Lesson 3 Quiz: Early Europe, Africa

What was the most important historical effect of the astrolabe?

• It enabled sailors to find their latitude.

• It may have originated in Africa.

• It made possible long voyages beyond sight of land.     

• It spread from Africa or the Middle East to Europe.

How were the Crusades connected to European voyages of exploration?

 

• They spurred a European desire for Asian goods.

      

• They led Europeans to learn that they could conquer other regions.

• They created a fierce rivalry between European and Muslim merchants.

• Transporting troops to the Middle East improved European sailing technology.

The Renaissance occurred as a direct result of

• European voyages of exploration.

• Chinese inventions.

• trade with the Middle East.

• Greek and Latin learning.

China was the most isolated civilization, and yet its technologies were able to change the world mainly because

• they spread through trade.

• they were so advanced.

• Europeans developed them further.

•   the technologies made China less isolated.

Which of the following was a result of the Crusades?

• Christians took over the Holy Land.

      

• Muslims took over much of Portugal and Spain.

• Muslims took over much of Portugal and Spain.

•   Europeans adopted Middle Eastern technologies.

   

. In European feudalism in the Middle Ages, how was the role of lord defined in relation to a monarch?

What is a technological innovation that traveled from the Muslim world to Europe, and what benefit did it bring?

What trade routes became known as the Silk Road?

In what sense was kinship central to many ways of life in early Africa?

How did the invention of the astrolabe help sailors?