Age of Exploration and Colonization Histroy Test
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Name: Rosemarie Nesbitt
Username: rnesbitt
Date: 2/25/07
1. What role did spice play in the Age of Exploration?
-Spices played an important role because during this time foods were bland and tasteless and also spoiled quickly. Spices, which were very expensive, would enhance the flavor of dull tasting foods as well as keep them edible longer.
2. What role did race and class play in Spanish colonies?
In the Spanish colonies race and class played a large role; one’s race or mixed race affected whether or not one could move up in the world through marriage.
3. What were the main ideas of mercantilism?
Mercantilism is an economic theory which holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of wealth instead of how much lad a monarch (or country) held.
4. What role did joint-stock companies play in North American Colonies?
Joint-stock companies helped fun explorative trips to North America. With joint-stock companies, individual investors would buy shares in the company and their money would help finance the business trip.
5. What African nations became powerful in the 1800s, and how did they do so?
Dahomey, Yoruba, and the Zulu were all African nations that became powerful during the 1800s by taking over surrounding tribes and kingdoms with the guns and other trade items the Europeans gave them in exchange for captured slaves.
6. How did India influence other empires in Southeast Asia?
India influenced the rest of Southeast Asia with the religions that were prevalent there (Hinduism and Buddhism) as well as architecture, art, music and other cultural thumbprints.
Essay Questions:
1. What were the goals of different colonies in North America, and how did those goals affect relations with the Native Americans?
In the North American colonies the goals of each colony, and its corresponding mother land, were different.
The Spanish were in search for silver and gold in North and South America, intending to increase their wealth. This effected the Native Americans because the Spanish often demanded tribute from the natives that lived within their colonies as slaves. Not only that but they exploited the native and sent them back to Spain in chains.
The French however were more interested in fur trade. They formed alliances with the Native American’s around their colonies and learned how to survive in the harsh winters of what is now Canada. The French kept good communication and negotiations with the Native Americans.
The Dutch simple wanted to establish trade and continues using their ‘hands off’ approach with the Native Americans they were establishing trade with: they did not wish to get involved in any issues the Natives were having with each other and left the religion card well enough alone.
The English also wanted to establish trade as well as build colonies to escape religious persecution. Colonists also came over to set up their craft or seek their fortune on top of that, some Colonies became wealthy through crops such as tobacco. The intercourse kept with the Native Americans was usually pleasant.
2. How did China, Korea and Japan react to the arrival of European traders in Asia?
When European traders arrived on the South Eastern coast of China the Chinese resisted the attempts of the Portuguese to open trade communication, considering the foreigners to be barbarians. Their resistance lasted for much of the sixteen- and seventeen-hundreds.
It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that Europe was able to force the Chinese to accept their trade through bigger, better guns and bigger, better ships that crushed China’s fleet. Still, China desperately tried to limit trade with the westerners.
Missionaries, however, were allowed into China and began their work of spreading the word of Christianity and conversion.
Korea was first introduced to westerner by the missionaries that came through the Chinese-Korean border which began in1789. Soon the Missionaries influence increased and, at the same time, more and more ships coming from Europe were landing on Korea’s shores.
Because Korea had been invaded throughout its history, the rulers became nervous about increasing European influences so those leaders spent much of the 1800s trying to isolate Korea by trying to stop the spread of Christianity and refusing to gran European nations trading rights.
These actions earned Korea the nickname, “The Hermit Nation”.
The Japanese, however, had been active in and exploration since the 1400s, there ships anchored and trading just off the shores of China and Korea.
In 1543 the Portuguese traders arrived in Japan, the Spanish, English and Dutch hot on their heels. For nearly sixty years trade passed between Japan and Europe.
In 1603 a new absolutist government called the Shogunate was founded in Japan, they were called the Takagowa Shogunate and they adopted the isolation policy of Korea.
The Takagowa Shogunate issued a strict set of rules that dictate morality, behavior and social roles of Japanese citizens, including the new idea western influences were a threat to their power. All westerners, save the Dutch, are expelled from Japan and nearly all trade is banned.
Not even the missionaries were exempt: Christianity was outlawed and thousands of Christians, Japanese and European alike, are persecuted.
Other laws, such as the Japanese being forbidden to travel abroad and the samurai not allowed to buy any western objects are also fiercely enforced. If one was to break one of these law it was punishable by death.
