AP World Unit 4

Question 1

Cartography

Answer 1

mapmaking

Question 2

Maritime Empires

Answer 2

Empires based on sea travel

Question 3

Astrological Charts

Answer 3

Map of the stars and galaxies

Question 4

Columbus

Answer 4

credited with “discovering the New World”, famous for his voyages across the Atlantic

Question 5

Mercantilism

Answer 5

buy as few as possible from other countries, minimize the flow of precious metals out of the country

Question 6

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 6

first European monarch to sponsor seafaring expeditions

Question 7

Trading Post Empire

Answer 7

a series of forts stretching from Hormuz to Goa, established a monopoly

Question 8

Magellan

Answer 8

voyage that became the first to circumnavigate the globe

Question 10

Galleons

Answer 10

heavily armed Spanish ships

Question 11

Northwest Passage

Answer 11

a route through or around North America that would lead to East Asia

Question 12

Quebec

Answer 12

town and trading post established by the French

Question 13

New France

Answer 13

the French colony in North America

Question 14

Jamestown

Answer 14

a settlement built by the English on the James River

Question 15

New Amsterdam

Answer 15

a community settled by the Dutch

Question 16

Conquistadors

Answer 16

Spanish soldiers

Question 17

Smallpox

Answer 17

disease the Spanish soldiers brought with them

Question 18

Transatlantic slave trade

Answer 18

Africans being captured and sold

Question 19

Cash crops

Answer 19

grown for sale rather that subsistence

Question 20

African Diaspora

Answer 20

dispersion of Africans out of Africa

Question 21

Creole

Answer 21

West Africans combination of European colonizers’ languages

Question 22

Chattel Slavery

Answer 22

a system in which individuals were considered as property to be bought and sold

Question 23

Astante Empire/Kongo

Answer 23

African states growing due to the expansion of maritime trading networks

Question 24

Pizarro

Answer 24

under his rule, his crew attacked the Inca and captured their ruler

Question 25

Atahualpa

Answer 25

ruler of the Incas

Question 26

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 26

Spain and Portugal's division of the Americas between the both of them

Question 27

Encomienda

Answer 27

system to gain access to gold and other resources of the Americas

Question 28

Hacienda System

Answer 28

using coerced labor to work the field

Question 29

Middle Passage

Answer 29

the grueling journey across the Atlantic

Question 30

Price Revolution

Answer 30

high rate of inflation that occurred in the 16th and early 17th century

Question 31

Join-stock companies

Answer 31

owned by investors who bought stock for shares in them

Question 32

British East India Company and Dutch East India Company

Answer 32

joint-stock company between the Dutch, English and French

Question 33

Triangular trade

Answer 33

a complex Atlantic trading system, had three segments

Question 34

Syncretism

Answer 34

combining of different religious beliefs and practices

Question 35

Vodun

Answer 35

means "spirit" or "deity"

Question 36

Metacom's War

Answer 36

a result of English colonists using underhand tactics in their continuing pressure to control Native American lands

Question 37

Nzinga

Answer 37

ruler of Ndongo

Question 38

Pugachev Rebellion

Answer 38

caused an increase in oppression of the peasants in return for the support of the nobles to help avoid future revolts

Question 39

Pueblo Revolt

Answer 39

against Spain, two indigenous groups fought colonizers who tried to force religious conversions

Question 40

Maroon wars

Answer 40

slaves fighting to gain freedom

Question 41

Queen Nanny

Answer 41

an escaped slaves, united all the maroons of the island

Question 42

Glorious Revolution

Answer 42

strengthened the power of Parliament, passed a law forbidding Catholics to rule England

Question 43

Peninsulares

Answer 43

those who were born on the Iberian peninsula

Question 44

Criollos (Creoles)

Answer 44

those of European ancestry who were born in the Americas

Question 45

Castas

Answer 45

people of mixed-race ancestry

Question 46

Mestizos

Answer 46

those of mixed European and indigenous ancestry

Question 47

Mulattoes

Answer 47

those of mixed European and African ancestry