Question 1

What is indentured servitude?

Accepted Answer

A contract where a servant worked to pay off the fee to travel to the Americas

(not as bad as slavery, but close)

Question 2

What was chattel slavery?

Accepted Answer

A system where individuals were considered property that could be bought and sold

Question 3

What were the Asante Empire and the Kingdom of the Kongo?

Accepted Answer

Two African states that increased their power by trading in the Colombian Exchange

Question 4

What was Japan doing during the Colombian Exchange?

Accepted Answer

Limiting outside trade, expelling foreigners, and isolating themselves from most of the world

Question 5

What did China do after Zheng He's voyages?

Accepted Answer

Restricted trade, prohibited the building of large ships, and rebuilt the Great Wall

(all of these were in attempt to rebuild China's culture after lots of foreign influence)

Question 6

What was the East India Company?

Accepted Answer

An English Company founded to participate in the East Indian spice trade

Question 7

How did Britain start to take control of much of India?

Accepted Answer

While Muslims and Hindus fought each other in India, the British increased their power until they controlled lots of land

(previously, the Mughals were too powerful for the British, limiting their land)

Question 8

What was New Spain?

Accepted Answer

The colony formed in the Americas after Hernan Cortes overthrew the Aztecs

Question 9

What did the Spanish do the Aztec land?

Accepted Answer

Destroyed Tenochtitlan and built their own capital, Mexico City

(also melted the Aztecs' gold and sent it back home)

Question 10

Who were Francisco Pizarro and Atahualpa?

Accepted Answer

Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador, captured the Incan ruler, Atahualpa, and promised to let him go if Atahualpa filled a room with gold

(Atahualpa complied, but Pizarro killed him anyways)

Question 11

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Accepted Answer

A treaty where Spain and Portugal divided the Americas between the two

Question 12

What was the 7-years'-war?

Accepted Answer

A global conflict between France and Britain, that also impacted the Spanish Empire

Britain ended up kicking France out of India, eventually making way for the East India Company to essentially take control of India

(France and Britain also had a conflict in North America called the French and Indian war)

Question 13

What is the encomienda system?

Accepted Answer

A labor system in the Americas where indigenous people paid tributes to a landowner for protection

(similar to the European manorial and feudal systems; often brutal and coercive)

Question 14

What was the hacienda system?

Accepted Answer

A labor system designed to keep workers in debt tied to one piece of land

(less brutal than encomienda, but still horrible; similar to the feudal system in Europe)

Question 15

What was the Middle Passage?

Accepted Answer

The name given to the journey across the Atlantic, performed by African Slaves

(it was the middle part of the captives' journey)

Question 16

What were the effects of the slave trade on Africa?

Accepted Answer

Continually decreasing population

Disrupted family organization (more men were taken than women)

Mixed culture, that created multiracial people

4.4 - Maritime Empires, AP World History: Modern Flashcards