107388642 | Francesco Petrarch | "The Father of Humanism", Renaissance writer who wrote Letters to Posterity (connect him to future humanists Locke and Hobbes) | 0 | |
107388643 | Aragon | Along with Castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda. | 1 | |
107388644 | Vasco de Gama | (1469-1525) completed all water expedition to India in 1498-brought back Indian goods-blow to Italian monopoly of trade with Asia | 2 | |
107388645 | Romance of the West Chamber | Famous Chinese dramatic work written during the Yuan period. Mongols loved drama | 3 | |
107388646 | Zhenghe | Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded a series of expeditions to the Indian ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea between 1405 and 1433. | 4 | |
107388647 | Vivaldis | two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a western route to the "Indies"; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic | 5 | |
107388648 | Castile | Along with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda. | 6 | |
107388649 | Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. (p. 425) | 7 | |
107388650 | Renaissance | The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history | 8 |
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