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1. How did the Japanese respond to Christianity?
They were eager to learn about Christianity
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2. What did Japanese leaders think about Christian missionaries?
Japanese leaders worried about the power of foreign missionaries
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3. Which country tried to find a sea route to the Indies by going west?
Spain
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4. Name the islands where spices came from.
The Spice Islands
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5. Before the Age of Exploration, how did spices get to Europe?
Southeast Asia -\> Muslims traders -\> Italian traders -\> rest of Europe
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6. What causes the disease scurvy?
Lack of vitamin C
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7. What is a weakness of a Mercator projection map?
It makes Greenland look bigger than South America
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8. Why would someone go on a sea voyage to get spices?
Get rich
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9. What was Magellan the first to do?
Circumnavigate the globe
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10. What did Columbus discover?
The West Indies
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11. The Line of Demarcation was designed to keep which two countries from fighting?
Spain and Portugal
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12. What did the Laws of the Indies do?
Outlawed the encomienda system (forced labor from Native Americans)
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13. What made the Laws of the Indies difficult to enforce?
Spain was far away from its colonies
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14. What did Las Casas try to do?
End the enslavement of Native Americans
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15. What did Spain see as being equally important as gaining land?
Winning souls for Christianity
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16. Which navigational device is used to determine direction?
magnetic compass
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17. Which navigational device is used to determine the latitude of a ship (it replaced the astrolabe)?
sextant
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18. Which European country was the first to send ships to India?
Portugal
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19. Why did Europeans want to find a new trading route to Asia?
They wanted to cut out Muslim and Italian middlemen
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20. What are two weaknesses of the magnetic compass?
* Iron on a ship can cause it to give false readings
* It points towards magnetic north not true north
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21. How did India respond to European traders?
They let them build trading posts and forts
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22. How did China respond to European traders?
They tried to isolate themselves from Europeans
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23. Why were the Chinese uninterested in trading with Europeans?
European goods were inferior to Chinese goods
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24. Why was isolation from the West a mistake for East Asian countries?
They didn't learn about advances in military technology
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25. What is name of the country in South America that was controlled by Portugal?
Brazil
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26. Which is another name for China?
The Middle Kingdom
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27. What happened to 95% of the Native Americans in the New World?
They died from European diseases
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28. Why did Europeans have many deadly disease and Native Americans did not?
* Contagious diseases in people evolved from animal diseases
* Indians had not been exposed to contagious diseases because they had no livestock
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29. Why did the Spanish bring Africans to the New World?
To fill the labor shortage
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30. The trade restrictions Spain placed on its colonies is part of which system?
Mercantilism
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31. Were Spanish colonies allowed to trade with each other?
No, they were only allowed to trade with Spain
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32. What is the name of the top level of Spanish society in the colonies?
Peninsulares
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33. The word peon describes the treatment of which group?
Native Americans
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34. What is a viceroy?
Governor of a colony (representative of the king)
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35. How did viceroys get their jobs?
They were appointed by the king
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36. What impact did the gold and silver, brought from the New World, have on Spain?
It caused inflation
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37. What impact did Spain's religious intolerance have on its economy?
It caused educated Jews and Muslims to leave hurting the economy
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38. During the Age of Exploration, what important decision did Japan make that kept it from getting taken over by European countries?
Isolated themselves from foreigners
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conqueror of the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
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conqueror of the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
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leader of the Aztecs
Moctezuma
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leader of the Incas
Atahualpa
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Spanish conquerors
conquistadors
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Indian woman translator
Malinche
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Aztec god
Quetzalcoatl
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capital of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
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Are TOMATOES from the New or Old world?
New World
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Are POTATOES from the New or Old world?
New World
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Is CORN from the New or Old world?
New World
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Is COFFEE from the New or Old world?
Old World
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Is SMALL POX from the New or Old world?
Old World
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Are GRAPES from the New or Old world?
Old World
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Are HORSES from the New or Old world?
Old World
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Is TOBACCO from the New or Old world?
New World