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Choose ONE of the two following prompts to answer:

1. Identify and explain a reason why Europeans began to explore the world in the 1400s.

2. Briefly describe how either China or Japan reacted to the arrival of the Europeans during the period 1400-1700.

Dutch East India Company
Series of land trade routes connecting China to Europe through the Middle East.
Lord Macartney
First European explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Macau
Wealthy and powerful Muslim state that ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and northern India.
Tokugawa Shogunate
Strategically located city in Indonesia; both Portugal and the Netherlands conquered it to take control of the spice trade.
Ferdinand Magellan
Portuguese missionary who adopted Chinese customs in an effort to convert upper class Chinese to Catholicism.
isolationism
British diplomat who, by refusing to kowtow to the Chinese emperor, ruined the potential trade relationship between Britain and China in the 1790s.
Mughal Empire
National policy of noninvolvement with other countries or international affairs.
Matteo Ricci
Japanese military government that ended years of civil conflict, centralized power, and banned foreigners.
Silk Road
Territory off the southern coast of China that was colonized and administered by Portugal.
Malacca
Government-chartered company created to manage the Netherlands' colonies.
Which of these was NOT a reason that Europeans started to sponsor overseas exploration during the 1400s?
Overpopulation in Europe
Converting other cultures to Christianity
The chance at fame
Becoming wealthy
Which choice lists two technologies that enabled Europeans to begin exploring overseas?
Antibiotics and quinine
Guns and metal armor
Encomiendas and plantations
Astrolabe and caravel
Which Portuguese royal sponsored the country's first expeditions down the African coastline?
Alfonso I
Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand I
Henry VIII
Under the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas, what part of the world was granted to Spain?
Brazil and all of the Old World
All of the American continent west of Brazil
The Philippines, Indonesia, and the Spice Islands
Coastal India
What private business was established to manage the colonial territory of the Netherlands?
Dutch East India Company
British East India Company
Dittler Bros. Printing
Amazon
Following Ferdinand Magellan's travel there, which country conquered and colonized the islands now known as The Philippines?
Great Britain
Spain
France
Portugal
Which answer best reflects the reason Portugal could not create a land empire in India?
Japan successfully conquered India before Portugal
European technology was inferior to Indian technology
The Mughal Empire was too large and powerful for Portugal to defeat
Wars in Europe prevented the Portuguese from dedicating enough resources to India
How did the actions of Lord Macartney permanently impact the Britain-China relationship?
His actions led to a complete British conquest of China
His actions did nothing to change the relationship
His actions made the two formal allies
His actions effectively ended trading between the two
Which of these was the ruling clan that started the long period of Japanese isolation known as sakoku?
Tokugawa
Edo
Mitsubishi
Nobununga
What was the single largest contributing factor to the massive decline of native populations following the arrival of the Europeans in the Americas?
Enslavement of natives on encomiendas
Horse trampling
Superior weaponry
Epidemic disease
The Aztec Empire was conquered and its capital Tenochtitlan was burnt by which Spaniard?
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizarro
Vasco de Gama
Walter Raleigh
The Inca Empire was conquered by which Spaniard?
Walter Raleigh
Hernan Cortes
Francisco Pizzaro
Vasco de Gama
Through the encomienda system, which group was first forced into labor in New Spain?
Africans
English prisoners of war
Lower-class Spaniards
Native Americans
"The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians."

- Bartolome de las Casas

This quote reflects las Casas' deep criticisms of what aspect of Spanish colonization?
Strict control of colonial trade
Forced Native American labor under the encomienda system
Forced conversion of Native Americans to Christianity
Overreliance on American gold and silver exports
Which modern city sits on the same site once occupied by the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan?
Juarez
Lima
Rio de Janeiro
Mexico City