164 i PERIOD 4 Global Interactions (c. 1450–c. 1750)
❯ Review Questions
- European explorations
 (A) were dependent on European technological
 innovation
 (B) promoted harmony among the nations of
 Europe
 (C) sought to break established trade
 monopolies
 (D) concentrated on the Americas
 (E) interfered with the growth of capitalism
- The Columbian Exchange
 (A) improved the nutrition of American indig-
 enous peoples
 (B) did not involve Africa
 (C) drew the world’s oceans into an active trade
 network
 (D) produced both positive and adverse effects
 on world population
 (E) did not affect East Asia
- The English and French engaged in rivalries over
 territory in
 (A) Indonesia
 (B) China
 (C) North America
 (D) East Africa
 (E) western Africa
- The region with the greatest number of colonial
 and commercial competitors was
 (A) the western coast of Africa
 (B) Indonesia
 (C) the Caribbean islands
 (D) the Philippines
 (E) Japan
 5. The Netherlands established commercial or
 colonial interests in all of the following areas
 EXCEPT
 (A) southern Africa
 (B) South America
 (C) western Africa
 (D) North America
 (E) Japan
 6. Which of the following regions sustained trade
 patterns that were the most different from the
 others before the eighteenth century?
 (A) Japan
 (B) Indonesia
 (C) China
 (D) Mughal India
 (E) Russia
 7. Which crop arrived in the Americas as part of
 the Columbian Exchange and later became a key
 product of the Americas?
 (A) Tobacco
 (B) Sugar
 (C) Sweet potatoes
 (D) Bananas
 (E) Manioc
 8. As a result of hemispheric trade between 1450
 and 1750,
 (A) the entire globe was linked by numerous
 active trade routes
 (B) European governments lost influence to the
 power of the great trading companies
 (C) the work of African artisans found new
 markets
 (D) the Ottoman Empire strengthened its hold
 on European territory
 (E) European wealth and commercial domi-
 nance increased
