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Unit 4 Test World History H

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When discussing the importance of sugar, tobacco, and silver in this era, all three of our frames matter. But which frame would a good historian find most relevant when discussing these goods?
production and distribution
What two empires in the Americas came to an end once the Columbian Exchange began?
inca and aztec
With the Columbian Exchange, people, things, and ideas moved along expanded ___________, mixing together to create new knowledge systems. What is the best word to fill the blank?
networks
There are many well-known, massive trade routes throughout history. In what way was the Columbian Exchange a "first"?
It was the first sustained connection of the Americas and Afro-Eurasia.
In the centuries following the start of the Columbian Exchange, why did the Atlantic slave trade grow and thrive as much as it did?
Plantations growing sugar, cotton, and other crops made huge profits on the backs of unpaid slave laborers.
How did Afro-Euroasian diseases such as cholera, malaria, and smallpox affect indigenous communities in the Americas?
These diseases were extremely deadly to indigenous Americans, and as a result their population was severely reduced.
Which of the following answers describes the most significant feature of what we call "the first global age"? Choose the best answer.
New exposure to ideas from far around the world
What does historian J.H. Hexter mean when he says most historians are either "lumpers" or "splitters".
Some historians lump together all the information from a period of time to paint one broad picture, while others split things up to look at them separately.
In the Philippines, what made the capital of the tiny state of Tondo - later the huge city of Manila - so profitable for the Spanish conquistadors who captured the region in the late sixteenth century?
The location was a perfect place to trade with the Chinese.
After Europeans first arrived in the Americas, there was one American resource they traded more and more of with China, as a way to buy luxury items for Europeans. What was that American resource?
silver
Why would historians describe the Black Death, the Great Dying, and the Atlantic slaving system as "demographic events"?
Each event significantly changed the number of people living in certain regions.
What was the devshirme system?
It was a system for conscripting boys to become enslaved soldiers.
Which ethnic group ruled the major political states in Asia around 1300?
the mongols
What was the purpose of the Comanche alliance with the Kiowa?
The Comanche needed support in fighting off the Spanish.
How did the Spanish colonizers relate to the Comanche?
they saw them as a problem
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