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GHIST 102 midterm Practice Questions Solved100% Correct| Latest Update 2024-25
As trade and commercial interaction increased between Europe, Africa, and South and East
Asia, which European power was the first to strongly challenge the Portuguese in Indian Ocean
commerce?
a. English
b. Dutch
c. Spanish
d. French
e. Russians - ✔✔b
The Portuguese's motive for seeking an all-water route to Asia was to
a. establish colonies in the East Indies
b. wrestle control of Australia from England
c. Christianize Japan and Korea
d. challenge the emerging power of the Dutch
e. Better compete with the Muslim intermediaries who controlled the land routes through
western Asia and Africa - ✔✔e
After rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama referred to what source to guide him
from the East African coast to the western coast of India?
a. Arabic charts and navigational guides
b. charts used by Zheng He
c. Greek maps translated into Latin
d. Charts designed by Henry the Navigator
e. Descriptions of Marco Polo - ✔✔a
,Although the Portuguese were considered rude and unfit to trade with, what gave them an
edge establishing themselves in the Indian Ocean?
a. Impressive gifts to various leaders
b. Ports they docked at that were subject to Christian rulers
c. ship-mounted cannons
d. Byzantine aid
e. Promises to convert to Islam in return for trade - ✔✔c
Which of the following was NOT a cause for the decline of the Portuguese position in the Indian
Ocean?
a. Islamic nations in Africa united and drove out the Portuguese from the Indian Ocean and
Africa
b. the british allied with safavid iran and took the port of Hormuz
c. a local uprising drove the portuguese from the fortifications of Fort Jesus
d. Dutch merchants developed more efficient business and advanced shipping
e. other european ships, carrying cannons, challenged the portuguese navies - ✔✔e
the early portuguese search for profits from west africa gold was soon replaced by
a. developing sugar plantations in africa
b. advancing the tea trade
c. trade in exotic foods from africa
d. the slave trade
e. lumber exports from africas interior - ✔✔d
the status of mughal india as the most powerful state in south asia in the 16th and 17th
centuries was dependent on all of the following EXCEPT
a. internal trade
, b. suppressing religious diversity
c. participation in Indian Ocean commerce
d. political skill
e. unifying and ethnically diverse people - ✔✔e
In relationships between the countries of Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and China, which of the
following is INCORRECT regarding how these countries recognized each other?
a. Korea emulated Chinese philosophical foundations
b. China recognized Vietnam as a civilized state
c. Japan, to a degree, was influenced by China
d. Vietnam mirrored the philosophies of China
e. China saw Japan as the epitome of civilization - ✔✔e
Mughal India was NOT known for
a. having a great naval presence in the Indian Ocean
b. agricultural production
c. military power
d. artistic simulation from Persian, Turkish, and Central Asian sources
e. cultural tolerance - ✔✔a
How did the chinese view the rest of the world in the 16th century?
a. since the countries outside china were powerful, china would act as a tributary nation
b. the emperor was the "son of heavens" who ruled with the "mandate of heavens" and china
was the center of the world
c. as acceptable barbarians, china would send emissaries to the courts of other nations
d. china sent scholars to other nations to emulate other cultures
e. the emperors made visits to more powerful nations outside china - ✔✔b
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