Week 19 World History: Age of Explorations & Isolation 1400-1800

 

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This world history resource focuses the age of exploration
and isolation in 1400 to 1800 and includes quiz questions
and answers and video links to related topics.

I utilized World History: Patterns of Interaction (Holt McDougal) for our world history textbook. It has multiple options for different learning styles and covers a wide array of information.

This quiz accompanies Chapter 19: pages 526-549.

Directions for the quiz:

• Scroll down and click on the thumbnail to enlarge to full screen.
• Click on the graphic to advance to the next screen.
• Choose an answer for each question.
• Compare your answers with those provided.

If you are interested in a group and/or interactive version of this quiz, visit Kahoot! and search for Week 19 World History by Katrena_Wells.

Below are free videos to accompany chapter 19:

• Prince Henry the Navigator
• How does a compass work
• How to use a sextant
• Bartolomeu Dias
• Columbus, Vasco da Gama, & Zheng He
• Crash Course: Medieval China
• The Forbidden City
• Qing Dynasty
• Samurai, Daimyo, Matthew Perry, & Nationalism
• What is a Haiku
• Kabuki Theater

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World History Week 19 Age of Explorations & Isolation 1400-1800

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Which of the following advances helped Europeans
travel to Asia and back in the 1400s?
Answer choices include:
Triangular sails allowed caravels to sail against the wind.
The magnetic compass heped explorers to track direction.
The astrolabe helped sailors to calculate latitude.
All of these.

The correct answer is: All of these.

Prince Henry led which European country to explore the coasts of Africa & India?
Answer choices include: Spain, England, Portugal, Italy

The correct answer is Portugal.

Spain sponsored ____ & his plans to sail west across
the Atlantic Ocean hoping to reach the East Indes.
Answer choices include: Christopher Columbus, Barolomeu Dias,
Vasco da Gama, Alfonso de Albuquerque

The correct answer is Christopher Columbus.

In the 1600s, ____ seized trading ports in Malacca,
the Spice Islands, much of Indonesia, and the Cape of Good Hope.
Answer choices include: France, Greece, The Netherlands, Gambia

The correct answer is: The Netherlands

_____ led seven large scale Chinese expeditions from
Southeast Asia to eastern Africa until 1433, when China isolated itself.
Answer choices include: Yonglo, Hongwu, Matteo Ricci, Zheng He

The correct answer is Zheng He.

Yonglo’s palace complex in the new
capital of Beijing is called the ______.
Answer choices include: White House,
Palace of Versailles, Kremlin Palace, Forbidden City

The correct answer is Forbidden City.

What typically symbolizes the imperial family in China?
Answer choices include: koi, dragon, meerkat, panda

The correct answer is dragon.

By 1800, what commodity made up 80% of shipments from China to Europe?
Answer choices include: spices, jade, tea, enslaved persons

The correct answer is tea.

In the 1600s & 1700s, China’s population decreased drastically
and Chinese families highly favored girl babies over boys.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is false.

After years of Japan’s Sengoku period, ____ became the shogun
& moved Japan’s capital to what would later be called Tokyo.
Answer choices include: Tokugawa Ieyasu,
Oda Nobunaga, Hirohito, Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The correct answer is Tokugawa Ieyasu.

____ is a popular type of Japanese poetry with
three lines containing 5-7-5 syllables.
Answer choices include: Cinquain, Limerick, Haiku, Sonnet

The correct answer is Haiku.

Which of the following is TRUE regarding Kabuki theaters of the 1700s?
Answer choices include:
Actors wore simple costumes & very little makeup.
Only women were allowed to be actors.
Only Japanese citizens were permitted entrance to the theater.
A woman created Kubuki Theater.

The correct answer is: A woman created Kabuki theater.

In the 1500s, the daimyo were particularly interested in people
sailing to Japan from other lands because they brought ____.
Answer choices include: weapons, rugs, books, spices

The correct answer is weapons.

After a 1637 rebellion, the shogun began to persecute
Christians and forced all Japanese citizens to be faithful to Buddhism.
Answer choices include: true, false

The correct answer is true.

By 1639 and continuing for more than 200 years,
Japan had a/n “______ policy.”
Answer choices include: open door, closed country,
wait and see, shoot or be shot

The correct answer is closed country.

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