Inventions

Question 1

Gunpower was invented in a)___________and spread to the middle east, Central Africa and Europe.

Answer 1

a) China

Question 2

In the 1400 on of the most import technological developments of the Renaissance was the invention of the a) __________. First built by the b) ________ and c) __________. Influence by the designs of d) ____________ e) __________ earlier f) ________ sea trading vessels

Answer 2

a) Caravel
b) Spanish
c) Portuguese
d) Chinese
e) Arabic
f) European

Question 3

The Caravel made it possible for which two Portuguese explorers to travel across the ocean and around the tip of Southern Africa

Answer 3

Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama

Question 4

When was the first mechanical Clock invented during the Renaissance?

Answer 4

1300

Question 5

When was the printing press invented by Johann Gutenberg

Answer 5

1436

Question 6

The first flush toilet was invented by a)________ in b) ______ in the year c) _______?

Answer 6

a) John Harrington
b) England
c) 1590

Question 7

The a)______, invented by English physicist Robert Boyle in 1680

Answer 7

a) match