Age of Exploration

Question 1

When was the age of exploration?

Answer 1

1400s-1500s

Question 2

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

Answer 2

The Ottomans blocked their trade routes

Question 3

What was mercantilism?

Answer 3

When nations established colonies to enrich the mother country

Question 4

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

Answer 4

India

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Because of the massive amount of goods and the large population

Question 6

How did Portugal spread its influence?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

How would Jesuits get to new nations?

Answer 7

They would travel with the merchants and explorers

Question 8

What did the compass help with?

Answer 8

Helping sailors to see direction even with fog.

Question 9

What did the astrolabe do?

Answer 9

It helped soldiers find lattitude

Question 10

When and where was the compass invented?

Answer 10

China around 800

Question 11

Who developed the astrolabe and when?

Answer 11

Muslims in the 700s

Question 12

WHat was the quadrant?

Answer 12

It used star positions to find longitude

Question 13

What did Magellan do?

Answer 13

Travels from mexico to the Philippines

Question 14

What did the Dutch East India company do?

Answer 14

Dominated southeast asia beginning in 1602

Question 15

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

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Why did EU nations hire some pirates?

Answer 16

To steal from other nations ships

Question 17

What did Portuguese Prince Henry establish?

Answer 17

A navigation school

Question 18

What type of ship were the Portuguese famous for?

Answer 18

The caravel

Question 19

What was a caravel?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Who was Diogo Cam?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Who was Bartolomeu Dias?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Who was Vasco De Gama?

Answer 22

The first EU explorer to reach india by sea

Question 23

What did Vasco De Gama do in Africa?

Answer 23

Established colonies for Portugal

Question 24

Who founded the first colony in south africa?

Answer 24

San Van Riebeek

Question 25

What did the English East Indian company do?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Why did china not want to trade with EU nations?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Which Chinese Dynasty did the EU trade in?

Answer 27

The Ming Dynasty

Question 28

What did Zheng He do?

Answer 28

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

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Potatoes from the Americas

Question 30

Why did the Chinese like the Jesuits?

Answer 30

They were interested in the knowledge that they had

Question 31

Why didn't conversion work in China?

Answer 31

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

Question 32

What lead to the end of the Ming Dynasty?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What dynasty replaced the Ming?

Answer 33

The Qing Dynasty

Question 34

What was another name for the Qing Dynasty?

Answer 34

the Manchu dynasty

Question 35

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

Answer 35

By limiting trade with EU

Question 36

How did EU begin to trade with Japan?

Answer 36

the Portuguese crash landed on Japan and began to trade

Question 37

What was the warring states period?

Answer 37

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

Question 38

What were the Diamyo?

Answer 38

The small fighting regimes during the Warring States period in Japan

Question 39

What started to end the Warring states period?

Answer 39

When teh Portuguese brought guns

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Some Diamyo used cannons and guns to win their wars

Question 41

How did the Diamy culminate?

Answer 41

Into the Tokugawa Shogunate

Question 42

WHen was the Tokugawa Shogunate?

Answer 42

1600-1867

Question 43

What causes Japanese culture to fade?

Answer 43

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

Question 44

What was the Shimbara Rebellion?

Answer 44

When 30,000 Jap. peasants revolted

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Catholic

Question 46

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

Answer 46

They banned christianity

Question 47

What did the Japanese ban of Christianity result in?

Answer 47

the conplete closure to the Japanese borders

Question 48

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

Answer 48

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

Question 49

Who were the first EU to settle india?

Answer 49

the Portuguese

Question 50

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

Answer 50

1570

Question 51

When did the Dutch form a colony in Taiwan?

Answer 51

1619

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Japan

Question 53

What did the Dutch fight with Spain over?

Answer 53

The control of Asian trade

Question 54

How did the Mughal empire begin to fade?

Answer 54

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

Question 55

Why did China decide to trade with Portugal?

Answer 55

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

Question 56

What city did the Chinese restrict the Portuguese merchants to?

Answer 56

Canton

Question 57

What other crops from the Americas did the Chinese import?

Answer 57

Corn and tobacco

Question 58

What were the rulers of Diamyo called?

Answer 58

Shoguns

Question 59

What was the masin goal of EU explorers?

Answer 59

to find a new trade route to asia

Question 60

What secondary objective did some EU rulers want?

Answer 60

to conquer new lands and spread christianity

Question 61

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

Answer 61

The mongols.