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100
This person brought exotic animals to China.
Who is Zheng He?
100
Degrading ritual that foreign ambassadors had to do when paying tribute to the Chinese in the 1400s.
What is 'kowtow'?
100
1492
What is the year that Christopher Columbus 'found' the Americas?
100
The Age of Exploration coincides with this equally important period in history.
What is the Renaissance?
100
Spain's colony in the far east (after sailing the trade winds).
What are the Philippines?
200
Home to Vasco de Gama, this country boasted a large school with many maps for mariners.
What is Portugal?
200
The names of the winds that Columbus used to navigate the Atlantic Ocean.
What are the 'trade' and 'south' winds?
200
This country did not need to import resources.
What is China?
200
The two things for which the Portuguese were looking.
What are gold and Christians?
200
The container for the oldest know copy of the Quran in west Africa.
What is a shoe box?
300
Pope Alexander V drew this line.
What is the 'Demarcation Line', which divided the world between Portugal and Spain?
300
Former desert metropolis that currently houses the oldest known Quran in west Africa.
What is Chinguetti?
300
The Portuguese created this in the Indian Ocean.
What is a 'trading empire'?
300
The name of the Muslim sacred text (similar to the Christian Bible).
What is the Quran?
300
This helped to fuel the Renaissance.
What are African gold and ivory?
400
Columbus landed here.
What are 'The Bahamas'?
400
The term for navigation by speed, time and direction.
What is 'dead reckoning'?
400
These winds are higher in the atmosphere than surface winds.
What are 'jet streams'?
400
Columbus' grasp of this was much greater than his knowledge of this.
What is geography?
400
One of the fastest changing landscapes on Earth.
What are sand dunes?
500
The oldest European building in existence south of the Sahara. It was built in 1482 by the Portuguese.
What is the El Mina building? (also known as Elmina Castle)
500
One of Portugal's nautical advantages.
What is Prince Henry the Navigator's school of nautical learning?
500
This developed within 150 years of Columbus reaching the Bahamas.
What is a global trade network?