2. JEOPARDY The World in 1450

3. Categories 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 China Rise of the West Important People The Renaissance 100 200 300 400 500 Important Events Vocabulary

4. What was the compass? This was the navigational instrument that was discovered in China and by 1300 had disseminated to Sweden and was essential in sailing and exploration

5. What was and is Feng Shui? This was the ancient Chinese art of aligning your living quarters with the forces of nature.

6. Who was Zheng He? Who was Zheng He? He was the Chinese admiral who commanded a series of sailing expeditions to Persia, India, and the Red Sea.

7. What was “ Brilliant”? ( Sort of egotistical don’t you think ?) What was “ Brilliant”? ( Sort of egotistical don’t you think ?) This the definition of the word Ming from the Ming Empire.

8. Who was Emperor Yung Lo? He was the Ming emperor who launched the sailing expeditions and implemented the policy of expanding trade.

9. What was due to the high costs and Confucian rivalries and suspicion of the admiral Zheng He or Cheng Ho ?. This is why the Ming expeditions eventually suspended by the Chinese Emperor.

10. Who was (Zhu) Ju Yuanzhang? This man emerged from an impoverished Chinese family to found the Ming Dynasty world.

11. What was Constantinople and 1453? This Byzantine capital, fell to the Ottoman Turks in this date.

12. What were Italy, Spain and Portugal? These European countries took the lead in western European outreach in the 1400s and held that lead for two centuries.

13. Daily Double “Don’t Choke!”

14. Who was Dante and the Divine Comedy?.. He was one of the great European ( Italian) writers of the 14 th century and wrote this great work which helped lay the groundwork for modern Italian..

15. What was the lack of gold and the European need for luxury goods which left a trade imbalance?. These were some of the factors that caused an unfavorable balance of trade between the Middle East and Europe after the Crusades.

16. What were Castile and Aragon ?. These European Empires were unified in marriage in 1469..

17. What was the Inquisition? These two monarchs of Spain also helped establish the Church run courts known as this and led by Torquemada the Queen’s confessor.

18. Who were the Vivaldi Brothers? The two brothers who sailed from Genoa into the Atlantic in search of the Indies and were never seen again. (bummer)

19. What were the Canary Islands, the Madeiras and the Azores? The were the three Atlantic island chains discovered by Genoese sailors.

20. What was the astrolabe? This was the device that enabled sailors to determine latitude.

21. Who was Vasco De Gama?. He was the first Portuguese sailor to reach India and return with goods that made enormous profits for the captain and his crew. ( those that survived).

22. What was the Cape of Good Hope?. This Portuguese nobleman in order to encourage exploration of the dangerous waters of South Africa renamed the Cape of Storms this..

23. What were African slaves? This group of people were also the first imported by the Portuguese to help grow and harvest these new cash crops grown in the Atlantic islands.

24. That the world was much smaller according to recently created maps? This mistaken assumptions helped spur exploration from adventurous European explorers.

25. Daily Double “Don’t Choke!”

26. What was tobacco, sugar cane and cotton? These were three examples of new European cash crops that were grown in the New World.

27. Who was Prince Henry the Navigator? He was the Portuguese nobleman who sponsored numerous trading and missionary efforts down the African coast and beyond.

28. Who are the Maori? This is the name of the native people of New Zealand.

29. Who was the Venetian, Marco ----- Polo? He was the most famous European to visit the court of Kubilai Khan and establish trading rights with the Mongols.

30. Who was Ibn Rusd or Averroes ? He was the Muslim scholar and philosopher who espoused Greek rationalism but was largely ignored in the East.

31. What were cash crops and especially sugar cane? The first European colonial estates were set up to produce this for wealthy Europeans on the Continent.

32. What was the shift from rationalism and science to mysticism and sufism ? This shift in philosophy and thinking occurred in the Islamic world around 1450.

33. Who was Giotto? He was the first Italian painter to introduce perspective into his paintings and once painted a fly that was so realistic his mentor and Master painter tried to shoo it away.

34. Who was Francisco Petrarch? He was the Italian humanist who translated works from Greek and Latin into Old Italian and wrote his Sonnets to Laura.

35. What were the Inca and the Aztecs? They were the American empires that were experiencing problems which made them ripe for European intervention in the 1500s.