Chapter 23
Who did King John II choose as commander?
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
pg.172
What was Africa?
What is a peninsula?
pg. 178
Which navigators possessed a navy unparalleled in numbers, skills, and technology?
Who were the Chinese navigators?]
pg. 186
By the end of what century was Pepper no longer a luxury table condiment?
What is the 15th century?
pg. 195
What Greek pilot steered ships a century before the late Ptolemaicic kings of Egypt?
Who is Hippalus?
pg.179
Who did Bartholomeu Dias become?
Who is the forgotten man of Portugal's Age of Discovery?
pg. 174
What is you "rode a ship" mean in Arabic?
What is rakaba markab?
pg. 180
What was a qualified eunuch called?
What is the keeper of the couch?
pg. 187
What animal that has never been seen before in China was brought as a tribute from Bengal?
What is a giraffe?
pg. 196
Who made the eunuch Narses one of his generals?
Who is Justinian I?
pg. 187
Whose voyage changed the course of both Western and Eastern history?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
pg. 177
What was the most useful to Arab navigators?
What is Kitab al-Fawa'id (or Nautical Directory)?
pg. 182
What were the presents offered to the Lord Buddha?
What is 1000 pieces of gold, 5000 pieces of silver, 100 rolls of silk, 2500 catties of perfume oil, and various gilded and laced bronze ecclesiastical ornaments?
In Chinese folklore, the appearance of what animal was more than a good omen.
What is the unicorn?
pg. 197
The Chinese government became what "paw" for foreign powers
What is a cat's paw?
pg. 193
Who destroyed the Muslim fleet in 1509?
Who is The first Portuguese Viceroy of India, Francisco de Alameida?
pg. 178
Who was one of the most influential pioneer Arab geographers?
Who was the versatile, Al-Biruni?
pg. 183
What expedition within two years visited 36 states?
What is the adventuring six expedition?
pg. 191
Marco Polo said that this enormous bird can consume what?
What is an elephant?
pg. 196
Who were their own Jerusalem?
Who were the Chinese?
pg. 200
What agreement was the most celebrated treaty in European history?
What is the Land to the west of the line would belong to Spain, those eastward to Portugal?
pg. 174
What did the Arabs pioneer in developing?
What is the stern rudder?
pg. 184
Why did the Chinese find it so hard to imagine the community of sovereign nations?
What is only China was truly sovereign, for only China was worthy of sovereignty?
pg. 193
What is salting?
What is a process that required large quantities of pepper in addition to salt and inhibit the unpalatable effects of the salt itself?
pg. 195
What was the first greeting that Captain Major Gama received?
What was "May the devil take thee! What brought you hither?
pg. 176