This explorer stumbled on what he thought were islands off India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
This group paid the highest taxes and had the most difficult lives in feudal Japan
Who are farmers?
100
This was the ritual kneeling to a Chinese emperor
What is kowtow?
100
The desire to spread this faith was an important reason for the age of European exploration in the 1400s.
What is Christianity?
100
This European nation profited most from trade with the East in the years directly following the Crusades.
What is Italy?
200
He was a Chinese Muslim admiral who led seven voyages of exploration
Who is Zheng He?
200
Daimyo Tokogawa Ieyasu defeated his rivals at the Battle of Sekigahara and soon became the sole ruler or ___________ of a unified country.
What is the shogun?
200
This was China’s official trade policy in the 1500s
What is isolationism?
200
This treaty established an invisible line through the Atlantic Ocean, with lands west of the line belonging to Spain and lands east of the line belonging to Portugal.
What is The Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
In the 1400s, this was the most important trade good from the East
What are spices?
300
The Treaty of Tordesillas gave Portugal the land __________ of the line of demarcation.
What is east?
300
What do we call the period in Japanese history when Samurai took over the old feudal estates and became warrior-chieftains who provided protection to peasants and others?
What is the “warring states” period?
300
Yonglo moved the Chinese capital to Beijing, where he built the palace complex known as the ____________.
What is the Forbidden City?
300
The invention of this ship and other improvements in sailing technology made voyages of exploration possible.
What is the caravel?
300
By 1600, this nation had the largest fleet of ships in the world and had become a leading sea power.
Who are the Dutch/ the Netherlands?
400
He captained the first European ship to sail around the southern tip of Africa
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
400
Japan was united and culture thrived for over 200 years under this military government.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
400
This “little brother” was a vassal state of China during the 1700s.
What is Korea?
400
This “navigator” used his personal fortune to support a number of Portuguese voyages of exploration along the coast of Africa.
Who is Prince Henry?
400
These were the warlords under Japan’s system of feudalism.
Who are the daimyo?
500
His exploration of the east African coast gave Portugal a direct sea route to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
500
This leader’s rule ended the “warring states” period, even though he did not succeed in unifying Japan
Who is Oda Nobunaga?
500
This dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644 after Hongwu overthrew the Mongols.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
500
Portugal, the Netherlands, England, and France all competed for control of trade on this ocean
What is the Indian Ocean?
500
Japan instituted this policy to control foreign ideas?