Tech Quiz #1 (1200-1500)

This innovation allowed merchants to carry more goods across overland trade routes.

• an astrolabe

• the printing press

• a caravanserai

• a camel saddle

This agricultural innovation allowed for the support of populations in early modern civilizations.

• stern-post rudder

• lateen sail

• champa rice

• printing press

This is the name for the art and science of mapmaking

• alchemy

• cartography

• calligraphy

• cuneiform

This device developed in China, which oriented travelers to the polar north, allowed for mariners to navigate course more accurately.

• astrolabe

• sextant

• magnetic compass

• sonar

Gunpowder, first developed by the Chinese, was used in a successful military application to break down the walls of Constantinople by this empire...

• Ottomans

• Russians

• Safavids

• Mughals

A Dutch trading ship is known as a...

• carrack

• junk

• caravel

• fluyt

This device allowed mariners to know where they were in relation to the equator.

• sextant

• astrolabe

• magnetic compass

• astronomical charts

Gutenberg gets credit for this innovation, but China had it first...

• paper

• calligraphy

• woodblock printing

• epic poetry

The "rest-stops" of overland trade were known as

• trading posts

• travelers guilds

• ortoghs

• caravanserai

This Chinese innovation allowed ships to functionally steer.

• magnetic compass

• Lateen sails

• stern-post rudder

• astrolabe