Chapter 14

What was the motivation behind the Portuguese effort to explore a sea route to the East?

Which region did Europeans encounter when they sailed to India in 1498?

What were some of the products from the East that were in great demand in Europe?

Which European country was able to monopolize the trade in nutmeg, mace, and cloves in the seventeenth century?

What did the Dutch East India Company establish on the island of Taiwan between 1624 and 1662?

Which European power was largely excluded from the rich Spice Islands by the Dutch monopoly?

During the fifteenth century, Europe's population was growing again. Which of the following countries had national monarchies during this time?

Which city largely monopolized the European trade in Eastern goods during the fifteenth century?

What was one of the impetuses for the Portuguese to attempt a sea route to India?

Why did Europeans have a persistent desire for precious metals during this time?

During the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines, which of the following was NOT a feature of their practice?

Which European powers overtook and displaced the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean spice trade in the early seventeenth century?

What was the main reason for the rise of the Dutch and English as European competitors in the spice trade?

Which group of people became an essential element in the Spanish colony's growing economic relationship with China, but faced discriminatory treatment?

What was the main factor that gave birth to a global network of exchange?

What prevented the Spanish from using their silver windfall in a productive fashion?

During the 16th century, which group of people found a hospitable welcome in Japan due to their military technology, shipbuilding skills, geographic knowledge, commercial opportunities, and religious ideas?

What event led to the expulsion of Christian missionaries from Japan and the suppression of Christianity in the early 17th century?

Which European traders were the only ones permitted to trade in Japan during the Tokugawa shogunate?

Which group of merchants continued to operate in the Indian Ocean despite European naval dominance?

Which two factors contributed to the 'General Crisis' in Europe in the seventeenth century?

What did the Tokugawa shoguns do with the silver-generated profits in Japan?

What measures did millions of families in eighteenth-century Japan take to slow down population growth?

What were the foundations for Japan's remarkable nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution?

During the transatlantic journey, what was the overall mortality rate of the Middle Passage?

What was one common act of resistance among enslaved Africans in the Americas?

Where were free communities of former slaves known as maroon societies founded?

Which settlement was the largest maroon society in the seventeenth century?

How were small-scale slave rebellions usually dealt with by slave owners?

What event brought lasting freedom for participants in a full-scale slave revolt?

What was the overall mortality rate during the transatlantic journey of enslaved Africans?

What was one common form of resistance among enslaved Africans in the Americas?

Where were maroon societies founded?

Which settlement was the largest maroon society in the seventeenth century?

During the transatlantic journey, what was the overall mortality rate of the Middle Passage?

What was one common act of resistance among enslaved Africans in the Americas?

What was the main reason for the rise of the Dutch and English as European competitors in the spice trade?

What event brought lasting freedom for participants in a full-scale slave revolt?

How were small-scale slave rebellions usually dealt with by slave owners?