Author: Bob

Global Exploration & Trade
TEST Prescriptives
Directions:  Please answer each question/prompt with complete sentences (when appropriate).  
	You have the following options:
	--Answer the questions/prompts fully and use to show mastery (for ½ the points you missed on the test credited back)
	--Answer the questions/prompts fully to restudy for the retake of the test (higher retake scores replace lower scores)

1.) When European nations made contact with the East during the Crusades, what nations profited from the trading routes 
		that were established?
2.) Where was Prince Henry from, and how (specifically!) did he help to further overseas exploration?
3.) What Eastern goods were considered especially valuable by Europeans during the 1400s? 
4.) What was significant about the voyages of Bartolomeu Dias?
5.) Where was Vasco de Gama from, and what did he do for that country that was significant?
6.) What two countries agreed to “The Line of Demarcation” and what did the Line delineate (separate?) 
7.) From what country did the East India Company originate, and what had the Company accomplished by the 1700s?
8.) What was the main economic goal of the settlers of New France?
9.) Who conquered the Aztec empire?  Briefly describe how it was accomplished.
10.)	 Why did Europeans stop using Native American labor, and what advantages did Europeans believe Africans had 
	 over the Native American workforce that they had been using?
11.)	 What purpose(s) did joint-stock companies formed in the 1500s and 1600s serve?
12.)	 Please describe the paths (and landing points) that Christopher Columbus took on his first & second voyages.
13.)	 What was the encomienda system, and what did it provide for New Spain?
14.) 	What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries?
15.) 	Describe how the first enslaved Africans were imported to the Americas.
16.)	 Name several significant items that were carried west across the Atlantic due to the Columbian Exchange.
	 Name several significant items that were carried east across the Atlantic due to the Columbian Exchange.
17.) 	Describe the name and location of the Dutch settlements in North America.

18.) 	Describe the conditions experienced by slaves on the “Middle Passage” from Africa to the Americas.
19.) 	Which places benefited from all three triangular trade routes?
20.) 	What goods did England import from the Americas?  What did England export to the Americas?
21.)	 What did the West Indies export both to England and to New England, New York, and Philadelphia?
22.) 	What goods did New England, Philadelphia, and New York export to both the West Indies and Spain, Portugal, the 
	 Azores, and Madeira Islands?
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23.) 	The slave trade in Africa had existed long before Europeans began exporting slaves to the Americas.  Describe what 
	 happened during the seventh century that increased the slave trade.
24.) 	What advantages did the Spanish have in conquering the Aztecs?
	 Which had the MOST impact, and WHY, in your humble opinion?
25.)	 Describe the assumptions Europeans made that they felt justified the encomienda system of Native American labor.
26.) 	What were two major results of the loss of Native American lives to disease?
27.) 	Describe how slavery in African and Muslim societies differed from slavery in the Americas.
28.) 	What was the economic theory of mercantilism?  (how could nations increase their wealth?)
29.) 	What were some of the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on Africa?
30.)	 How did the United States and the Soviet Union cooperate in space technology?
31.) 	What tool is used to observe the most remote regions of the universe?  Who designed it?
32.)	 Explain the reasons why the Internet was originally designed.

33.) 	What are the characteristics of developed nations?
	 What are the characteristics of emerging nations?
34.) 	What is the “global economy?”
35.) 	Please explain the concept of “sustainable development.”
36.) Name & describe one major cooperative space project?
37.)	 What is the advantage of using silicon chips in computers?
38.)	 What impact has technology had on the world's economy?
39.) 	Describe the reasons why the World Trade Organization was established.
40.)	 What are several effects of the use of satellites?
41.) 	What impact has the Internet had on modern society?
42.)	 What might be a negative consequence resulting from the green revolution?
43.) 	What negative economic impact was felt by industrialized nations because of global development?
44.) 	In what ways have NASA and the European space agency cooperated?
45.)	 If you had to categorize the original purpose of the Internet, what category would you assign to it?
46.)	 Explain the term “genetic engineering.”
47.) 	Please describe the process of cloning.
48.) 	What impact did the "green revolution" hope to have?
49.) How many nations fought in the first Gulf War? Against what country?  Why did they decide to go to war?	
50.) 	Describe how financial interactions are accomplished in the “global economy.”
51.) Explain the process that scientists believe is damaging the atmosphere's ozone layer.
52.) 	What are the principles of free trade?
53.)	 What is a multinational corporation?