Age of Exploration and Isolation Flashcards
What was the main reason for exploration
to gain wealth
Contact during crusades spurs demanded for what
Asian goods
Who controlled trade from east to west
Muslims and Italians
Who wanted to serve God and king
Bartolomeu Dias
What improved tracking of direction
magnetic compass
What was a type of ship; makes it possible to sail against wind
Caravel
What is a tool to make navigation easier; uses the positioning of the stars
astrolabe
Where did the portuguese explore
Africa
Who is the son of Portugal’s king
Prince Henry
who found navigation school on coast of Portugal
Prince Henry
WHo has trading posts on west coast of Africa
Portuguese
Who sailed around the southern tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Who sailed to India to get Portugal valuable cargo
Vasco da Gama
In 1492, who sailed for Spain
Christopher Columbus
Who sailed west to support plan to reach Asia
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus sailed west finding which foreign day country
America
Christopher opened Americas to which ideas
exploration and colonization
the pope divided Americas between which two nations
Spain and Portugal
Agreement for America was formalized by what treaty
Treaty of Tordesillas
Who toke over the indian ocean trade from muslims
portugal
who has more ships than any other nation
dutch
who weakened portuguese control of asian trade
dutch and english
what was the Dutch East India company made for
Asian trade
where was the dutch trade headquarters
Batavia
what was dutch’s capital; Also weathy
Amsterdam
who ruled china from 1368 to 1644
Ming dynasty
who collected tributes from as many asian countries as possible
Ming rulers
peasant’s son who leads army that forces Mongols from China
Hongwu
who was the first ming emperor
Hongwu
Hongwu’s son
Yonglo
who moved royal court to bejing
Yonglo
who launched first voyages of exploration
Yonglo
who lead seven long voyages
Zheng
who distributed gifts to show China’s superiority
Zheng
chinese government controls all contact with who
outsiders
what kind of demands did chinese goods have
high
chinese policies favored what ideas
farming
christian missionaries brought whose ideas to china
european
people of Manchuria
Manchus
manchu rulers who take control
Qing dynasty
Manchus conquered who
Korea
Ming and Qing culture based on what
traditional forms
civil war destroyed what kind of system in Japan
feudal
lords in new feudal system
daimyo
who built armies od mounted samurai
daimyo
powerful daimyo who seizes capital of Kyoto
Oda Nobunaga
nobunaga rival
Daimyo
who carried on Nobunaga work after he committed suicide
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
who toke over complete unification of Japan
Tokugawa Ieyasu
another word for shogun
sole ruler
Edo grew up to be what
Tokyo
who ruled Japan until 1867
Tokugawa Shogunate
long period of peace
posterity
peasants suffered from what in Tokugawa Japan
High taxes
Japan became what kind of society
urban
traditional culture in Japan did what
thrive
townspeople enjoyed what kind of fiction in Japan
realistic
what is skits with elaborate costumes
Kabuki theater
what kind of traders were welcome by Japanese
European
the europeans what changed japanese way of fighting
firearms
how many japanese were christians
300,000
Japan’s rulers banned what
christianity
who disliked europeans ideas
shoguns
who limited europeans trade
shoguns
who were forbidden to travel abroad
Japanese
Where did Yonglo move the royal court to
beijing
who brought european ideas to china
christian missionaries
when the manchus conquered korea, kore felt feelings of what
nationalism
what reflected rejection of chinese ways
art
why do the chinese isolate
they think they are superior
Chinese set what for trading
special rules
who followed the rules of trading and who did not
the dutch accepted the rules but the british did not
literary work that revealed manchu society
Dream of the Red Chamber
what helped unify chinese people
plays about chinese history
what produced more crops and spurred population growth
new farming techniques
families favored who over who
son over daughter
some women worked outside home but most did what
live restricted lives
what destroyed old feudal system in Japan
Civil War
period from 1467 to 1568 is called what
Warring states
who is a figurehead with no real power and why
emperor because of daimyo
other wise known as warrior-cheiftains
daimyo
who launched invasion on Korea
Hideyoshi
most women lead what kind of lives
sheltered
what influenced society
confucian ideas
what was popular among samurai
tragic noh dramas
three line poetry that presents image
haiku
european traders were welcome by who
japanese
first european arrived when japan had what
no central authority
who limited european trade
shoguns
who were the only two people allowed to trade when japan was in isolation
dutch and chinese
