maritime revolutions

Question 1

The Europeans were isolated from the rest of the world. T/F

Answer 1

False, Europeans fought the Muslims for control of the Holy Land and Marco Polo traveled to the Chinese Court of Kublai Khan

Question 2

What Muslim empire reduced the ability of Europeans to travel by land to Asia?

Answer 2

Ottoman Turks

Question 3

How did the Ottoman Turks indirectly start the Age of Exploration?

Answer 3

They reduced the ability of Europeans to travel by land to Asia, so they had to find sea routes.

Question 4

Three reasons why Europeans staged explorations and expeditions.

Answer 4

God, Gold, Glory.

Question 5

Not all of Europe was Christian in the 15th century T/F

Answer 5

False. All of Europe was Christian (Portugal and Spain are Catholic while the British were Protestant)

Question 6

Why was God one of the reasons for the explorations?

Answer 6

Desire of spreading the word of God.

Question 7

Gold was the only resource Europeans wanted to find. T/F

Answer 7

False. There were also other resources like spices.

Question 8

Fill in the blanks: Many of the voyages were intended to spread the ______ of their country.

Answer 8

Influence.

Question 9

These maps recorded the shape of coastlines and distances between ports.

Answer 9

Portolani chart.

Question 10

This helped locate European navigators to accurately locate position and measure distances.

Answer 10

Map.

Question 11

This was first used by Prince Henry the Navigator and the Portuguese

Answer 11

Astrolabe.

Question 12

This device worked by presenting a plane representation of the celestial sphere and the major circles. It used the sun or stars to ascertain a ship’s latitude.

Answer 12

Astrolabe.

Question 13

It showed navigators what direction they’re going to. (N/E/W/S)

Answer 13

Magnetic compass.

Question 14

The caravel ship came from the?

Answer 14

Arabs.

Question 15

Why was Prince Henry given the title of “the Navigator”?

Answer 15

He was the one who first initiated explorations and expeditions.

Question 16

Who led the Invasion of Ceuta?

Answer 16

Prince Henry.

Question 17

Prince Henry perfected an eastward route to Africa via Asia. T/F

Answer 17

False, Asia to Africa.

Question 18

What was the most important contribution of Prince Henry in
the history of navigation and exploration?

Answer 18

Launched a number of
voyages that perfected an eastward route to Asia via Africa.

Question 19

Portugal was the first one to establish trading ports in Africa. T/F

Answer 19

True.

Question 20

Who discovered the Atlantic and Indian oceans?

Answer 20

Bartolomeu Dias.

Question 21

How did Bartolomeu Dias reach the Cape of Good Hope.

Answer 21

He took a route in the southernmost part of Africa.

Question 22

Vasco de Gama was greatly influenced by the voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator. T/F

Answer 22

False. He was influenced by Bartolomeu Dias.

Question 23

This voyager reached Calicut, India.

Answer 23

Vasco da Gama.

Question 24

Vasco da Gama sailed northwards into the Indian Ocean to reach Calicut. T/F

Answer 24

True.

Question 25

Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque established a port in Gokarna. T/F

Answer 25

False. He established a port in Goa.

Question 26

To Albuquerque, what opportunity provided them to get to the Spice Islands.

Answer 26

Takeover of Melaka, meaning the downfall of the Muslim Empire.

Question 27

Portugal set up a port at Melaka. T/F

Answer 27

True.

Question 28

Christopher Columbus convinced Portuguese monarch Queen Isabella that he could reach Asia by sailing westward around Africa. T/F

Answer 28

False. Queen Isabella was Spanish.

Question 29

How many voyages did Christopher Columbus lead?

Answer 29

Four.

Question 30

This pope issued a Papal Bull that drew an imaginary line, what is the name of the Pope and the name of the line?

Answer 30

Pope Alexander VI and Demarcation line.

Question 31

True or False: Under the Treaty of Tordesillas, all the lands in the east belong to Spain and all the lands in the west belong to Portugal.

Answer 31

False. The directions are reversed.

Question 32

Who disagreed to the treaty, Portugal or Spain?

Answer 32

Portugal.

Question 33

Giovanni De Verrazano reached the New Louisiana harbor. T/F

Answer 33

False. He reached the New York Harbor.

Question 34

This French voyager gave the name to St. Lawrence to a river and claimed Montreal in Canada.

Answer 34

Jacques Cartier.

Question 35

Who was the leader of the discovery of the base of France’s colonial empire in North America.

Answer 35

Samuel de Champlain, and Quebec.

Question 36

These two explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi river.

Answer 36

Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet.

Question 37

Sieur de La Salle found the upper Mississippi river. T/F

Answer 37

False, he found the LOWER Mississippi river.

Question 38

Where was the first English colony?

Answer 38

Jamestown, Virginia.

Question 39

What were the three waterways named after Henry Hudson

Answer 39

Hudson River, Strait, and Bay.

Question 40

Mercantilism is an economic system. T/F

Answer 40

False, it is an economic policy.

Question 41

This economic system allows most businesses which include big companies that operate locally and overseas

Answer 41

Capitalism.

Question 42

What are vassal states?

Answer 42

Nations controlled by a more powerful country, often required to pay tributes as a sign of submission.

Question 43

Yonglu was the first Ming emperor.

Answer 43

False, it was his father, Hongwu.

Question 44

What were one of the changes made by Yonglu?

Answer 44

made Beijing the capital, launched the first seven voyages of exploration led by Zheng He, let china enter into an isolation.

Question 45

What is the ritual performed when one kneels in front of the emperor and touching one’s head to the ground nine times?

Answer 45

Kowtow.

Question 46

They let missionaries into China. T/F

Answer 46

False, China viewed Christianism as dangerous.

Question 47

What was term for warrior-chieftains in the Sengoku era?

Answer 47

Daimyo

Question 48

The first leader in Japan who ruled by force.

Answer 48

Oda Nobunaga.

Question 49

Tokugawa Ieyasu was Nobunaga’s best general. T/F

Answer 49

False, it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi.