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Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.

What is Christopher Columbus

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What wast the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.
What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.
100
During the 1400s, how did many Europeans view the world as being?
What is flat
100

Describe Japan's opinion of Europe

Disliked - Became HYPER isolationist until 1860s

100

Led the Chinese Expeditions

Zheng He

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore?

GOLD GOD AND GLORY

200
What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"
What is .... 1. Glory (Fame and developing strong reputation) 2 Gold (trade routes to Asia and to become wealthy) 3. God (to spread Christianity)
200

Soldier/Politician in Feudal Japan

Samurai
200

Dynasty that built great achievements such as the Great Wall and Terracotta Army.

Qin Dynasty

300

a Portuguese explorer, soldier and prince. Although he rarely participated in explorations, he sent many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Great Age of Exploration. His school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation.

What is Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator)

300
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300
Who was Oda Nobunaga?

Shogun who ruthlessly tried to unite Japan but met too much opposition to be sucessful.

300

Dynasty that saw China be united for the longest amount of time and also modernized governing practices.

Han Dynasty

400
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
400

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

What is divided the land in the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal

400
Explain the Triangular Trade, one of the effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is 1. Tobacco, sugar, grown products to Europe 2. Tea, manufactured goods, etc. made from raw materials from the New World. These goods were sent to the colonies of Africa and eventually the colonies of the "new world". 3. Slaves from Africa were sent to the "new world".
400

Who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi?

Oda Nobunaga's best general who carried on his legacy to successfully unite Japan.

400

Dynasty that rose from rebellion and was POWERFUL. Led expeditions of trade and exploration.

Ming

500
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
500

What was the MAIN point of Chinese Expeditions?

Prove China's power and greatness

500
Spanish explorer and conquistador, he helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru and the Incas, founded its capital city, Lima.
What is Francisco Pizarro
500

What was the Tokugawa Shogunate?

"Dynasty" of Japan that saw peace for nearly 300 years.

500

What was the "kowtow" ritual and how does it accurately describe China's relationship with Europe?

Demanded respect from visitors


Europe didn't want to do it - Europe wasn't welcome