China
Name of China's greatest naval super power?
What is Zheng He
What 90% of Europe’s population did for work.
What is farming?
What is the name of the man who began the idea of exploration for Portugal?
What is Prince Henry the Navigator
Name of the explorer who discovered America?
Who is Christopher Columbus
Many of the Native Americans died because..
What is disease
Valuable material that everyone wanted besides fabric, spices, and medicine.
What is porcelain
What the Europeans quality and life expectations was.
What was harsh and short?
What was the reason Prince Henry the Navigator wanted to explore?
What is finding a route around Africa to reach the Indies
Where did Christopher Columbus actually arrive to when he thought he was in China?
What is the Dominican Republic (San Salvador)
What were some of the diseases the Native Americans encountered when meeting the Europeans?
What is smallpox, measles, influenza
Length and ratio of Zheng He's ships compared to Christopher Columbus' ships?
What is 400 feet long and a 300 to 150 ratio
The percent of Europeans that died within the first year of life?
What was 1/4?
The well known sailor who studied in Portugal for 10 years?
Who is Crisobal Colon and/or Christopher Columbus.
Who were the two royalty figures that granted his exploration and funded his trip?
What is Ferdinand and Isabella
The group of people that Christopher Columbus thought could become slaves.
Who were Native Americans
The number of voyages Admiral Zheng He took and across what ocean?
What is seven voyages and the Indian Ocean
This was the deadly event that started in 1347.
What was the Black Death?
The first school for learning how to navigate the ocean.
What is Prince Henry’s Academy?
What were the names of Christopher Columbus' ships?
What is the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
What was the Native American's idea of land ownership?
What is borrowing the land to live on and cultivate it, but isn't seen as property.
Zheng He's reasoning for not possibly exploring the Americas?
What is the Indian Ocean trade routes were already known to him and funding an exploration would cost a lot of money for all 317 ships and 28,000 sailors. The voyages then came to an end when Zheng He died and no one was that interested in maritime trade.
The reasons for traveling to the New World.
What was population increase, building nation-states, and innovation?
What did the Portuguese do in the Indian Ocean to other ships trying to use the same trading routes and what was the effect?
Since the Portuguese had insufficient people and ships to take over routes in the Indian Ocean, they captured other ships and had them purchase a permit to trade in their waters. This made them richer by collecting profit from merchants.
What did Christopher Columbus bring back to prove his victory?
What is Native Americans to prove his discovery but no gold or spices.
Sioux, Cheyenne, and Navajo.
What were some Native American’s tribes. These are some of the most well known tribes to our present day society.