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AP World History: Modern · Transoceanic Interconnections Quiz

Go up against Tordesillas, Zheng He's fleets and the Columbian Exchange, with 300 AP-style questions waiting to see what you really know. Think you can sort the caravels from the galleons without blinking?

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  1. Which of the following BEST describes the primary economic motivation driving European monarchs to sponsor oceanic exploration in the late 15th century?
  2. The Portuguese development of the caravel in the 15th century was significant primarily because it
  3. Which navigational instrument, refined by Portuguese sailors in the 15th century, allowed navigators to determine their latitude by measuring the altitude of the sun or stars above the horizon?
  4. Vasco da Gama's 1498 voyage to Calicut was historically significant because it
  5. The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) was negotiated primarily to
  6. Which of the following BEST explains why Hernán Cortés was able to defeat the much larger Aztec Empire with a relatively small Spanish force?
  7. Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in the 1530s was facilitated MOST directly by which of the following?
  8. The Spanish colonial labor system known as the encomienda granted conquistadors and settlers the right to
  9. Zheng He's massive naval expeditions (1405–1433) and the subsequent Ming dynasty decision to ban maritime trade are BEST contrasted to argue that
  10. Ferdinand Magellan's expedition (1519–1522) is MOST significant in world history because it

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