Chapter 15 Review Packet

CHAPTER 15 REVIEW PACKET

**Starting with chapter 15 all review packets MUST be hand written. Please label and number all parts of your work. Key terms should be underlined with the definition following.

Key Terms 1. African diaspora 2. Banda Islands (pron. BAHN-dah) 3. Benin (pron. be-NEEN) 4. British/Dutch East India companies 5. Cartaz (pron. car-TAHZ) 6. Dahomey (pron. dah-HOH-mee) 7. daimyo (pron. DIME-yoh) 8. Hurons (pron. HYOOR-ons) 9. Indian Ocean commercial network 10. Little Ice Age 11. Magellan, Ferdinand (pron. mah-GELL-an) 12. Manila 13. Middle Passage 14. piece of eight 15. Potosí (pron. poh-toh-SEE) 16. samurai (pron. SAH-moo-rie) 17. shogun (pron. SHOW-gun) 18. “silver drain” 19. Spanish Philippines 20. Tokugawa shogunate (pron. toekoo- GOW-ah SHOW-gun-at) 21. trading post empire

Review Questions Answer each of the following questions in two or more sentences. 1. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce? 2. To what extent did the Portuguese realize their own goals in the Indian Ocean? 3. How did the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British initiatives in Asia differ from one another? 4. To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the societies they encountered in Asia? 5. What was the world historical importance of the silver trade? 6. Describe the impact of the fur trade on North American native societies. 7. How did the North American and Siberian fur trades differ from each other? What did they have in common? 8. What was distinctive about the Atlantic slave trade? What did it share with other patterns of slave owning and slave trading? 9. What explains the rise of the Atlantic slave trade? 10. What roles did Europeans and Africans play in the unfolding of the Atlantic slave trade? 11. In what different ways did the Atlantic slave trade transform African societies? 12. In what specific ways did trade foster change in the world of the early modern era? 13. To what extent did Europeans transform earlier patterns of commerce, and in what ways did they assimilate into those older patterns? 14. Describe and account for the different outcomes of European expansion in the Americas (see Chapter 14), Africa, and Asia. 15. How should we distribute the moral responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade? Is this a task appropriate for historians? 16. What lasting legacies of early modern globalization are evident in the early twenty-first century? Pay particular attention to the legacies of the slave trade.