Question

1. What trade goods from Asia were most sought after by Europeans?

		new food products like chocolate and tomatoes
		gold and silver
		spices, silk, and cotton
		prized dyes such as indigo and cochineal

2. How did the Archaic Era Indians differ from the Paleo-Indians?

		Both men and women hunted large mammals together in small bands.
		They developed a written language system.
		They were the first to use the spearheads now known as Clovis points.
		They learned how to collect and plant seeds.

3. The demand for African slaves was fueled by the high profits being made from plantations on Portuguese colonies that grew and processed __________.

		sugar
		indigo
		tobacco
		cotton

4. Christopher Columbus planned to find a more direct route to Asia by __________.

		traveling around the southern tip of Africa
		taking an overland trade route across the Middle East
		sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean
		finding a Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean

5. What argument was used to justify the enslavement of the Guanche of the Canary Islands by the Portuguese?

		The Pope described them as "infidels and savages."
		The Guanche were experienced sugar planters.
		The Portuguese found them easy to capture.
		The Guanche were immune to diseases such as smallpox and measles.

Answer 1

1. What trade goods from Asia were most sought after by Europeans?

The most sought after goods from Asia by the Europeans were spices as black pepper and cinnamon from India, they also traded silk from China and cotton from India. Other goods that they traded was porcelain, and tea.

Answer. Option 3. spices, silk and cotton.

2. Paleo-Indians we're followed by Archiac Era Indians. Both were Hunter gatherers. The major difference between both is that while Paleo-Indians we're highly nomadic and hunted for most of the year, the Archiac Era Indians collected seeds and grew plants. Thus, they were more sedentary than Paleo-Indians.

Answer. Option 4. They learned how to collect and plant seeds.

3. The slave trade was on a high demand due to the profits earned by the sugar plantations. Sugar plantations needed significant number of labor and hard work. This demand of hard working labor and profit in the sugar cultivation fueled slave trade.

Answer. Option 1. Sugar.

4. Christopher Columbus was determined to find a way sailing west from Europe to Asia across Atlantic ocean, and this planned voyage made him accidentally discover the Americas.

Answer. Option 3. Sailing west across the Atlantic ocean.

5. Option 1. The Pope described them as "infidels and savages".