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Focus Questions for Chapter 14 and 15: Exploration and Expansion
The Search for Spices 14.1
1. What factors encouraged European exploration?
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How did Portuguese exploration lead to the creation of a trading empire?
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How did Columbus influence the Treaty of Tordesillas?
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What was the significance of Balboa’s discovery?
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Turbulent Centuries in Africa 14.2
5. Why did Portugal establish a presence mainly along the African coast?
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How did African slave trade expand?
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What caused some African states to grow?
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How did European presence in Africa expand?
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European Footholds in South and Southeast Asia 14.3
9. How did Portuguese control the spice trade?
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10. How did the Dutch build up a strong presence in Southeast Asia?
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11. Why was Spain able to conquer the Philippines easily?
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12. How did Britain gain control of India?
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Encounters in East Asia 14.4
13. Why did Ming China demand that Europeans pay for goods with gold and silver?
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14. Why did Korea become isolated?
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15. Why did the Tokugawas turn against Europeans?
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Chapter 15: The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe and the Americas
Conquest in the Americas 15.1
16. How did Spanish conquistadors treat the Tainos?
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17. What impact did the Aztecs’ religious beliefs have on Cortes’s approach to Tenochtitlan?
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18. What factors encouraged Spanish success in Peru?
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19. In what ways did Native Americans resist Europeans?
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Spanish and Portuguese Colonies in the Americas 15.2
20. What was the encomienda system?
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21. What was the role of the Church in colonial education?
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22. What was Brazil’s economy based on?
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Struggle for North America 15.3
23. Why did French settlers abandon farming in favor of fur trapping and trading?
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24. For what reasons were the 13 English colonies established?
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25. Why was the French and Indian War fought?
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The Atlantic Slave trade 15.4
26. How did the Triangle of trade affect colonial economies?
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27. How did enslaved Africans resist captivity?
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28. How did the slave trade affect Africans?
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Effects of Global Contact 15.5
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29. Why did the global population explode?
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30. How did the “putting-out” system work?
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31. How did economic changes affect different Europeans?
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