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The emergence of Japan as a major source of silver production in the sixteenth century contributed to:

The origins of the Atlantic slave trade were associated with the:

What commodity was considered "soft gold" in early modern commerce?

Which of the following characterizes how European countries sought to control trade in Asia from 1450 to 1750?

Which of the following was a feature of commerce in the Indian Ocean basin when Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498?

What was one main difference between how the British East India Company operated in Mughal India and how the Dutch East India Company operated in what is now Indonesia?

How did the decision by the Chinese state to require payment of taxes in silver in the 1570s affect the global economy?

In east Africa, in the late 19th century, what percentage of the population were slaves?

What did the Portuguese do after they established sea routes to the Indian Ocean?

Which describes the role Europeans played in the economy of the early modern era?

Which of the following was a result of the fur trade in North America in the early modern period?

Which of the following describes the experiences of some women in Africa in the early modern era?

Which of the following describes how the fur trade affected indigenous peoples in North America?

Which of the following was a consequence of the Atlantic slave trade?

Which of the following was established as a Spanish colony in the sixteenth century?

Which of the following developments in the early modern period provided incentives for Europeans to go into the fur trade?

Which of the following distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history?

Of the three west African kingdoms discussed in the lecture videos, which two became heavily dependent on the slave trade?

In contrast to east and west Africa, southern Africa never developed large scale slavery. Why was this?

How did the Tokugawa shoguns treat Europeans in Japan in the early seventeenth century?