AP EURO: REVIEW QUESTIONS 14

  1. What were the three primary motives for the Age of Exploration/Age of European expansion?
  1. What was the relationship between “the New Monarchs” and the Age of Exploration?
  1. What three of the means which allowed for European exploration/expansion?
  1. What country and whose leadership began the Age of Exploration?
  1. Who did Columbus sail for, when did he sail, and what was his purpose?
  1. What was the Aztec capital and who was the last Aztec Empire?
  1. Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs?
  1. Where was the Inca Empire located and what was the capital?
  1. Who was the Spanish Conqueror who conquered the Inca Empire?
  1. What was the encomienda system?
  1. What was the significance of Bartolome de las Casas?
  1. Define – viceroy, audiencias
  1. What two European countries began the Age of Exploration?
  1. What product in South America and the Caribbean caused the growth of African slavery?
  1. What were three effects of the slave trade on Africa itself?
  1. What country gradually squeezed out the Portuguese and gained control of the spice trade?
  1. What two countries battled for colonial control of India in the 18th century?
  1. Who was Sir Robert Clive?
  1. What did the Europeans want from China?
  1. What was a source of friction and conflict between the Japanese and Westerners?
  1. Where is the West Indies?
  1. What country seized control of the New Netherlands and what was it renamed?
  1. North American and West Indian colonies were supposed to do what two things?
  1. What is another name for the so-called price revolution in the 16th century?
  1. What was one negative and one positive of the price revolution?
  1. Overseas trade benefitted what countries?
  1. Explain joint-stock trading companies
  1. What new institutions were created to replace the Medici and the Fuggers?
  1. What was the name of the economic philosophy which dominated the 17th century?
  1. What were three economic beliefs of this economic philosophy?
  1. What was the impact of European expansion on the native American civilizations?
  1. Define – mestizos; define – mulattoes
  1. What Catholic group was most heavily involved in missionary work in China and Japan?
  1. What was the reciprocal importation and exportation of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas called?
  1. What were three things brought from Europe to the New World?
  1. What were three brought from the New World to Europe?