NJROTC EXAM MARITIME HISTORY 1 SEA POWER & EARLY WESTERN CIVILIZATION

1.      Who where the firstt people known to use sea power trade and military power?

2.     What where early warships, which were crewed by trained fighting men and propelled by oars as well as sails, called?

3.      For many centuries after the fall of Rome in 476 A.D., Europe suffered in the turmoil of the Dark Ages while the
    Middle East, North Africa, and Eastern Mediterranean fell under the control what empire or nation?

4.      The capital city of the Byzantine Empire was ______________.

5.      The longest period of peace in world history was known as the ______________ period.

6.      What ancient people developed the basis for oOur alphabet?

7.      What famous war was fought to secure control of the Turkish Straits/Dardenelles in order to insure Greek control
    of the Aegean-Black Sea trade?

8.      What city is known as the birthplace of democracy in government?

9.      The Punic Wars were between what two major powers?

10.    King Philip II sent his Spanish Armada against England in 1588 for what reasons?

11.    The first country to seek new sea routes to the Indies and the Orient were the _________________

12.    The Treaty of Paris which was signed in 1763, ended the war in North America between France and England, who
    controlled the world's seas at that time?

13.    After the Battle of Salamis of 480 B.C., the great period of peace during which theater, sculpture, writing, and
    philosophy flourished is known as the ____________________

14.    National wealth was measured by the amount of treasure in the royal vaults.  The total wealth of the world was limited. 
   To become richer and more powerful, a nation had to make some other nation poorer through capture of its trade and colonies. 
   This was system was known as the ______________________. 

15.    In the battle of Lepanto in 1571, Christian forces defeated what nation or group of people?

 
16.   The ability of a nation to defend her own sea communications and to deny the enemy the use of the sea to carry
        on a war is called ___________________

17.   What individuals in English history where known as the English "seadogs"?

18.   What nation was the second group to master the sea?
 

19.   What treaty in 1763 ended the war in North America between France and England?

20.   What group of Europeans became the leaders of Western culture after the Greeks?

21.   What Italian state became a great commercial and naval power during the Crusades?

22.   The "Age of Discovery" was referred to as being a new age of _________________.

23.   Who led Maine backwoodsmen in the first American capture of a British ship?

24.   Instead of meeting General Burgoyne in Albany in 1777, General Howe made an ill-advised decision to capture which city?

25.   Although General Arnold defeated the British at Lake Champlain in 1775 it was not a conventional "victory" (he lost all his ships). 
  What was the benefit of this action by General Arnold?