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Which of the following best describes the relationship between China and Japan in the 1600s?
A. Almost no trade at all due to poor political relations and mutual bans on trade
B. Export from Japan to China of high-value manufactured goods and very friendly political relations
C. High-volume trade, with Japan supplying huge quantities of silver even during a troubled political relationship
D. No formal or trading relationship, but frequent Japanese piracy attacks on Chinese trading ships
From the mid-1500s to 1830, the largest group of immigrants to the Americas consisted of
A. tropical Africans sold into slavery.
B. miners, trappers, and artisans.
C. fortune-seekers, workers, and their families.
D. soldiers, royal officials, and missionaries.
What was the leading Russian export that traveled on the Inner Eurasian north-south routes to China, India, Persia, and the Ottoman lands?
A. furs
B. textiles
C. horses
D. almonds
Before 1820, four out of every five females who crossed the Atlantic to America were
A. slaves from Africa.
B. unlikely to live more than about two years.
C. indentured servants.
D. wives or daughters of rich plantation owners.
Which of the following statements about the slave trade is accurate?
A. African slave populations in the Americas, for the most part, quickly began to keep their populations growing through natural reproduction.
B. The typical lifespan of a slave on a tropical plantation was about fifteen years.
C. Many European settlers who opposed slavery set up “maroon societies” to allow their purchased slaves to live in relative freedom.
D. The island of São Tomé was mostly abandoned in part because of the attacks of escaped slaves.
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