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Example Question #281 : Political History
The voyages of __________ contributed to the emergence of Portugal as a leading maritime and colonial power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Vasco de Gama
Henry Hudson
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese explorer whose voyage to India from 1497-1499 contributed to the emergence of Portugal as a leading maritime and colonial power in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Due to their exploration and settlement of southern Asia in the fifteenth century, Portugal would maintain an Asian empire well into the nineteenth century.
Example Question #282 : Political History
Hernan Cortes conquered the __________.
Aztec Empire
Mayan Empire
Olmec Empire
Incan Empire
Iroquois Confederacy
Aztec Empire
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish conquistador in the sixteenth century who led the Spanish conquest of modern-day Mexico. His expedition to Mexico, in 1519, conquered the Aztec Empire and committed widespread atrocities in the former Aztec territory.
Example Question #15 : Empires, Colonialism, Imperialism, Decolonization, And Globalization 1450 To 1750
The Spanish were able to easily conquer the Incan and Aztec Empires for all of the following reasons except __________.
alliances with rival tribes
technological superiority
the inadvertent spread of new diseases
the destabilizing impact of Christian missionaries
fortunate timing
the destabilizing impact of Christian missionaries
All of these reasons contributed to the conquests of the Spanish conquistadors except the destabilizing impact of Christian missionaries. The expeditions of Cortes (in Mexico) and Pizarro (in Peru) were the first Spaniards that those native people encountered and so there cannot have been any prior contact between Christian missionaries and the native population.
Example Question #283 : Political History
Akbar the Great is the most famous ruler of the __________.
Mughal Empire
Ayyubid Empire
Parthian Empire
Ottoman Empire
Seljuk Empire
Mughal Empire
Akbar the Great is the most famous ruler of the Mughal Empire on the Indian subcontinent. Akbar the Great is remembered for his successful military campaigns and the expansion of Mughal territory across virtually the whole of the subcontinent. He is also associated with religious tolerance and for appointing ministers on the basis of merit, rather than nepotism.
Example Question #284 : Political History
Francisco Pizarro conquered the __________.
Assyrian Empire
Incan Empire
Mayan Empire
Aztec Empire
Iroquois Confederacy
Incan Empire
Francisco Pizarro was one of the Spanish conquistadors who conquered much of South America in the early sixteenth century. Pizarro led a series of expeditions to try and conquer the Inca Empire in the 1520s and was finally successful in the early 1530s when he captured the Incan emperor and had him executed. Pizarro is responsible for establishing Spanish control over the modern-day country of Peru.
Example Question #285 : Political History
Unlike in South America, where colonies tended to be established directly by the crown, European colonies in North America tended to be established by __________.
religious dissidents
exiled convicts
foreign mercenaries
parliamentary and legislative bodies
private investors
private investors
In South America the vast majority of colonies were established directly by the Spanish or Portuguese crowns. However, European colonies in North America were generally established by private investors and joint-stock companies. Some of the differences between the colonial experiences of settlers in North America and settlers in South America can be explained by this distinction.
Example Question #286 : Political History
Sonni Ali is notable for expanding the territory of the __________.
Assyrian Empire
Kongo Empire
Umayyad Caliphate
Ethiopian Empire
Songhai Empire
Songhai Empire
Sonni Ali ruled the Songhai Kingdom in West Africa for several decades in the second-half of the fifteenth century. Sonni Ali was a successful military commander and it was during his reign that the Songhai Empire captured the wealthy cities of Timbuktu and Djenne.
Example Question #287 : Political History
The Philippine city of Manila was conquered by the __________ in the sixteenth century.
Japanese
Portuguese
Dutch
Spanish
Chinese
Spanish
The Spanish conquest of the Philippines took place in the sixteenth century and culminated with the conquest of Manila by the forces of Lopez de Legaspi in 1571. The Philippines would continue to be controlled by the Spanish until it was ceded to the United States after the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Example Question #288 : Political History
The Kingdom of Kongo was located in __________.
Central Africa
North Africa
South Africa
East Africa
the Middle East
Central Africa
The Kingdom of Kongo was located in Central Africa. The Kongolese Kingdom existed as an independent state from the late fourteenth century until the late nineteenth century. It had extensive interaction with the Portuguese Empire, and was a Portuguese vassal for parts of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Example Question #289 : Political History
Modern-day Mexico City is built on the same location as the capital of the ______________.
Incan Empire
Toltec civilization
Mayan civilization
Olmec civilization
Aztec Empire
Aztec Empire
Modern-day Mexico City sits on the same site as Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
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