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| 6011878355 | Who was Vasco de Gama? | sailed around the Cape of Good Hope voyages opened way for the Europeans to sail to the Indies | 0 | |
| 6011878356 | What were de Gama's achievements? | rounded the cape of good hope Portuguese victory over Spain- route to Indies | 1 | |
| 6011878357 | What did de Gama find out when he reached Calicut in India? | Their goods had little appeal to the Indians had to use silver bullion | 2 | |
| 6011878358 | Define caravel ships. | small manueverable, sailing ship developed by the portuguese. sailed against the wind | 3 | |
| 6011878359 | what was the ultimate task of the europeans from the 14th century onward? | To find a sea link between Europe and Asia | 4 | |
| 6011878360 | what factor led the europeans to believe that they would make no headway with the kingdoms of Asia? | large populations and well entrenched political and economic systems of Asian kingdoms | 5 | |
| 6011878361 | what was the portuguese lesson learned at Calicut? What was the initial portuguese response to the encounter at Calicut? | Asia had no interest in their products learned that only military force would allow them to break into the trade | 6 | |
| 6011878362 | List the disappointments of the Europeans who arrived in Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries. | few asians interested in Christianity asian culture was thriving and diverse asians were not interested in European trade goods too few europeans to extend force over asian force | 7 | |
| 6011878363 | Which group preceded the Portuguese in entering the market of south and southeast asia? | Muslims | 8 | |
| 6011878364 | Define Asian Trading Network. | Arab Zone (west)- glass, carpet, tapestry- Red Sea and Persian Gulf Indian Zone-cotton textiles- Central Zone Chinese zone (eastern)-paper, porcelain, silk- China All of these products were traded: gems, salt, cinammon, cotton textiles | 9 | |
| 6011878365 | What was the importance of the mainland kingdoms and island states of Southeast Asia? | fed mainly raw materials, precious metals, forest materials Japan and Port cities of Eastern Africa | 10 | |
| 6011878366 | What items were traded long distances? What raw material was most valued? | luxury items such as spices, ivory, precious stones, silk cotton. Silk | 11 | |
| 6011878367 | How were bulk items such as rice, livestock, and timber traded? | exchanged within the ports rather than over great distances | 12 | |
| 6011878368 | How was navigation done along the Asian network? | passed along coastal routes ,charting distances with reference to towns and landmarks | 13 | |
| 6011878369 | What was the importance of the straits of Malacca? | crucial point where the Asian sea trade converged | 14 | |
| 6011878370 | What were the 2 general characteristics of the trading system at the time of the portuguese arrival critical to European attempts to regulate and dominate? | no central control lack of military- arab traders had no sense of common cause | 15 | |
| 6011878371 | Who were mercantilists? | they believed that the more money you had the more powerful you were 17th to 18th century | 16 | |
| 6011878372 | why did the Portuguese decide to use force to extract goods from asia? | Europeans did not have enough people to enter peacefully | 17 | |
| 6011878373 | What was the importance of the Battle of Diu in 1509? | Portuguese won over a combined fleet of Egyptian and Indian vessels. Portuguese would never face an alliance of Asian sea powers again | 18 | |
| 6011878374 | Name the ports that the portuguese established in the early 16th century? | Ormuz on the Persian Gulf in 1507 Goa in western India in 1510 Malacca in the Malayan peninsula Calicut naval bases and factories | 19 | |
| 6011878375 | What did the portuguese want a monopoly over? | asian products especially spices to dictate higher prices over goods | 20 | |
| 6011878376 | Were the portuguese successful in their monopoly over the Asian trading network? | not enough soldiers or ships to sustain monopolies | 21 | |
| 6011878377 | Who emerged as the Portuguese declined? | Dutch | 22 | |
| 6011878378 | What was Batavia? | Chief Dutch trading fortress and port are located in southeast asia. island of Japan 1620 | 23 | |
| 6011878379 | Define the Dutch trading empire. | resembled the portuguese, better armed ships and controlled the monopoly better peacefully exploited the established system | 24 | |
| 6011878380 | How were the Dutch better than the Portuguese? | better ships and better efficiency more profit and more of an monopoly | 25 | |
| 6011878381 | How was the dutch commercial strategy different from the portuguese? | regulate supply of nutmeg, destroyed the plants on islands they didnt control | 26 | |
| 6011878382 | How did the dutch find great profits? | gained peacefully by wotking themselves into the Asian trading system | 27 | |
| 6011878383 | List the areas of the Philippines the Spanish were able to conquer? | Luzon, Leyete, Java, Shulong | 28 | |
