quiz IV

Question 1

1. This was the name for the academic and cultural ‘rebirth’ of Europe

Answer 1

Renaissance

Question 2

In what two ways did Europeans receive new or old information?

Answer 2

Mongols (any two)

caliphates, or Crusades

Question 3

What did they receive from the Mongols?

Answer 3

Gunpowder

Question 4

What four things did they receive from the Arabs and other Muslims?

Answer 4

Printing (any four)
Astrolabes
Diagnosis
Lateen sails, hospitals, traveling clinics

Question 5

What did they receive from conquered part of the Middle East from 1095-1291?

Answer 5

Greco-Roman Logic / skepticism

Question 6

Provide four new technologies or techniques used to enhance European exploration.

Answer 6

caravel (any four)
portolan maps
astrolabe
compass, trade winds, westerlies, stern-post rudder

Question 7

Which wind patterns blew west, from western Africa to the Caribbean?

Answer 7

Trade Winds

Question 8

Which wind pattern blew east, from the present-day US to northern Europe?

Answer 8

Westerlies

Question 9

Europeans were motivated to explore for Gold, gold, and glory. What did the ‘God’ represent?

Answer 9

Spreading Christianity

Question 10

What did the ‘gold’ represent?

Answer 10

riches

Question 11

What did the ‘glory’ represent?

Answer 11

identity / pride

Question 12

Which five European states began exploring in the 16th and 17th centuries?

Answer 12

Netherlands (any order)
Spain
England
France
Portugal

Question 13

What was the term used to describe kings, princes, and lords funding exploration?

Answer 13

royal patronage

Question 14

. What was the term used to describe regular people funding exploration by paying for portions of the costs?

Answer 14

joint stock

Question 15

Who funded these first voyages along the western coast of Africa?

Answer 15

Henry the Navigator

Question 16

Who found the route to India around the tip of Africa?

Answer 16

Vasco de Gama

Question 17

What was the role of Europeans in Asian trade after exploration?

Answer 17

facilitating trade

Question 18

Who had ‘trade-post’ empires in the 1500s (16th century)?

Answer 18

Portugal

Question 19

What was the name of the tax put on trade by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean?

Answer 19

cartaz

Question 20

Who had the first massive conquest-based colonial empire in the 1500s (16th century)?

Answer 20

Spanish

Question 21

Which conquistador ‘conquered’ the Aztecs?

Answer 21

Cortez

Question 22

Which conquistador ‘conquered’ the Incans?

Answer 22

Pizarro

Question 23

Which three European countries followed the first two’s footsteps in the 1600s (17th century)?

Answer 23

England (any order)
Netherlands
France

Question 24

What was the name of the new European economic policy/technique for colonial empires?

Answer 24

mercantilism

Question 25

Why is it referred to as the ‘fixed wealth’ system?

Answer 25

They believed there was only certain amount of money in the world

Question 26

What were the two parts of the strategy for this new economic policy?

Answer 26

tariffs (more exports than imports) (any order) | sabotaging or stealing rival trade

Question 27

This is the term used to describe goods being sold to another country.

Answer 27

exports

Question 28

This is the term used to describe goods being purchased from another country.

Answer 28

imports

Question 29

What was the name of the type of companies who were allowed to settle colonies for their mother country?

Answer 29

charter companies

Question 30

Provide a specific example company.

Answer 30

British East India, Dutch East India, London, or Virginia Companies

Question 31

This is the name of the shogun who united Japan in the 17th century

Answer 31

Tokugawa

Question 32

What brand of Christianity made it to Japan in the 17th century?

Answer 32

Catholicism

Question 33

What was the name of the rebellion put down by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1637?

Answer 33

Shimabara

Question 34

What was Japan’s response to the rebellion and its ‘foreign’ influence.

Answer 34

banned foreigners

Question 35

. What was the name of the policy described in #48?

Answer 35

Sakoku

Question 36

Which European country continued trade with Japan throughout the 17th century?

Answer 36

Netherlands/Dutch

Question 37

Provide four goods transported from the New World to the Old World.

Answer 37

tomatoes (any four) potatoes tobacco corn, cacao, etc.

Question 38

Provide four goods transported from the Old World to the New World.

Answer 38

rice (any four) wheat okra coffee, sugar, domesticated animals, etc.

Question 39

What was the name of the exchange of these goods in the 16th century?

Answer 39

Columbian Exchange

Question 40

Provide the five Atlantic States that established maritime empires in the Early Modern Era.

Answer 40

``` Spain (any order) Portugal England Netherlands France ```

Question 41

This the name for land grants to conquistadors in the Early Modern Era.

Answer 41

encomienda

Question 42

This is the name of the feudal rulers of these land grants.

Answer 42

encomienderas

Question 43

This is the name of the individual ranches, mines, and plantations on these land grants.

Answer 43

haciendas

Question 44

Provide, in order from most-to-least esteemed, the racial hierarchy established in the Spanish New World.

Answer 44

``` Peninsulare Creole Mestizo Mulatto Zambo ```

Question 45

This is the practice of establishing overseas colonies to provide wealth and resources to the mother countries.

Answer 45

colonialism

Question 46

. Provide three types of merchants from Asia that continued to thrive despite European domination in the early modern Era.

Answer 46

Omanis (any order) Gujaratis Javanese