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| 5964680185 | emporia | a port city surrounded by desert that was very wealthy because of its trade w/ china, india and East Africa. | 0 | |
| 5964684046 | Ibn Battuta | muslim traveler who visited India, the Maldive Islands, Swahili city-states and the Mali empire. He was a ease finding government jobs such as a qadi (advisor to the sultan of delhi). He followed sharia law and tried to persuade women to follow modesty laws. Ibn Battuta guided societies that had recently converted to Islam in the ways of Islam. | 1 | |
| 5964705493 | John of Montecorvino | An active missionary of the roman catholic church in China. He translated the New Testament and Psalms into turkish, and built several churches in china. He took in boys and baptized them, taught them latin and roman catholic rituals. | 2 | |
| 5964710266 | Little Ice Age | about 500 year long period where temperatures dropped to much cooler than normal. The growing season shortened thus causing food supply to disappear. During this cold period the Bubonic Plague began its reign of terror. | 3 | |
| 5964712778 | Renaissance | rebirth of artistic and intellectual creativity that took place in the 14th to 16th century. Artist drew inspiration from greek and roman artists. | 4 | |
| 5964715125 | Da Vinci | italian renaissance painter who studied the form of the human body and represented their emotions. Relied on the technique of linear perspective to show 3-dimensions on flat surface.( 1452- 1519) |  | 5 |
| 5964723542 | Michelangelo | sculptor who sought to depict subject in their natural pose that reflect the actual working muscles. (1475- 1564) |  | 6 |
| 5964725598 | Raphael | renaissance architect and painter |  | 7 |
| 5964730660 | Brunelleschi | a florentine architect reinvented equipment and designs for a large dome. Oversaw the building of the dome on the cathedral of Florence. |  | 8 |
| 5964734353 | Petrarch | a humanist that traveled throughout Europe looking for manuscripts of classical works (1304-1374) Father of the Renaissance. He believed the first two centuries of the Roman Empire to represent the peak in the development of human civilization. | 9 | |
| 5964737534 | Erasmus | Dutch Humanist and friend of Sir Thomas More. Perhaps the most intellectual man in Europe and widely respected. Believed the problems in the Catholic Church could be fixed; did not suport the idea of a Reformation. Wrote Praise of Folly | 10 | |
| 5964742328 | Humanism | Scholars interested in humanities (literature, history, and moral philosophy) had nothing to do with the secular or anti religious interest of present day humanist movements | 11 | |
| 5964744741 | Hongwu | First Ming emperor in 1368; originally of peasant lineage; original name Zhu Yuanzhang; drove out Mongol influence; restored position of scholar-gentry | 12 | |
| 5964759435 | 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. | 13 | |
| 5964762714 | Mandarin | special class of powerful officials sent out as emissaries to make sure local government was effective | 14 | |
| 5964770128 | Eunuch | a man who has been castrated, especially (in the past) one employed to guard the women's living areas at an oriental court. | 15 | |
| 5964775755 | Fernando and Isabel | royal couple of spain that granted approval for columbus's voyage. The Spanish Inquisition was first established in 1478. after marriage, become a very successful political and economic alliance for Spain. Complete reconquista, expand beyond the Iberian peninsula to Italy. Also funded Christopher Columbus' trip to "China" | 16 |
