Transcript Ch 15 Changing balance The Rise of the West Jeopardy

JEOPARDY
The World in 1450
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China
Rise of the West
The Renaissance
Important People
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What was the compass?
This was the navigational instrument that was
discovered in China and by 1300 had
disseminated to Sweden and was essential in
sailing and exploration
What was and is Feng Shui?
This was the ancient Chinese art of aligning
your living quarters with the forces of nature.
Who was Zheng He?
He was the Chinese admiral who commanded
a series of sailing expeditions to Persia, India,
and the Red Sea.
What was “ Brilliant”? ( Sort of egotistical don’t
you think ?)
This the definition of the word Ming from the
Ming Empire.
Who was Emperor Yung Lo?
He was the Ming emperor who
launched the sailing expeditions
and implemented the policy of
expanding trade.
What was due to the high costs and Confucian
rivalries and suspicion of the admiral Zheng He
or Cheng Ho ?
This is why the Ming expeditions
eventually suspended by the
Chinese Emperor.
Who was (Zhu) Ju Yuanzhang?
This man emerged from an impoverished
Chinese family to found the Ming Dynasty
world.
What was Constantinople and 1453?
This Byzantine capital, fell to the
Ottoman Turks in this date.
What were Italy, Spain and Portugal?
These European countries took the
lead in western European outreach
in the 1400s and held that lead for
two centuries.
“Don’t Choke!”
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Who was Dante and the Divine Comedy?
. He was one of the great European (
Italian) writers of the 14th century
and wrote this great work which
helped lay the groundwork for
modern Italian.
What was the lack of gold and the European
need for luxury goods which left a trade
imbalance?
These were some of the factors that
caused an unfavorable balance of
trade between the Middle East and
Europe after the Crusades.
What were Castile and Aragon ?
These European Empires were
unified in marriage in 1469.
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What was the Inquisition?
These two monarchs of Spain
also helped establish the Church
run courts known as this and led
by Torquemada the Queen’s
confessor.
Who were the Vivaldi Brothers?
The two brothers who sailed from
Genoa into the Atlantic in search of
the Indies and were never seen
again. (bummer)
What were the Canary Islands, the Madeiras
and the Azores?
The were the three Atlantic island
chains discovered by Genoese
sailors.
What was the astrolabe?
This was the device that enabled
sailors to determine latitude.
Who was Vasco De Gama?
He was the first Portuguese sailor to
reach India and return with goods
that made enormous profits for the
captain and his crew. ( those that
survived)
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What was the Cape of Good Hope?
This Portuguese nobleman in order to
encourage exploration of the dangerous
waters of South Africa renamed the
Cape of Storms this.
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What were African slaves?
This group of people were also the
first imported by the Portuguese to
help grow and harvest these new
cash crops grown in the Atlantic
islands.
That the world was much smaller according to
recently created maps?
This mistaken assumptions helped
spur exploration from adventurous
European explorers.
“Don’t Choke!”
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What was tobacco, sugar cane and cotton?
These were three examples of new
European cash crops that were
grown in the New World.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
He was the Portuguese nobleman
who sponsored numerous trading
and missionary efforts down the
African coast and beyond.
Who are the Maori?
This is the name of the native
people of New Zealand.
Who was the Venetian, Marco ----- Polo?
He was the most famous European to
visit the court of Kubilai Khan and
establish trading rights with the
Mongols.
Who was Ibn Rusd or Averroes ?
He was the Muslim scholar and philosopher
who espoused Greek rationalism but was
largely ignored in the East.
What were cash crops and especially sugar
cane?
The first European colonial estates were set up
to produce this for wealthy Europeans on the
Continent.
What was the shift from rationalism and
science to mysticism and sufism ?
This shift in philosophy and thinking
occurred in the Islamic world around 1450.
Who was Giotto?
He was the first Italian painter to introduce
perspective into his paintings and once painted
a fly that was so realistic his mentor and Master
painter tried to shoo it away.
Who was Francisco Petrarch?
He was the Italian humanist who translated
works from Greek and Latin into Old Italian
and wrote his Sonnets to Laura.
What were the Inca and the Aztecs?
They were the American empires that were
experiencing problems which made them ripe
for European intervention in the 1500s.