European Exploration
China
Japan
CPEGS
Now That's RANDOM!
100
This was the number 1 reason for European exploration.
What is Economic (Money, to get rich, Wealth)
100
A great admiral with a flagship that was 440 feet long!
Who is Zheng He?
100
A Japanese warrior who served the daimyo.
What/Who is a samurai?
100
This invention was an important step forward in ocean navigation.
What is the astrolabe/compass/triangular sails/sextant (page 85)
100
The peninsula used as a springboard for invasion between Japan and China. Also known as "The Hermit Kingdom."
What is Korea?
200
This is a secondary reason for European exploration.
What is Religious (seek converts to Christianity, spread the Gospel, bring religious enlightenment)
200
The Great Wall of China was built mostly during this dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
200
Warrior chieftains who used samurai for security and war against other territories.
What is a daimyo?
200
A Portuguese technology that found its way to Japan by shipwreck!
What is the musket?
200
The name given to the southern tip of Africa by Bartholomeu Dias.
What is the Cape of Storms?
300
This period of history influenced Europeans to become more curious and explore the world around them.
What is the Renaissance?
300
This man founded the Ming Dynasty after driving the Mongols out of China.
Who is Hongwu?
300
The top leader or commander in chief of all daimyo.
What is a Shogun?
300
This Japanese poem is usually organized into 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
300
The name given to the southern tip of Africa by the Portuguese ruler when he didn't like Bartholomeu Dias' name.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
400
This explorer explained his motives for exploration: "to serve God and His Majesty, to give light to those who were in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do."r
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
400
This man was the son of Hongwu and sponsored the voyages of Zheng He, the greatest admiral in Chinese history.
Who is Yonglo?
400
The Shogunate that unified Japan in 1600 and established the capital of modern Tokyo.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?
400
The number of ships in Zheng He's fleet (as well as the number of Spartans at Thermopolae).
What is 300?
400
The Portuguese sailor whose voyage of 27,000 miles to India in 1498-99 and return cargo of spices, silks and precious gems caused Spain to seek a direct route to the treasures of Asia.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
500
This man established a school on the southwestern coast of Portugal in 1419, where mapmakers, shipbuilders, scientists and sea captains gathered to perfect their trade.
Who is Prince Henry?
500
This dynasty was founded by the Manchus and was led by Kangxi, who upheld traditional Confucian beliefs and social structures.
What is the Qing ("Chihng") Dynasty?
500
>>>>>>>>DAILY DOUBLE!!!!<<<<<<<<< This ruthless leader's motto was "Rule the empire by force!" He was the first to use muskets in battle against rival daimyo.
Who is Oda Nobunaga? (page 94)
500
The primary occupation in China during the age of exploration.
What is agriculture?
500
Pope Alexander VI stepped between rivals Portugal and Spain in 1493 and made them sign this agreement, creating a Line of Demarcation that gave Spain settlement rights to the lands west of the line and to Portugal east of the line.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
M
e
n
u