The first European country to enter into direct trade with the Far East and establish colonies there was:
Portugal.
CORRECT!
Spain.
France.
Britain.
Holland.
The Spanish empire in America was characterized by:
the introduction of a manorial-like system, the encomienda.
CORRECT!
its enormous African slave population.
a large creole class of higher-level colonial government officials.
the relatively large white population.
the exhaustion of the great silver mines of Mexico and Peru by 1550.
Which of the following groups generally benefited from the inflation of the sixteenth century:
merchants.
CORRECT!
landowning nobility.
peasants.
colonial officials.
all of these groups benefited.
Why did the English, Dutch, and French governments fail to begin colonization of the Americas and direct trade with the Orient until more than 100 years after Columbus discovered America?
Domestic troubles and religious controversies delayed organized action.
CORRECT!
Their geographical positions put them at a disadvantage for trans-oceanic movement.
The northern countries lacked suitable ships and the advanced technology to make long voyages.
Western European bankers refused to loan monarchs money for such ventures.
The northerners were slow to abandon their traditional Mediterranean trade routes.
Spain’s expansion in the Americas was made particularly easy by:
the impact of imported diseases on the Indian population.
CORRECT!!
the absence of prior civilizations among the native peoples.
Spain’s leadership in European banking and commerce.
the belief that Europe had much to learn from the religions and customs of other peoples.
competition between Protestant and Catholic missionaries sent out by Spain.
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) granted Portugal the eastern trade route to the Indies as well as Brazil; lands to the west of Brazil were given to:
Spain.
CORRECT!!
England.
Italy.
France.
Holland.
The technological innovations in maritime technology by the 1500s were important because:
they made it possible for Europeans to sail anywhere.
CORRECT!!
they made it cheaper to sail.
they increased the number of slaved needed to sail the ships.
they required literate sailors.
all of these choices are correct.
By the 16th century the center of commercial activity had shifted from the Mediterranean to the:
Atlantic Ocean.
CORRECT!!
Red Sea.
Indian Ocean.
Baltic Sea.
North Sea.
[Quiz originally from here]