Sailing innovations
This navigation tool used the position of stars to help sailors determine latitude.
What is the astrolabe?
European nations explored new routes mainly to find this valuable Asian good.
What are spices?
These two countries competed to control new lands and trade routes during the Age of Exploration.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
These two dynasties ruled China during periods of trade regulation and isolation.
What are the Ming and Qing dynasties?
This city was an important center of trade connecting Europe and Asia.
What is Constantinople?
This device used magnetism to help sailors determine direction at sea, even on cloudy days.
What is the compass?
Improvements in ship design and navigation were essential because they allowed Europeans to do this across open oceans.
What is travel long distances safely and reliably?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
China limited foreign contact mainly to maintain this.
What is control over society and culture?
The Ottoman ruler known as “the Lawgiver” was this leader.
Who is Suleyman the Lawgiver?
This small, fast, and maneuverable ship design helped explorers travel farther and more safely along African coasts.
What is the caravel?
This economic problem encouraged Europeans to seek new sea routes during the Age of Exploration.
What is high costs and limited access to Asian trade goods?
The Treaty of Tordesillas was created mainly to prevent this between Spain and Portugal.
What is conflict or war?
Chinese emperors used isolationist policies because they believed China was self-sufficient and wanted to prevent this outcome.
What is loss of cultural control and political stability due to foreign influence?
Because it connected Europe and Asia, Constantinople was especially important to the Ottoman Empire for this reason.
What is it allowed control of major trade routes and increased wealth and influence?
This type of triangular sail allowed ships to sail against the wind, making long ocean voyages more possible.
What are lateen sails?
Explain why improvements in navigation were essential to the success of the Age of Exploration.
What is they reduced risk, improved accuracy, and allowed explorers to travel beyond coastal routes into open oceans?
Explain how the Treaty of Tordesillas affected Spain and Portugal.
What is it gave Portugal control over routes to Africa and Asia and Spain control over most of the Americas?
Explain one way the Ming or Qing used trade regulations to control foreigners.
What is restricting trade to specific ports and tightly regulating foreign merchants?
Why was Suleyman called “the Lawgiver”?
What is because he created and organized laws that improved justice and administration in the empire?
Explain how two sailing innovations helped European explorers travel farther and more safely during the Age of Exploration.
What are innovations like the caravel and compass, which improved ship speed, stability, and navigation, allowing explorers to travel long distances with greater accuracy and safety?
Choose one sailing innovation and explain how it changed the way explorers traveled across oceans.
What is the compass, which allowed sailors to determine direction more accurately and safely travel far from land?
Describe how competition and cooperation shaped the relationship between Spain and Portugal during the Age of Exploration.
What is they competed for wealth and territory but cooperated by agreeing to the Treaty of Tordesillas to avoid conflict?
Explain one effect isolationist policies had on China’s role in global trade.
What is China reduced foreign influence but limited its participation in global trade networks?
Explain one legal or administrative reform by Suleyman and its impact on the Ottoman Empire.
What is Suleyman standardized laws across the empire, which increased political stability and fairness?