Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
World History · Unit 4 · Paper 2

Transoceanic Interconnections unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 36 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 4, Paper 2” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 33 min 30 points0/17 attempted
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Virgin of Guadalupe

2

Dutch East India Company (VOC)

3

Mercantilism

4

Syncretism in the Americas

5

Dahomey and Oyo

6

Casta system

7

Demographic distortion in West Africa

8

Firearms on the African leg

9

Atlantic slave trade

10

Exit as the comparison

11

Scale of the Atlantic slave trade

12

Causes of European exploration

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Coerced syncretism

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Plantation economy

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Caravel and navigational tools

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Vasco da Gama

3 pts

Free response

6 pts

Long Essay Question. Evaluate the extent to which maritime empires transformed patterns of labor in the Atlantic world in the period from 1450 to 1750. In your response you should do the following: respond to the question with an evaluative thesis that establishes a line of reasoning; describe a broader historical context relevant to the question; support your argument with specific and relevant evidence; and use historical reasoning to explain relationships among pieces of evidence, demonstrating a complex understanding.