How did Dutch merchants contribute to the development of European commerce?  

  What was the primary reason for the rapid increase in the importation of Africans in sixteenth-century Brazil and the Caribbean?  

  What was a consequence of Europeans’ introduction of firearms into North America?  

  Which of the following was used by Tokugawa Ieyasu to secure relative peace, which lasted for two centuries after his death?  

  Which of the following was the most lucrative source of wealth for European planters in the Americas in the seventeenth century?  

  Which of the following best explains why the Portuguese dominated the Indian Ocean sea-lanes in the early sixteenth century?  

  Why was it necessary to continue to import large numbers of African slaves to replenish labor on sugar plantations?  

  Which of the following was a consequence of European states’ extraction of wealth from colonies?  

  Which of the following was a major long-term consequence of Columbus’s voyages?  

  Which of the following was a way in which the spread of Protestant beliefs contributed to protracted warfare in Europe between the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries?