Complete the following quiz to review your knowledge from this learning pathway. This quiz will help students undertaking this course for credit to prepare for their test.

• After 1450 the West:
  • controlled an increasing volume of international trade.
    • Correct. Well done!
  • began to dominate in trade with India.
    • Incorrect. Substantial trade with India did not develop until the 1600s. Review the first two activities in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • struggled to keep up with the Ottoman Empire in the development of global trade.
    • Incorrect. We’ll learn about the Ottoman Empire in the next (and later) learning pathways. Review the first two activities in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • declined in influence and fell behind the Orient.
    • Incorrect. Review the first two activities in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• The initiative for Western exploration and conquest came from:
  • Spain.
    • Incorrect. No, although Spain played a substantial role in trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Review the first two activities and the activity on Spain and Portugal in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The Dutch Republic.
    • Incorrect. No, although the Dutch came to have an important role in global exchange during this period. Review the first two activities and the activity on Spain and Portugal in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • England
    • Incorrect. No, although the English came to have an important role in global exchange during this period. Review the first two activities and the activity on Spain and Portugal in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • Portugal.
    • Correct. Well done!
• The Middle Passage was the name for:
  • The route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade.
    • Correct. Well done!
  • The only safe way to navigate through the Caribbean, discovered in 1604.
    • Incorrect. Review the lectures on the slave trade to help you find the correct answer.
  • The ocean passage between Europe and India controlled by the Dutch East India Company.
    • Incorrect. Review the lectures on the slave trade to help you find the correct answer.
  • None of the above answers are correct.
    • Incorrect. Review the lectures on the slave trade to help you find the correct answer.
• Why did the initiative in early conquest and exploration pass from Spain and Portugal to northern European nations in the later 16th century?
  • The plague disastrously reduced the population of the Iberian peninsula after 1588.
    • Incorrect.
  • The Spanish defeat of England led to the latter pursuing easier conquests outside of Europe.
    • Incorrect. Review the first two activities in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The Dutch and British built ships with better designs, that could travel faster than those of the Spanish and Portuguese.
    • Correct. Well done!
  • All of the above answers are correct.
    • Incorrect. Review the first two activities in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• New Spain was the name given to Spanish possessions in the New World. In South America, most of these territories were in:
  • Brazil.
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on ‘Demographic shifts’ in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • Argentina.
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on ‘Demographic shifts’ in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
  • The Viceroyalty of Peru.
    • Correct. Well done!
  • All of the above answers are correct.
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on ‘Demographic shifts’ in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.

Indicate whether the following statements are true or false:

• The Atlantic World generally refers to the interactions between peoples and rulers around the rim of the Atlantic Ocean – that is Europe, North America, India, South America and Africa.
  • True
    • Incorrect. Check a map – which of these countries in not in the Atlantic Ocean?
  • False
    • Correct. Well done!
• During this period, African and Asian kingdoms conducted business with European merchants on a roughly equal footing.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on European colonization in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• Many millions died from disease and many more from war as a result of the Colombian Exchange.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the activity on European colonization in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.
• Spices, slaves, sugar, pottery, coffee, tea and calicoes were important products traded during this period.
  • True
    • Correct. Well done!
  • False
    • Incorrect. Review the first two activities in this learning pathway to help you find the correct answer.