describes how the fur trade affected indigenous peoples in North America?

It generated warfare among different groups of Native Americans.

What commodity was called soft gold in early modern commerce?

Furs

Which of the following was a consequence of the Atlantic slave trade?

The African diaspora

The origins of the Atlantic slave trade were associated with the

production of sugar.

Which of the following is an example of the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies?

Judicial proceedings were manipulated to generate more criminals to become slaves for the slave trade.

Which of the following describes the experiences of some women in Africa in the early modern era?

A few women had access to political power.

How did the slave trade affect African states?

Some African states depended on revenues from the slave trade.

Map 6.1 in the textbook suggests that the European presence in Asia was connected to

trade.

According to Map 6.1, "Europeans in Asia in the Early Modern Era," which of the

following was the primary goal of Europeans in their relations with Asia?

Trade

According to Map 6.2, "The Global Silver Trade," which of the following is true?

Silver was traded on a truly global scale.

According to Map 6.3, "The North American Fur Trade," what did the fur trade have in common with the silver trade?

Both were practiced on a truly global scale.

According to Map 6.4, "The Transatlantic Slave System," the majority of slaves from West Africa were sent to which of the following?

The West Indies, Caribbean, and Brazil

According to Map 6.4, "The Transatlantic Slave System," many of the slaves transported to North America were from which region in Africa?

Sierra Leone

Why were the Dutch economically successful with the VOC

They received government sponsorships and established a monopoly on trade.

What is capitalism

An economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, where investments, production, and prices are determined by competition in a free market.

Why was the VOC (Dutch) able to operate as a state within a state

They aimed to control commerce and shipping, rather than people and land

What was traded on the Indian Ocean network

A variety of goods including spices, textiles, precious metals, and other agricultural products.

What are maroon societies 

Communities of self-emancipated peoples from African descent that escaped slavery

Who were the Daimyo

They were Japanese feudal lords who lead armies of samurai

What are trading post empires?

Empires aimed to control commerce, not large amounts of land

Diaspora 

Spread of peoples and cultures from their homelands

How did the Spanish establish colonial rule in the Philippines 

Conquest and colonization. Gave gifts/favors to the local Cheifdoms. Used gunpowder weapons and alliances with local nations

How did the Fur trade affect Native American societies 

Turned tribes against each other, 

What is the motto of the silver trade

“Went around the world, and made the world go round”

The largest silver mine was located where?

Potosi, Bolivia

Fur often had what nickname

soft gold

Why was it so easy for Europeans to treat slaves poorly?

Europeans were better able to tolerate their brutal exploitation of Africans,” writes a prominent world historian, “by imagining that these Africans were an inferior race, or better still, not even human

What was the largest maroon society 

Palmarés in Brazil

What was exchanged for slaves

African sellers sought both European and Indian textiles, cowrie shells (widely used as money in West Africa), European metal goods, firearms and gunpowder, tobacco and alcohol, and various decorative items such as beads

Women who married European merchants and built their own trading networks employing female slaves we’re called

Signares

What region was known for its female rulers

Matamba

What kingdom successfully avoided a deep involvement in the slave trade, while diversifying the exports in which it purchased European firearms and other goods

Benin

How was Dahomey involved in the slave trade

The army conducted annual slave raids, and the government soon came to depend on the trade for its essential revenues