World History Note Outline
Ch. 19- Age of Exploration
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For “God, Glory, and Gold”
a. How did the Renaissance affect exploration?
b. What also encouraged exploration?
c. Why did Europe want to expand their trade routes to Asia?
d. Why was the price of the spices so expensive?
e. Who controlled the trade from East to West before exploration?
i. Why did the Europeans want to bypass these people?
f. War between Christians and Muslims
i. What duty did the Christians feel they had?
g. Bartolomeu Dias
h. Technology
i. What problem did European ships have before the 1400s?
ii. Caravel
iii. Triangular sail
iv. Astrolabe
v. Magnetic compass
Portugal leads the way
a. Why was Portugal able to lead the way in exploration?
b. Prince Henry
i. Navigation school
ii. Portuguese posts along the western coast of Africa
c. What sea route was Portugal trying to establish?
d. Batrolomeu Dias
i. How far did he reach?
ii. Why did he not go farther?
e. Vasco da Gama
i. How far did he go?
ii. What did he come home with?
Spain also makes claims
a. Christopher Columbus
i. What route did he want to explore?
ii. Where did he end up?
iii. Where did he think he ended up?
b. Line of Demarcation
i. Treaty of Tordesillas
Trading empires in the Indian Ocean
a. Who takes control of trading in the Indian Ocean from the Muslims?
i. Goa
ii. Spice Islands
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iii. Why did many Europeans like that Portugal took control of the trading routes?
b. The Dutch and English challenge the Portuguese
i. Dutch East India Company
ii. The Dutch control the Cape of Good Hope
iii. England and France in India
China under the powerful Ming Dynasty
a. What was the purpose of countries paying China a tribute?
i. Who did they expect to pay it to them?
b. Hongwu
i. Mongols driven out of China
ii. Ming Dynasty formed
iii. What good changes did he bring to China?
iv. Why did he become a tyrant?
c. Yonglo
i. Beijing
ii. 7 voyages of exploration
1. Why did he send his fleet on these voyages?
2. Zheng He
3. Why did some Chinese not like these voyages?
d. Trade with outsiders in China in the 1500s
i. Who did the trading with foreigners?
e. What are the two reasons why China did not become industrialized?
Manchus found the Qing Dynasty
a. The Manchus invade China
i. Qing Dynasty replaces the Ming Dynasty
b. Why did many Chinese resist this dynasty?
i. What religious beliefs did they try to uphold?
ii. Kangxi
1. What positive changes did he try to make to the empire?
c. For 2000 years what did the Chinese believe about their kingdom?
d. What had to happen if outsiders wanted to trade with China?
i. What were the rules?
ii. Who followed the rules?
iii. Who did not?
Life in Ming and Qing China
a. What led to a boom in population during the reign of these dynasties?
b. How were sons thought of compared to daughters?
Japan: A new feudalism under strong leaders
a. What effects did the civil war in 1467 have on Japan?
b. Who seized control of Japan during the warring states period in Japan?
i. Daimyo
ii. Samurai
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c. Oda Nobunaga
i. What did he want to do?
ii. Kyoto
iii. Seppuku
d. Toyotomi Hideyoshi
i. What did he try to do?
e. Tokugawa Ieyasu
i. What was he able to do that no one before could do?
ii. Shogun
iii. Edo(Tokyo)
iv. What would he require the daimyo to do to keep an eye on them?
v. Tokugawa Shogunate
vi. Why did most people like these rulers?
Life in Tokugawa Japan
a. What power did the emperor have?
b. Who had the real power?
c. What religion did they follow?
d. Haikus
e. Kabuki
Contact between Europe and Japan
a. Who were the first Europeans to trade with Japan?
b. What did the daimyo want from the Europeans?
i. What impact did these goods have on the traditional samurai?
c. Why did the shogun decide to ban Christianity in Japan?
i. What happened in 1637?
ii. How did the shogun react?
d. What did the shoguns not like about the Europeans being in Japan?
i. How did they stop this from happening?
The closed country policy
a. How many ports were open to outsiders?
i. Nagasaki
ii. Who were the only outsiders that could trade there?
iii. Japanese were forbidden to leave for what reason?
b. Japan is self-sufficient