| 6011878384 | Describe the European regimes once they went ashore. | closely resembled those the spanish imposed on Native Americans indigenous peoples lived in their traditional settlements | 29 | |
| 6011878385 | Roman catholic missionaries had the greatest success converting whom? | Indians and outcast groups | 30 | |
| 6011878386 | Who was Francis Xavier? | Spanish Jesuit missionary, worked in India in the 1540s among the outcast and lowercaste groups helped the poor | 31 | |
| 6011878387 | Who was Robert di Nobili? | Italian Jesuit missionary, worked in India during the 1600s introduced strategy to convert the elites first. later adopted by the Jesuits, mission eventually failed | 32 | |
| 6011878388 | Define Filipinos brand of Christianity | creative blend of traditional beliefs and customs and preached by a friar | 33 | |
| 6011878389 | From what you read:list the European contributions to the Asian trading network | global flow of silver starting in America's and ending in China new routed link Europe and Cape of Good Hope new trading center introduced sea warfare in Asian trade network | 34 | |
| 6011878390 | Who was Hongwu? | first Ming emperor in 1368 drove out Mongol influence | 35 | |
| 6011878391 | What were the reforms introduced by the First Ming emperor? | civil service exam reinstated reinstated scholar gentry abolished chief minister subsidies for colleges | 36 | |
| 6011878392 | What were Hongwu's reforms in court politics? | abolished chief minister all power went to the emperor public beatings | 37 | |
| 6011878393 | What were other measures to decrease factionalism and conspiracies? | public beatings decreased factionalism | 38 | |
| 6011878394 | How did Hongwu improve life for the common people? | promoted public works programs lowered forced labor demands promoted silk and cotton cloth production | 39 | |
| 6011878395 | Describe the gentry households? | bought foreclosed lands from peasants | 40 | |
| 6011878396 | What was the great boost of the people of the Yangzi region? | importation of new food crops from the Americas corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts | 41 | |
| 6011878397 | What was the importance of Macao and Canton? | the only ports that allowed trade between europeans and China during the Ming | 42 | |
| 6011878398 | Where was merchants wealth invested? | land | 43 | |
| 6011878399 | What was the greatest literature accomplishment of the Ming era? | development of the Chinese novel | 44 | |
| 6011878400 | Who was Ming emperor Yungle? Admiral Zheng He? | Yungle- launched a series of sea expeditions Zheng He- 1405-1433 led a series of seven expeditions | 45 | |
| 6011878401 | Why did the Chinese stop the commercial voyages of Zheng He expeditions? | little value to import and trade | 46 | |
| 6011878402 | What did Jesuit missionaries recognize? | that their scientific knowledge and technical skills were the keys to maintaining a presence at the Ming court and eventually interesting the Chinese elite in Christianity | 47 | |
| 6011878403 | Who were Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall? | few converts to christianity spent much time in the imperial city | 48 | |
| 6011878404 | List the reasons for Ming decline | retreat from overseas involvement incompetant rulers highly centralized structure became a liability under incompetant rulers official corruption famine, drought, cannibalism | 49 | |
| 6011878405 | What group took control over China after the collapse of the Ming dynasty? | Jurchens or the Manchus | 50 | |
| 6011878406 | Who was Oda Nobunaga? | Japanese daiymo; first to make extensive use of firearms | 51 | |
| 6011878407 | Who was Toyomi Hideyoshi? | general under Nobunaga, succeeded as a leading military power in central Japan Military master of Japan in 1590 | 52 | |
| 6011878408 | What year was the Tokugawa shogunate founded? | 1603 | 53 | |
| 6011878409 | What was Edo? | Tokugawa capital city, modern day Tokyo | 54 | |
| 6011878410 | What was traded between Europe and Asia? | silver, copper, pottery, lacquerware | 55 | |
| 6011878411 | Why did the Japanese military centralizers accept Christian missionaries? | counterforce to the militant Buddhist orders that were resisting his rise to power | 56 | |
| 6011878412 | What led to measures to restrict foreign activities in Japan? | doubts about European intention fears that merchants and missionaries might subvert the existing social order | 57 | |
| 6011878413 | How were Christians treated under Hideyoshi? | persecuted Christians forced them to leave | 58 | |
| 6011878414 | Under Ieyasu, what was life like in Japan? | persecution of christians banned christianity Japanese ships could not trade | 59 | |
| 6011878415 | Define school of national learning. | new ideology that laid emphasis on Japan's historical experience and the revival of indigenous culture at the expense of chinese imports | 60 | |
| 6011878416 | List the policies imposed as a result of Japanese isolation in the 17th century | christianity was banned revival of neo confucianism philosophy western boats banned only could trade at Deshina island | 61 |