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Name: Rosemarie Nesbitt
Username: rnesbitt
Date: 2/25/07
1. What role did spice play in the Age of Exploration?
-Spices played an important role because during this time foods were bland and tasteless and also spoiled quickly. Spices, which were very expensive, would enhance the flavor of dull tasting foods as well as keep them edible longer.
2. What role did race and class play in Spanish colonies?
In the Spanish colonies race and class played a large role; one’s race or mixed race affected whether or not one could move up in the world through marriage.
3. What were the main ideas of mercantilism?
Mercantilism is an economic theory which holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of wealth instead of how much lad a monarch (or country) held.
4. What role did joint-stock companies play in North American Colonies?
Joint-stock companies helped fun explorative trips to North America. With joint-stock companies, individual investors would buy shares in the company and their money would help finance the business trip.
5. What African nations became powerful in the 1800s, and how did they do so?
Dahomey, Yoruba, and the Zulu were all African nations that became powerful during the 1800s by taking over surrounding tribes and kingdoms with the guns and other trade items the Europeans gave them in exchange for captured slaves.
6. How did India influence other empires in Southeast Asia?
India influenced the rest of Southeast Asia with the religions that were prevalent there (Hinduism and Buddhism) as well as architecture, art, music and other cultural thumbprints.
Essay Questions:
1. What were the goals of different colonies in North America, and how did those goals affect relations with the Native Americans?
In the North American colonies the goals of each colony, and its corresponding mother land, were different.
The Spanish were in search for silver and gold in North and South America, intending to increase their wealth. This effected the Native Americans because the Spanish often demanded tribute from the natives that lived within their colonies as slaves. Not only that but they exploited the native and sent them back to Spain in chains.
The French however were more interested in fur trade. They formed alliances with the Native American’s around their colonies and learned how to survive in the harsh winters of what is now Canada. The French kept good communication and negotiations with the Native Americans.
The Dutch simple wanted to establish trade and continues using their ‘hands off’ approach with the Native Americans they were establishing trade with: they did not wish to get involved in any issues the Natives were having with each other and left the religion card well enough alone.
The English also wanted to establish trade as well as build colonies to escape religious persecution. Colonists also came over to set up their craft or seek their fortune on top of that, some Colonies became wealthy through crops such as tobacco. The intercourse kept with the Native Americans was usually pleasant.
2. How did China, Korea and Japan react to the arrival of European traders in Asia?
When European traders arrived on the South Eastern coast of China the Chinese resisted the attempts of the Portuguese to open trade communication, considering the foreigners to be barbarians. Their resistance lasted for much of the sixteen- and seventeen-hundreds.
It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that Europe was able to force the Chinese to accept their trade through bigger, better guns and bigger, better ships that crushed China’s fleet. Still, China desperately tried to limit trade with the westerners.
Missionaries, however, were allowed into China and began their work of spreading the word of Christianity and conversion.
Korea was first introduced to westerner by the missionaries that came through the Chinese-Korean border which began in1789. Soon the Missionaries influence increased and, at the same time, more and more ships coming from Europe were landing on Korea’s shores.
Because Korea had been invaded throughout its history, the rulers became nervous about increasing European influences so those leaders spent much of the 1800s trying to isolate Korea by trying to stop the spread of Christianity and refusing to gran European nations trading rights.
These actions earned Korea the nickname, “The Hermit Nation”.
The Japanese, however, had been active in and exploration since the 1400s, there ships anchored and trading just off the shores of China and Korea.
In 1543 the Portuguese traders arrived in Japan, the Spanish, English and Dutch hot on their heels. For nearly sixty years trade passed between Japan and Europe.
In 1603 a new absolutist government called the Shogunate was founded in Japan, they were called the Takagowa Shogunate and they adopted the isolation policy of Korea.
The Takagowa Shogunate issued a strict set of rules that dictate morality, behavior and social roles of Japanese citizens, including the new idea western influences were a threat to their power. All westerners, save the Dutch, are expelled from Japan and nearly all trade is banned.
Not even the missionaries were exempt: Christianity was outlawed and thousands of Christians, Japanese and European alike, are persecuted.
Other laws, such as the Japanese being forbidden to travel abroad and the samurai not allowed to buy any western objects are also fiercely enforced. If one was to break one of these law it was punishable by death.
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