Download APWH Chapter 22/23 (FA EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY)

APWH Chapter 22/23 (FA EXTRA CREDIT OPPORTUNITY)
In order to earn full credit for your Chapter 22/23 FA, you will need to answer the following questions using complete sentences and well‐developed paragraphs (when appropriate). Your answers to these questions must be handwritten and they must be YOUR OWN WORK. Pease make sure you write the question and the answer when you turn it in. This extra credit opportunity is due by Monday 3/18 – I will NOT accept it late. 1. How did the Ming dynasty rebuild the economy of China? 2. What were some of the distinctive elements of the artistic Renaissance of Western Europe in the 15th century? 3. How were the Ming Chinese able to establish a forceful presence in the Indian Ocean in the fifteenth century? When and why did this presence cease? 4. What were the Portuguese objectives in the exploration of the coast of West Africa? What did they accomplish? 5. What were some of the common concerns of the Renaissance humanists? How would these goals be expressed today? Does the word humanism mean the same thing today as it did then? 6. What was the significance of Magellan’s voyage of 1519‐1522? What were some of the challenges for explorers of the Pacific Ocean? 7. What factors contributed to the dramatic economic growth and the ensuing population growth of Russia in the eighteenth century? 8. What were some of the striking aspects of the battle for Hormuz, as recounted by Afonso d’Alboquerque (page 614 in the textbook)? What was the strategic importance of Hormuz? 9. How were the English and Dutch trading companies organized and administered? How were there companies able to establish themselves in Asia? 10. What factors led to the Seven Years’ War in the eighteenth century? What was the outcome, globally, of that conflict?