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| 259795388 | Latin West | Territories of Europe that adhended to the Latin rite of Christianity and language. | 0 | |
| 259795389 | Three Field System | A rotational system for agriculture in which one field grows grain, one grows legumes, and one lies fallow. It gradually replaced two-field system in medieval Europe. | 1 | |
| 259795390 | Black Death | The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 2 | |
| 259795391 | Water Wheel | A mechanism that harnesses the energy in flowing water to grind grain or to power machinery. It was used in many parts of the world but was especially common in Europe from 1200 to 1900. | 3 | |
| 259795392 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century. | 4 | |
| 259795393 | Guild | In medieval Europe, an association of men, such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests. | 5 | |
| 259795394 | Gothic Cathedrals | Large churches originating in twelfth-century France; built in an architectural style featuring pointed arches, tall vaults and spires, flying buttresses, and large stained-glass windows. | 6 | |
| 259795395 | Renaissance | The period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world | 7 | |
| 259795396 | Universities | Degree-granting institutions of higher learning. Those that appeared in Latin West from about 1200 onward became the model of all modern universities. | 8 | |
| 259795397 | Scholaticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas. | 9 | |
| 259795398 | Humanists | European scholoars or teacher associated with the sudy of humanities. | 10 | |
| 259795399 | Printing Press | A mechanical device for transferring text or graphics from a woodblock or type to paper using ink. Presses using movable type first appeared in Europe in about 1450. | 11 | |
| 259795400 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin Christian Church. | 12 | |
| 259795401 | Hundred Year War | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France. | 13 | |
| 259795402 | New Monarchies | Historians' term for the monarchies in France, England, and Spain from 1450 to 1600. The centralization of royal power was increasing within more or less fixed territorial limits. | 14 | |
| 259795403 | Reconquest of Liberia | Beginning in the eleventh century, millitary campaigns by various Iberian Christian States to recapture territory. | 15 | |
| 259795404 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 16 | |
| 259795405 | Arawak | A meridian peoples w, a family of South American Indian languages spoken in northeastern South America, Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. | 17 | |
| 259795406 | Henry The Navigator | Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. | 18 | |
| 259795407 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 19 | |
| 259795408 | Gold Coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 20 | |
| 259795409 | Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. | 21 | |
| 259795410 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. | 22 | |
| 259795411 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic, reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization. | 23 | |
| 259795412 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 24 | |
| 259795413 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. | 25 | |
| 259795414 | Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico. | 26 | |
| 259795415 | Moctezuma II | Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador. | 27 | |
| 259795416 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima. | 28 | |
| 259795417 | Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. | 29 |
