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When was the age of exploration?

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1400s-1500s

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Why did Europeans try to find new ways to get to Asia?

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The Ottomans blocked their trade routes

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What was mercantilism?

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When nations established colonies to enrich the mother country

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Where did Vasco De Gama help Portugal gain a foothold in?

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India

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Why was Vasco De Gama amazed when he go to India?

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Because of the massive amount of goods and the large population

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How did Portugal spread its influence?

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It began to controll trade, spread catholicis, and was the first EU to reach china through the ocean

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How would Jesuits get to new nations?

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They would travel with the merchants and explorers

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What did the compass help with?

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Helping sailors to see direction even with fog.

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What did the astrolabe do?

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It helped soldiers find lattitude

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When and where was the compass invented?

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China around 800

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Who developed the astrolabe and when?

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Muslims in the 700s

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WHat was the quadrant?

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It used star positions to find longitude

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What did Magellan do?

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Travels from mexico to the Philippines

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What did the Dutch East India company do?

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Dominated southeast asia beginning in 1602

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Why was the Age of Exploration considered to be the golden age of piracy?

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There was a lot of gold and goods that was easy to steal.

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Why did EU nations hire some pirates?

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To steal from other nations ships

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What did Portuguese Prince Henry establish?

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A navigation school

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What type of ship were the Portuguese famous for?

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The caravel

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What was a caravel?

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a ship with triangular sails that could go faster and turn easier

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Who was Diogo Cam?

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A portuguese explorer who explored the west coast of Africa and the first EU sailor to reach the mouth of the congo river

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Who was Bartolomeu Dias?

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The first EU to sail around the cape of good hope, opened up sea route to asia, and helped explore south america

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Who was Vasco De Gama?

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The first EU explorer to reach india by sea

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What did Vasco De Gama do in Africa?

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Established colonies for Portugal

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Who founded the first colony in south africa?

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San Van Riebeek

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What did the English East Indian company do?

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It began the English presence in india and sets the stones for England to dominate India in the future

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Why did china not want to trade with EU nations?

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They were skeptical of them at first and also the Chinese were self sufficient, also Confucianism looked down on trade

27
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Which Chinese Dynasty did the EU trade in?

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The Ming Dynasty

28
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What did Zheng He do?

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He explored the Indian ocean as well as express that China was wealthy and establishing tributaties

29
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When China began to accept EU trade, what caused their population so boom?

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Potatoes from the Americas

30
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Why did the Chinese like the Jesuits?

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They were interested in the knowledge that they had

31
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Why didn’t conversion work in China?

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The chinese wre only interested in the knowledge that the Jesuits could provide

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What lead to the end of the Ming Dynasty?

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The huge population, from potatoes, was hard to control coupled with increasing inflation becuase of spanish trade with silver

33
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What dynasty replaced the Ming?

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The Qing Dynasty

34
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What was another name for the Qing Dynasty?

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the Manchu dynasty

35
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How tid the Qing Dynasty try to solve the problem o=the the Ming Created?

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By limiting trade with EU

36
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How did EU begin to trade with Japan?

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the Portuguese crash landed on Japan and began to trade

37
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What was the warring states period?

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When Japan had no centralized government and Diamyo would all fight with eachother

38
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What were the Diamyo?

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The small fighting regimes during the Warring States period in Japan

39
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What started to end the Warring states period?

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When teh Portuguese brought guns

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How did the Portueguese bringing guns help end the warring states period?

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Some Diamyo used cannons and guns to win their wars

41
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How did the Diamy culminate?

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Into the Tokugawa Shogunate

42
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WHen was the Tokugawa Shogunate?

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1600-1867

43
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What causes Japanese culture to fade?

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When EUs brought Christianity, it took off. This lead to the Japanese accepting more EU culture

44
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What was the Shimbara Rebellion?

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When 30,000 Jap. peasants revolted

45
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What religion wre most of the peasants in the Shimbara Rebellion?

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Catholic

46
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What did the Tokugawa government do as a response to the Shimbara Rebellion?

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They banned christianity

47
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What did the Japanese ban of Christianity result in?

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the conplete closure to the Japanese borders

48
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What people group was the acception to the Japanese border closure and why?

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The dutch because they didn’t bring Jesuits (also were only allowed to use Nagasaki)

49
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Who were the first EU to settle india?

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the Portuguese

50
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When did China begin to trade with the spanish colonies in the Phillipines?

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1570

51
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When did the Dutch form a colony in Taiwan?

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1619

52
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Where were colonial outposts and trading centers established by the Dutch East India company located?

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Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Japan

53
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What did the Dutch fight with Spain over?

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The control of Asian trade

54
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How did the Mughal empire begin to fade?

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With EU rulers expanding their power in the region, their influence and control over Indian rulers turned into them effectively governing much of India

55
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Why did China decide to trade with Portugal?

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The Chinese were impressed with the Portuguese willingness to learn Chinese customs.

56
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What city did the Chinese restrict the Portuguese merchants to?

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Canton

57
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What other crops from the Americas did the Chinese import?

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Corn and tobacco

58
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What were the rulers of Diamyo called?

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Shoguns

59
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What was the masin goal of EU explorers?

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to find a new trade route to asia

60
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What secondary objective did some EU rulers want?

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to conquer new lands and spread christianity

61
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Who were the first people in India during the age of exploration?

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The mongols.

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