Chapter 17 Expanding Horizons   1. Making money was one reason European countries wanted to trade directly with Asian spice dealers. What was the other?     A) Arab merchants were unable to reach Europe with their shipments.     B) Church leaders wanted to expand Christianity.     C) Renaissance thinkers wanted to know more about Eastern philosophy.     D) Merchants wanted to try out the astrolabe, a new invention.   2. The first European explorer to find his way around the southern tip of Africa was ____________     A) Prince Henry the Navigator.     B) Vasco da Gama.     C) Bartholomeu Dias.     D) Christopher Columbus.   3. How many voyages did Columbus make trying to prove that he had discovered a new route to Asia?     A) seven     B) four     C) three     D) two   4. Which of these ideas did Magellan's circumnavigation prove true?     A) Earth's oceans are connected.     B) Earth is much larger than anyone had believed.     C) Earth is a globe.     D) all of the above   5. Who was Montezuma II?     A) a conquistador     B) an Aztec ruler     C) a Spanish king     D) an Incan ruler   6. Who was John Cabot and what did he do?     A) He was an English captain who raided Spanish ships.     B) He was an Italian-born navigator who explored Newfoundland.     C) He was a French mapmaker who founded Quebec.     D) He was an English navigator who sailed for the Dutch.   7. What did ships carry on the middle leg of the triangular trade?     A) enslaved Africans     B) manufactured goods     C) molasses, cotton, and tobacco     D) rum   8. The new joint-stock companies helped fund voyages of exploration because they allowed individual investors to ____________     A) get loans from banks.     B) transfer funds over long distances.     C) share the risks.     D) set up branch banks.   9. Mercantilism was a theory of national economic policy that held that ____________     A) government should aid businesses producing export goods.     B) profits should be used to develop new ventures.     C) a nation should import more goods than it exports.     D) a state's power depended on its wealth.   10. Europe's increasing contacts with the rest of the world led to ____________     A) the spread of diseases.     B) an exchange of goods, technology, and ideas.     C) changes in lifestyles around the world.     D) all of the above