Technological Innovations
List one of the technological innovations that allowed the Europeans to "take to the seas."
Possible answers include:
Compass
Lateen Sails
Gunpowder
Cartography
Astrolabe
Why was exploration from 1450 to 1750 different from exploration in previous periods?
Exploration was state sponsored in this time period
What percentage of the indigenous population died in the Americas as a result of the Columbian Exchange?
50 percent
Whose trip around the Cape of Africa led to increased interest in setting up trading posts for the Portuguese.
Vasco da Gama
Who was the only European entity allowed to do business in Tokugawa Japan as a result of trade restrictions from the effort to combat Christianity?
Dutch East India Company
What type of government backing did joint stock companies often receive?
What type of policies were re-instated polices put in place by Mughal ruler Aurangzeb that led to the Mughal-Maratha Conflict?
Policies of religious intolerance
Name the system of organization in which people are separated into different groups based upon their power, influence, dominance, or social standing.
Social Hierarchy
An understanding of trade winds and ______________, which descbribes the direction of water, allowed Europeans to travel further on the seas than ever before in history?
Currents
What was Christopher Columbus proposing he would find on his first voyage?
A Westward Route to Asia
List the four things considered to be exchanged on the Columbian Exchange.
Diseases
Food
Ideas
People
Which African State did Portugal develop a huge interest in because of its proximity to Ithe ndian Ocean Trade routes?
Mombasa
What did the Ming Dynasty ban to focus on threats to their land borders?
Private Maritime Trade
What was traded from West Africa that depleted the region of young men and led to a demographic shift that still affects regions of Africa today?
People/Slaves
List the two factors that led to the Fronde Disturbances in France
rising taxes and food shortages
Why did the Civil Service exam under the Qing Dynasty become less accessible to the working and lower classes?
Only wealthy families could afford to prepare for the exam.
Name the two types of ships the Portuguese used to travel the seas
Carrack
Caravel
Gold
Glory
God
Name the agreement that divided land in the New World betwee Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
What was the name given to fleets of Portuguese Ships?
Armadas
What two European Nations dominated colonization of Eastern North America?
France
What enforcement powers or entities were given to joint-stock companies?
The Military
What was a major factor that led to the Pueblo Revolt
Religious persecution
What decree expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492, in an effort to preserve Christianity?
The Alhambra Decree
What two regions/people groups did Europeans interact with that allowed them access to new maritime information and technologies?
China and Islamic States
What is the economic system in which a nation's wealth is measured in gold and not productivity?
Mercantilism
List three foods or animals that went from the Old World to the New World
Possible answers include:
Horses, Cattle, Pigs
Sugar cane, Coffee Beans, Wheat, Rice, Oats, or Bananas
Who gave Portugal land grants in the 1450's?
The Pope or Pope Nicholas V
What three European Nations tried to dominate trade with India?
List 3 things that led to the Commercial Revolution
Possible Answer Include:
New ocean trade routes
European colonies
Population growth
Joint-stock companies
Mining of gold and silver
Mercantilist policies
Rivalries between states vying for control of trade routes
What group of people challenged "state" power in the Americas through organized resistance?
Enslaved persons
The following quote describes what type of monarch "The head alone has the right to deliberate and decide, and the functions of all the other members consist only in carrying out the command given to them...."
Absolute Monarchy or Absoutism
Who was the first person "credited" with circumnavigating the earth and why would "credited" be in quotes?
Ferdinand Magellan
He did not personally survive the voyage
Which nation would be considered the leader in early European Exploration and what type of "empire" were they considered to be setting up?
Portugal
Trading Post or Port Empire
List 3 animals, foods, or plants that went from the New World to the Old World
Possible Answer Include:
Tobacco, Vanilla, Tomatoes, Peppers, Beans, Cacao, Maize, Potatoes, Pumpkins.
What did African kings often trade to the Portuguese?
Slaves
Name the two large European "companies" that dominated global trade, include the countries they are assocaiated with.
East India Company (Great Britain/England)
The Dutch East India Company (The Netherlands)
What is the term given to the trade that involved guns to Africa, slaves to the Americas, and resources to Europe?
Triangular Trade
What led to a centralized resistance on the local level?
State Expansion
This system, used in the Ottoman Empire, granted either land or tax revenues to those he favored. In this system, military members held high statuses.
Timar system