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| 259913581 | Latin West | Historians' name for the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange in the period ca. 1000-1500; its acheivements had profound implications for the future of the world | 0 | |
| 259913582 | 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 | |
| 259913583 | Black Death | An outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, killing off a third of western Europeans; resolved problem of overpopulation | 2 | |
| 259913584 | 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 | |
| 259913585 | Hanseatic League | An economic and defensive alliance of the free towns in northern Germany, founded about 1241 and most powerful in the fourteenth century; traded extensively in the Baltic, including coasts of Prussia. | 4 | |
| 259913586 | Guild | In medieval Europe, an association of men (rarely women), such as merchants, artisans, or professors, who worked in a particular trade and banded together to promote their economic and political interests; association of craft specialists | 5 | |
| 259913587 | 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 | |
| 259913588 | Renaissance | A period of intense artistic and intellectual activity, said to be a 'rebirth' of Greco-Roman culture. Usually divided into an Italian Renaissance, from roughly the mid-fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century, and a Northern Renaissance 1400-1600 | 7 | |
| 259913589 | 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 | |
| 259913590 | Scholasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century; synthesize reason and faith | 9 | |
| 259913591 | Humanists (Renaissance) | European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy), influential in the fifteenth century and later. | 10 | |
| 259913592 | 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 | |
| 259913593 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon. | 12 | |
| 259913594 | Hundred Years War (1337-1453) | Series of campaigns over control of the throne of France, involving English and French royal families and French noble families; was a key example of the transformation in politics and warfare | 13 | |
| 259913595 | 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 and there was stronger representative institutions | 14 | |
| 259913596 | Reconquest of Iberia | Beginning in the eleventh century, military campaigns by various Iberian Christian states to recapture territory taken by Muslims. In 1492 the last Muslim ruler was defeated, and Spain and Portugal emerged as united kingdoms; also a religious crusade to Iberia | 15 | |
| 259913597 | 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 | |
| 259913598 | Arawak | Amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. | 17 | |
| 259913599 | Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa; promoted exploration of the South Atlantic | 18 | |
| 259913600 | Caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic; much smaller than European ships and junks | 19 | |
| 259930324 | Gold Coast (Africa) | Region of the Atlantic coast of West African occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold eports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 20 | |
| 259930325 | 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 | |
| 259930326 | 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 | |
| 259930327 | 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; 4 voyages | 23 | |
| 259930328 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. | 24 | |
| 259930329 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.) | 25 | |
| 259930330 | Herman Cortes | Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in the 1500s for Spain; ambitious and ruthless | 26 | |
| 259930331 | Montezuma II | Last Aztec emperor, overthrown by the Spanish conquistador Herman Cortes. | 27 | |
| 259930332 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533; had come to America in 1502 at age 25 to seek his fortune | 28 | |
| 259930333 | Atahualpa | Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish; ordered execution of his brother while captured | 29 |
