The World c.1500: Candidates for Overseas Expansion

Which Chinese dynasty launched the voyages led by admiral Zheng He?

• Tang

• Song

• Yuan

• Ming

What animal did one of the Ming voyages bring back to China, which officials subsequently identified as a qilin (which appears only at times of good governance)?

• lion

• giraffe

• ostrich

• zebra

Internal disunity & a lack of ships or navy was a weakness of which potential world power c.1500?

• Mughal India

• Ming China

• Ottoman Turkey

• all of the above

What did the Ottomans accomplish in 1453?

• a cure for small pox

• conquest of India

• discovery of the New World

• conquest of Constantinople

The Ottomans renamed Constantinople ____________

• Istanbul

• Baghdad

• Mecca

• Ankara

True or False: The Voyages of Zheng He discovered the New World in 1421

• True

• False

The Hungarian artillery expert, Orban, is an example of this

• internal disunity of the Mughal Empire

• Confucian reverence for stability

• early Ottoman pragmatic flexibility

• the great wealth of Ming China

Who was Aurangzeb?

• the Ottoman sultan who conquered Constantinople

• the Mughal Emperor who built the Taj Mahal

• the Ming Emperor who sponsored Zheng He's voyages

• the Mughal Emperor who ended tolerance of Hinduism

Which of the following best describes Europe in the era prior to European expansion?

• internally wealthy & self-sufficient

• ideologically unified under the banner of Islam

• politically fragmented

• uninterested in wealth & luxury goods from the East

Which world region was unmotivated to engage with the outside world due to its internal wealth & abundance of resources

• Europe

• China

• India

• Middle East

• Africa