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Who were the driving forces of the Afro-Eurasian economy in the 1400s?
Why were these countries the driving forces? - ✔✔China and India.
Why were China and India the driving forces of the Afro-Eurasian economy
during the 1400s? - ✔✔Both had the largest global populations and the
largest volume of imported and exported goods.
How does having a large population contribute to a strong economy? -
✔✔Increase in Trade. More Workers. More goods were created.
How did goods typically travel in the 1400s? - ✔✔Goods leave Asia and
travel to Italy. From there, the goods would be dispersed to other European
Seaports.
What does diffused mean? - ✔✔Spread.
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Besides merchandise, what else was shipped around the world in the
1400s? - ✔✔Ideas, cultures, politics, religious and technological ideas were
diffused.
What did the diffusion of goods and ideas in the 1400's lead to? -
✔✔Collective Learning.
Define collective learning. - ✔✔The ability to share information so efficiently
that the ideas of individuals can be stored within the collective memory of
communities and can accumulate through generations.
What did collective learning lead to in the 1400's? - ✔✔An increase of new
ideas and innovations around the world, especially in Europe.
What did explorers from the Iberian Peninsula find in their longer voyages?
- ✔✔New sea routes and new land. These explorers were searching more
for new land, not money.
What group of explorers came from the Iberian Peninsula? - ✔✔Spain and
Portugal.
LAND EQUALS _____________! - ✔✔POWER
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What did European explorations lead to? - ✔✔The opening of new oceanic
passages.Increased European power economically, politically, and
culturally on the world scene.
What geographic benefits do European explorers have over Asian
explorers? - ✔✔Easier routes to more land and oceanic access.
What are some benefits of the newly discovered oceanic passages? -
✔✔Increased global exchange of goods.
Increase volume and speed of diffused goods, ideas, and information.
Increased globalization (the process by which the world becomes more
connected).
What are the motivations for European Exploration of the new world? -
✔✔Land=Power
God- Roman Catholics wanted to convert non-believers of Christianity (aka.
missionaries).
Gold- Increase demand in the west for luxury goods from Asia to Africa.
Glory- Individual fame and honor in service to God/Church/Ruler.
In 1492, who sailed from Spain with the intention of crossing the entire
Atlantic Ocean and to land in Asia? - ✔✔Christopher Columbus.
SDC World History Challenge Exam
Review Questions and Answers 100%
Solved
Who were the driving forces of the Afro-Eurasian economy in the 1400s?
Why were these countries the driving forces? - ✔✔China and India.
Why were China and India the driving forces of the Afro-Eurasian economy
during the 1400s? - ✔✔Both had the largest global populations and the
largest volume of imported and exported goods.
How does having a large population contribute to a strong economy? -
✔✔Increase in Trade. More Workers. More goods were created.
How did goods typically travel in the 1400s? - ✔✔Goods leave Asia and
travel to Italy. From there, the goods would be dispersed to other European
Seaports.
What does diffused mean? - ✔✔Spread.
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Besides merchandise, what else was shipped around the world in the
1400s? - ✔✔Ideas, cultures, politics, religious and technological ideas were
diffused.
What did the diffusion of goods and ideas in the 1400's lead to? -
✔✔Collective Learning.
Define collective learning. - ✔✔The ability to share information so efficiently
that the ideas of individuals can be stored within the collective memory of
communities and can accumulate through generations.
What did collective learning lead to in the 1400's? - ✔✔An increase of new
ideas and innovations around the world, especially in Europe.
What did explorers from the Iberian Peninsula find in their longer voyages?
- ✔✔New sea routes and new land. These explorers were searching more
for new land, not money.
What group of explorers came from the Iberian Peninsula? - ✔✔Spain and
Portugal.
LAND EQUALS _____________! - ✔✔POWER
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What did European explorations lead to? - ✔✔The opening of new oceanic
passages.Increased European power economically, politically, and
culturally on the world scene.
What geographic benefits do European explorers have over Asian
explorers? - ✔✔Easier routes to more land and oceanic access.
What are some benefits of the newly discovered oceanic passages? -
✔✔Increased global exchange of goods.
Increase volume and speed of diffused goods, ideas, and information.
Increased globalization (the process by which the world becomes more
connected).
What are the motivations for European Exploration of the new world? -
✔✔Land=Power
God- Roman Catholics wanted to convert non-believers of Christianity (aka.
missionaries).
Gold- Increase demand in the west for luxury goods from Asia to Africa.
Glory- Individual fame and honor in service to God/Church/Ruler.
In 1492, who sailed from Spain with the intention of crossing the entire
Atlantic Ocean and to land in Asia? - ✔✔Christopher Columbus.
