Scarcity of labor in the Americas led the Spanish and Portuguese colonizers to:
import slaves from Africa.
CORRECT!
establish a wage-earning system for the Indians.
institute policies that protected the Indians.
encourage English and Dutch settlers emigrate to the New World.
all of these choices are correct.
Portuguese exploration of the African coast was inspired and supported by:
Prince Henry the Navigator.
CORRECT!
Bortholomew Diaz.
Emperor Charles V.
Ferdinand and Isabella.
John Cabot.
The major cause of the growing weakness of Spain and Portugal after 1600 was the:
failure to find productive investments with profits from New World colonies.
CORRECT!
drain placed on Iberia’s finances by colonization efforts in the Americas.
invasion of the Iberian Peninsula by France.
deflationary impact of bullion imports.
successful opposition by Amerindians and Africans.
All of the following helped cause the Age of European Exploration EXCEPT:
the Mughals’ continued encroachment into Central Europe.
CORRECT!
technological advances making long sea voyages possible.
the desire to spread Christianity to native Indian peoples.
European demand for eastern spices.
Ottoman expansion threatening access to the goods of the East.
In 1571 the Spanish and Turkish fought for control of the Mediterranean at the battle of:
Lepanto.
CORRECT!!
the Dardanelles.
Gibraltar.
Trafalgar.
Haifa.
Which BEST explains the decline of Spanish power in the 17c?
Foolish monarchs and an uncertain flow of treasure from the New World
CORRECT!!
An unproductive and wasteful nobility
Foreign policy reversals.
The decline of the importation of raw materials.
The Catholic Church no longer supported the merchant class in Spain
Why did the initiative in early conquest and exploration pass to northern European nations in the later 16c?
The Dutch and the British improved the design of oceanic vessels, producing faster ships than their Catholic rivals.
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Spain and Portugal were defeated in a critical war with the Ottoman Empire.
Famine and disease disastrously reduced the population of the Iberian Peninsula after 1588.
The French and Danish business infrastructures were more developed than in the Iberian Peninsula countries.
The Spanish defeat of the English Armada cut England off from further advance in Europe and forced English attention to foreign conquest.
At its height (ca. 1580), the Spanish empire of Philip II included all of the following EXCEPT:
Bohemia.
CORRECT!!
Portugal.
Milan.
the Free Country of Burgundy.
Silesia.
For England, the primary result of the 16c wars with Spain was that it:
assured her national independence and promoted an intense national spirit.
CORRECT!!
made her Europe’s strongest power.
forced England to tolerate her Catholic minority.
resulted in the immediate death of its main colonial rival, Philip II of Spain.
bankrupted her treasury, forcing Elizabeth to become more and more dependent on parliament.
[Quiz originally from here]