TP 11: Age of Exploration ⛵️
What kinds of goods did Europeans want to buy from foreign countries in the 1400s?
Silk and Spices
Portuguese ships first arrived in China in 1514 during which dynasty?
Ming Dynasty
Why did Spain stop relying on Native Americans for labor in the New World?
Disease 🦠
Name one major trade current used for ocean exploration during the Age of Exploration
South Atlantic Current, North Atlantic Current
Who was the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty who helped restore Confucian traditions?
Hongwu
Why did Europeans turn to Africans for enslaved labor?
Resistance to disease 🦠
Name one new technology that helped European sailors travel farther.
Magnetic compasses, caravels.
Which belief system influenced China’s decision not to industrialize?
Confucianism
Where did many enslaved Africans originally come from before being sold to Europeans?
West African kingdoms 🏰
What specific trade route did traders use to move goods across land to Asia before ocean exploration?
The Silk Road
During the Tokugawa Period in Japan, European traders traded which items to Japanese daimyo?
Cannons and muskets 💥
What was the name of the journey that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic?
Middle Passage
What did Prince Henry do?
Created a School of Navigation for Portuguese sailors.
Under the Tokugawa shogunate, how did Japan limit contact with outsiders?
By becoming a closed country with only one port open 🌊
What describes the conditions enslaved Africans faced during the Middle Passage?
Inhuman conditions / Middle Passage mortality