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Section 1
What important discovery did Vasco Da Gama make?
first European to sail to India
What important discovery did Ferdinand Magellan make?
first to circumnavigate the globe
What important disccovery did Christopher Columbus make?
new world
What important discovery did James Cook make?
Hawaii
What important discovery did Samuel de Champlain make?
founded Quebec
What was the name given to the exchange of products and diseases from old to new and new to old worlds?
Columbian Exchange
Name two developments in seafaring technology that allowed European sailors to sail farther and farther into the Atlantic Ocean.
Astrolabe, Compass, Lateen Sails
Section 2
Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire?
Osman Bay
What Ottoman leader stretched the western boundaries of the Empire into Eastern Europe?
Suleyman the Magnificent
What were the powerful slave soldiers of the Ottoman Empire called?
Janissaries
Who founded the Safavid Dynasty?
Ismail
What present day country did the Safavids occupy?
Iran
What leader founded the Mughal Dynasty in India?
Babur
What religion were all the leaders of the Gunpowder Empires?
Islamic
What religion were all the Mughals especially tolerant of in India?
Hindu
Section 3
Who founded the Tokugawa Shongunate?
Ieyasu
What were the Japanese warriors called during this time period?
Samurai
What “code of conduct” did the Samurai warriors live by?
Code of Bushido
What was the title given to the large, militaristic landowners in Japan?
Shogun
What Chinese ruler expanded China’s landholdings in the mid-1600’s?
Kangxi
What Chinese explorer sailed in many ports and islands in the Indian Ocean?
Zheng He
(Questions and answers from GVL, World History)