Home > Europe Reaches Out > The Open Seas > Study Questions >
     
The Open Seas
Study Questions

1 .       Europeans measured the altitude of heavenly bodies with the [Hint]



2 .       Spanish and Portuguese shipbuilders developed a type of ship called the [Hint]



3 .       The Portuguese institute for navigation was created by [Hint]



4 .       The first European captain to reach the Indian Ocean was [Hint]



5 .       By 1700, Indian trade with Europe was dominated by the English and the [Hint]



6 .       During the 1630s, Japan [Hint]



7 .       The Moluccas were the source of [Hint]



8 .       The world maps based on Ptolemy's Geography were reasonably accurate. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       The Dutch, English, and French followed Portuguese traders into Asia, but were unable to shake Portugal's dominance of the region. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       In China, European merchants could not control local rulers. [Hint]

 
 


11 .        

To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

Special Characters

Answer choices in this exercise are randomized and will appear in a different order each time the page is loaded.





Copyright © 1995-2010, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall Legal and Privacy Terms