Foundation • Question 1 of 35
Spanish miners extract enormous quantities of silver at Potosí.
Which empire controlled Potosí during the sixteenth century?
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Foundation • Question 2 of 35
A map shows silver moving from the Americas to Europe and across the Pacific to Asia.
What does the map demonstrate?
Foundation • Question 3 of 35
The Spanish crown claims a share of colonial precious-metal production.
Which goal does this policy reflect?
Foundation • Question 4 of 35
China’s tax system increasingly requires payments in silver.
What effect did this have on global trade?
Foundation • Question 5 of 35
Manila galleons carry silver westward and Asian goods eastward.
Which two regions did this route directly connect?
Foundation • Question 6 of 35
A mercantilist adviser argues that colonies should supply raw materials and buy metropolitan goods.
What is the adviser trying to strengthen?
Foundation • Question 7 of 35
A government grants one company exclusive trading rights in a region.
What is this called?
Foundation • Question 8 of 35
European states impose tariffs on imported manufactured goods.
What was a mercantilist purpose of tariffs?
Foundation • Question 9 of 35
Colonial law requires certain goods to pass through the imperial power’s ships or ports.
Which policy is illustrated?
Foundation • Question 10 of 35
A merchant complains that trade restrictions encourage smuggling.
Using the evidence about A merchant complains that trade restrictions encourage smuggling., what does this reveal?
Application • Question 11 of 35
Silver prices change in Europe after large American imports.
Which broader economic effect is associated with sixteenth-century bullion inflows?
Application • Question 12 of 35
A Spanish mine relies on Indigenous labor drafts in the Andes.
Which institution is most relevant?
Application • Question 13 of 35
A merchant in China accepts Spanish silver coins in exchange for silk.
What does this best illustrate?
Application • Question 14 of 35
A historian says silver “flowed to China.”
Which qualification makes the claim stronger?
Application • Question 15 of 35
A colony exports sugar and imports manufactured goods from the metropole.
Which mercantilist relationship is visible?
Application • Question 16 of 35
A joint-stock company pools investments from many shareholders.
What problem did this arrangement help solve?
Application • Question 17 of 35
A ruler supports a chartered company that can make treaties and use force.
For A ruler supports a chartered company that can make treaties and use fo, which answer most directly addresses this question: what does this reveal?
Application • Question 18 of 35
A European state hoards bullion but also spends heavily on wars and imports.
Why is bullion alone a poor measure of state strength?
Application • Question 19 of 35
A mine expands output but local food prices rise and labor is redirected.
What does this show?
Application • Question 20 of 35
A Chinese merchant prefers silver because tax obligations and market transactions increasingly use it.
Which causal mechanism is strongest?
Application • Question 21 of 35
A student says mercantilism meant “countries wanted money.”
Which revision is more precise?
Application • Question 22 of 35
A port city grows because it handles colonial goods, credit, insurance, and shipping.
What does this suggest?
Application • Question 23 of 35
A colonial merchant trades illegally with a rival empire.
Why might this occur?
Application • Question 24 of 35
A historian compares American silver with Japanese silver.
Why is the comparison useful?
Application • Question 25 of 35
A graph shows silver exports rising while Spain experiences repeated fiscal crises.
Which conclusion is strongest?
Advanced reasoning • Question 26 of 35
A DBQ asks whether silver transformed the world economy.
Which thesis is strongest?
Advanced reasoning • Question 27 of 35
A mine record was produced by a colonial official responsible for revenue.
How should the source be used?
Advanced reasoning • Question 28 of 35
A Chinese scholar complains that silver scarcity makes taxes harder to pay.
Using the evidence about A Chinese scholar complains that silver scarcity makes taxes harder to, what does this reveal?
Advanced reasoning • Question 29 of 35
A European company seeks monopoly rights but faces Asian merchants and rival companies.
What does this reveal about mercantilist ambition?
Advanced reasoning • Question 30 of 35
A historian studies coin finds, customs records, ship manifests, and tax edicts.
Why combine these sources?
Advanced reasoning • Question 31 of 35
A prompt asks for a comparison between Atlantic and Pacific silver routes.
Which approach is strongest?
Advanced reasoning • Question 32 of 35
A colony resists metropolitan trade restrictions.
Which long-term tension is visible?
Advanced reasoning • Question 33 of 35
Which evidence best challenges the idea that early modern globalization was controlled entirely by Europeans?
Which conclusion about Which evidence best challenges the idea that early modern globalizatio best answers the following historical problem: choose the strongest answer.?
Advanced reasoning • Question 34 of 35
Which statement best captures mercantilism from 1450 to 1750?
Using the evidence about Which statement best captures mercantilism from 1450 to 1750?, choose the strongest answer.?
Advanced reasoning • Question 35 of 35
Which statement best captures silver’s historical significance?
For Which statement best captures silver’s historical significance?, which answer most directly addresses this question: choose the strongest answer.?
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After the practice test
Use silver and mercantilism to practice global economic reasoning
If you missed silver-flow questions, trace the commodity through a chain: extraction in the Americas, colonial labor systems, Atlantic or Pacific shipping, merchants and imperial revenue, and demand in Asian markets. The point is not simply that silver moved; it is why people wanted it and which institutions moved it.
For mercantilism, replace the vague idea that states “wanted wealth” with specific policies: monopolies, tariffs, navigation rules, colonial trade restrictions, chartered companies, and efforts to secure favorable commercial flows. Then remember that smuggling and rival merchants limited enforcement.
Do not treat early modern globalization as a European-only achievement. Chinese demand, Asian merchants, Indigenous and African labor, colonial producers, local rulers, and European companies all shaped the system from very unequal positions.
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Related Unit 4 practice: Manila galleons
Apply global silver and mercantilism concepts to the Pacific route, Manila merchants, Chinese manufactures, and colonial mining in a separate 35-question practice test. Take the Manila galleons and Pacific silver trade practice test
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