What improvements made in maritime technology between the sixteenth and eighteenth century helped extend and increase the opportunities for new imperialist empires?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Improvements in maritime technology
1. European or European-designed ships began to rival, and even excel,
those of traditional Asian construction
a. borrowed from Asian technology
1. rudders
2. bulkheads between the ship's interior compartments
3. more streamlined designs for long-range commercial vessels
4. technical aids that enabled navigators to determine
2. improvements in artillery and fortifications made it ever easier to defend
coastal forts and trading posts
a. naval powers that mustered enough shipping and shipboard
firepower could use convoys to control sea lanes or even
exclude rival ships by aggressive policing
3. acceptance of sea charts
4. longitude-finding techniques improved
a. King Philip II of Spain decreed a prize for anyone who could
solve the problem of determining longitude at sea
b. other states initiated similar schemes
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