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Question 2

A major obstacle for increased profit in medieval European trade with the Far East was

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A)  a fear of China, Japan, and India.
B)  religious; Christian merchants were too devout to do business with non-Christians.
C)  Venetian and Muslim middlemen.
D)  a lack of demand for imported goods.
E)  wars in Asia.

Question 3

Copyhold refers to which of the following?

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A)  apprentice contracts
B)  shopkeepers' accounts
C)  shipping inventories
D)  mining
E)  land tenure

Question 4

Which of the following is a match?

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A)  Leif Erikson and Mexico
B)  Vasco da Gama and Japan
C)  Cortés and California
D)  Balboa and Peru
E)  Magellan's crew and circumnavigation of the earth

Question 5

Portugal was particularly well-suited for overseas expansion for all the following reasons EXCEPT

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A)  the country possessed a long coastline and being hemmed in by Castile, it looked outward to sea for new opportunities.
B)  its large nobility looked for new lands to conquer.
C)  it already was Northern Europe's closest supplier of subtropical products like cork, fruit, wine, and olive oil.
D)  a sunny climate encouraged ocean travel.
E)  its monarchy sought to continue the Reconquista into a more general war against the Muslims.

Question 6

The significant expansion of trade and commerce in the early modern period was fueled by

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A)  the price revolution.
B)  the growth in population.
C)  higher incomes for merchants, landlords, and some peasants.
D)  the growth of the state.
E)  all of the above

Question 7

The main cause of the price revolution in sixteenth-century Europe, according to the text, was

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A)  silver imported from new Spanish conquests in the Americas.
B)  the growing population of Europe.
C)  discovery of new silver mines in Bohemia.
D)  the periodic reappearance of the plague.
E)  the import of Montezuma's gold into Spain.

Question 8

In the seventeenth century, the only region where the majority of the population lived in the cities was

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A)  northern Italian cities.
B)  the Netherlands.
C)  France.
D)  England.
E)  the Rhineland.

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