APWH Chapter 21 Expanding Horizons of Cross Cultural Interaction

Question 1

Where did the Renaissance begin?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 2

Which nation did not keep a long-standing army?

Accepted Answer

England

Question 3

Which of the following people helped China establish a Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Zheng He

Question 4

Which form of human position was Donatello and Michelangelo most interested in?

Accepted Answer

Human Strength

Question 5

An Italian sculptor who sought to capture realistic human likeness and lived from 1386 to 1466

Accepted Answer

Donatello

Question 6

Which invention created by the Chinese started to spread westwards because of the Mongols?

Accepted Answer

Gunpowder

Question 7

The most notable of renaissance era humanists, worked to translate and preserve literary works

Accepted Answer

Erasmus

Question 8

Who created a great empire by taking over individual tribal areas and lived from 1162 to 1227?

Accepted Answer

Chinggis Khan

Question 9

How long did Marco Polo stay in China?

Accepted Answer

17 years

Question 10

What was the Yongle encyclopedia?

Accepted Answer

The worlds largest book of records, covering over 600 years.

Question 11

Which empire rejected Christopher Columbus? Which empire accepted Christopher Columbus?

Accepted Answer

Portugal; Spain

Question 12

Which of these areas was strongly affected by the plague?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 13

Who was Hongwu's successor?

Accepted Answer

Emperor Yongle

Question 14

Which educational system did the Ming dynasty reestablish?

Accepted Answer

Confucian

Question 15

What does Renaissance mean?

Accepted Answer

The rebirth of art and learning

Question 16

Portuguese traders traded guns for _____ and _____ in Africa.

Accepted Answer

gold; slaves

Question 17

Bartolomeu Dias reached _______ by sea.

Accepted Answer

The Cape of Good Hope

Question 18

Who possessed the largest marine vessels in the world at the time?

Accepted Answer

Zheng He

Question 19

Which on the following people reached India by sailing past Africa?

Accepted Answer

Vasco de Gama

Question 20

Who sponsored the voyages of Zheng He?

Accepted Answer

Khubilai Khan

Question 21

What happened to the climate in the 14th Century?

Accepted Answer

Cooled

Question 22

Florentine architect who designed & oversaw the construction of a huge dome in Florence, Italy

Accepted Answer

Brunelleschi

Question 23

What method was used to pay for the Hundred Years' War?

Accepted Answer

Taxes

Question 24

Which of the following was one of Prince Henrique's main ambitions?

Accepted Answer

To spread Christianity by sea

Question 25

Who was the Islamic traveler that educated officials on the Islamic law?

Accepted Answer

Ibn Battuta

Question 26

Each of the following are new crops introduced to sub-Saharan Africa by Muslims EXCEPT for...

Accepted Answer

Durian

Question 27

Who were the Manchus? ( There are two answers)

Accepted Answer

Founders of the Qing dynasty, The invaders of the Ming empire

Question 28

An Italian humanist who wished to understand cultures of the world beyond western Europe

Accepted Answer

Pico della

Question 29

Which two people used marriage to unify Spain?

Accepted Answer

Fernando and Isabel

Question 30

Who united Spain?

Accepted Answer

Fernando of Aragon and Isabel of Castile

Question 31

What war was fought between France and England over French territory?

Accepted Answer

Hundred Years' War

Question 32

King Louis Xi was considered...

Accepted Answer

Devious and Disobedient

Question 33

Another Italian sculptor, who lived from 1475 to 1564.

Accepted Answer

Michelangelo

Question 34

What was the mortality rate of the bubonic plague?

Accepted Answer

60-70% died

Question 35

What was the group of mystics who helped spread the Islamic faith?

Accepted Answer

Sufis

Question 36

Emperor Hongwu created which dynasty after dismantling the Mongol hold in China?

Accepted Answer

The Ming dynasty

Question 37

What did the Renaissance Era help develop?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 38

The communicable disease caused by Yersinia pestis present in the 14th Century was called the..

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 39

Unlike France, England was not able to maintain a _____________.

Accepted Answer

Standing Army

Question 40

John of Montecorvino was....

Accepted Answer

The most active of the Roman Catholic missionaries in China

Question 41

An Italian painter, sculptor, architect, mathematician, etc.

Accepted Answer

Da Vinci

Question 42

Vasco de Gama reached _______ by sea.

Accepted Answer

India

Question 43

Which Russian prince declared Russia as an individual state from the Mongols?

Accepted Answer

Grand Prince Ivan III

Question 44

Who was the emperor of China following the collapse of the Yuan dynasty?

Accepted Answer

Emperor Hongwu

Question 45

Under whose rule was the consolidation of China?

Accepted Answer

Khubilai Khan

Question 46

Who had "discovered" America and establish trade routes between the two regions?

Accepted Answer

Christopher Columbus

Question 47

What was the Yuan dynasty?

Accepted Answer

A mongol dynasty

Question 48

The Ming Dynasty traded goods such as _______

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 49

Who was the first great Italian painter of the Quattrocento?

Accepted Answer

Masaccio

Question 50

Which piece of technology helped maritime travelers navigate on the Oceans?

Accepted Answer

The Magnetic Compass

Question 51

Which piece of technology launched European Imperialism in Asia?

Accepted Answer

Ships with Cannons

Question 52

Who was the Christian priest that visited Italy and France as a rep. of the Persian ilkhan?

Accepted Answer

Rabban Sauma

Question 53

Which of the following was thought to have spread the Plague from site to site at the start?

Accepted Answer

Rats

Question 54

Who sponsored Christopher Columbus' search for a western route to China?

Accepted Answer

The Spanish Monarchs

Question 55

The period of enlightenment and developments in knowledge during the 1400 was known as _______.

Accepted Answer

The Renaissance

Question 56

How was the Spanish military financed?

Accepted Answer

Sales tax

Question 57

Which humanist traveled through Europe in search of manuscripts of classical works?

Accepted Answer

Petrarch

Question 58

What group/person took control of China after the Mongolians were overthrown?

Accepted Answer

Ming Dynasty

Question 59

Who was a long-distance traveler sponsored by the Mongols?

Accepted Answer

Marco Polo

Question 60

Where did the bubonic plague begin?

Accepted Answer

Southwest China

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APWH Chapter 21 Expanding Horizons of Cross Cultural Interaction

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