quiz IV Flashcards
- This was the name for the academic and cultural ‘rebirth’ of Europe
Renaissance
In what two ways did Europeans receive new or old information?
Mongols (any two)
caliphates, or Crusades
What did they receive from the Mongols?
Gunpowder
What four things did they receive from the Arabs and other Muslims?
Printing (any four)
Astrolabes
Diagnosis
Lateen sails, hospitals, traveling clinics
What did they receive from conquered part of the Middle East from 1095-1291?
Greco-Roman Logic / skepticism
Provide four new technologies or techniques used to enhance European exploration.
caravel (any four)
portolan maps
astrolabe
compass, trade winds, westerlies, stern-post rudder
Which wind patterns blew west, from western Africa to the Caribbean?
Trade Winds
Which wind pattern blew east, from the present-day US to northern Europe?
Westerlies
Europeans were motivated to explore for Gold, gold, and glory. What did the ‘God’ represent?
Spreading Christianity
What did the ‘gold’ represent?
riches
What did the ‘glory’ represent?
identity / pride
Which five European states began exploring in the 16th and 17th centuries?
Netherlands (any order) Spain England France Portugal
What was the term used to describe kings, princes, and lords funding exploration?
royal patronage
. What was the term used to describe regular people funding exploration by paying for portions of the costs?
joint stock
Who funded these first voyages along the western coast of Africa?
Henry the Navigator
Who found the route to India around the tip of Africa?
Vasco de Gama
What was the role of Europeans in Asian trade after exploration?
facilitating trade
Who had ‘trade-post’ empires in the 1500s (16th century)?
Portugal
What was the name of the tax put on trade by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean?
cartaz
Who had the first massive conquest-based colonial empire in the 1500s (16th century)?
Spanish
Which conquistador ‘conquered’ the Aztecs?
Cortez
Which conquistador ‘conquered’ the Incans?
Pizarro
Which three European countries followed the first two’s footsteps in the 1600s (17th century)?
England (any order)
Netherlands
France
What was the name of the new European economic policy/technique for colonial empires?
mercantilism
Why is it referred to as the ‘fixed wealth’ system?
They believed there was only certain amount of money in the world
What were the two parts of the strategy for this new economic policy?
tariffs (more exports than imports) (any order)
sabotaging or stealing rival trade
This is the term used to describe goods being sold to another country.
exports
This is the term used to describe goods being purchased from another country.
imports
What was the name of the type of companies who were allowed to settle colonies for their mother country?
charter companies
Provide a specific example company.
British East India, Dutch East India, London, or Virginia Companies
This is the name of the shogun who united Japan in the 17th century
Tokugawa
What brand of Christianity made it to Japan in the 17th century?
Catholicism
What was the name of the rebellion put down by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1637?
Shimabara
What was Japan’s response to the rebellion and its ‘foreign’ influence.
banned foreigners
. What was the name of the policy described in #48?
Sakoku
Which European country continued trade with Japan throughout the 17th century?
Netherlands/Dutch
Provide four goods transported from the New World to the Old World.
tomatoes (any four)
potatoes
tobacco
corn, cacao, etc.
Provide four goods transported from the Old World to the New World.
rice (any four)
wheat
okra
coffee, sugar, domesticated animals, etc.
What was the name of the exchange of these goods in the 16th century?
Columbian Exchange
Provide the five Atlantic States that established maritime empires in the Early Modern Era.
Spain (any order) Portugal England Netherlands France
This the name for land grants to conquistadors in the Early Modern Era.
encomienda
This is the name of the feudal rulers of these land grants.
encomienderas
This is the name of the individual ranches, mines, and plantations on these land grants.
haciendas
Provide, in order from most-to-least esteemed, the racial hierarchy established in the Spanish New World.
Peninsulare Creole Mestizo Mulatto Zambo
This is the practice of establishing overseas colonies to provide wealth and resources to the mother countries.
colonialism
. Provide three types of merchants from Asia that continued to thrive despite European domination in the early modern Era.
Omanis (any order)
Gujaratis
Javanese
