Age of Exploration Test Review

What contributed to the decline of both the Ottoman and Safavid Empires?

• natural disasters

• disruption in trade

• religious rebellion

• incompetent leadership

What did Suleyman the Lawgiver and Akbar have in common?

• Architecture, the arts, and literature flourished under their rule

• Specially trained foreign slaves the core of their armies

• Both appointed Hindus to high government positions

• They both ruled the Ottoman Empire

The caravel was an important development in navigation because it was able to do all EXCEPT

• sail against the wind

• sail in shallow waters

• withstand storms at sea

• carry large numbers of crew members

During the 1500s, what was China's official trade policy?

• China openly traded with all European countries

• Only the government was allowed to trade with foreign countries.

• China traded only with Japan and other Asian countries.

• The government lowered taxes to promote trade.

Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa and continue on to India?

• Vasco da Gama
• Prince Henry

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Christopher Columbus

What type of policy did Japan institute to control foreign ideas?

• A closed country policy

• a policy of persecution

• a policy of colonization

• a Zen Buddhist policy

Europeans' main motives for making voyages of exploration were to

• test their new technology

• grow wealthy and spread Christianity

• break the Portuguese monopoly on trade

• gain extra land for a growing population.

Zheng He was important because he

• was China's first Chinese emperor

• was China's first non-Chinese emperor

• led seven Chinese overseas explorations

• overthrew the Mongol rule

What were China's main reasons for rejecting British offers of trade?

• British merchants decided they didn't need Chinese goods.

• Britain wanted to be the exclusive trading partner with China

• China's emperor did not like the gifts the British merchants offered.

• China believed it was self-sufficient and didn't need outside goods.

The major barrier to effective centralized government in Japan was the

• power of the daimyo

• difficulties of collecting taxes

• dissatisfaction of the peasant class

• interference from Christian missionaries