198827526 | plantations | late Roman empires created | 0 | |
198827527 | latifundia | huge estates bought up by newly wealthy roman citizens | 1 | |
198827528 | coloni | tenant farmer | 2 | |
198827529 | Romans | controlled everything and was in regular contact with China | 3 | |
198827530 | barbarians | took over Rome | 4 | |
198827531 | Dark Ages | lack of communication feudalism created lost sight of rest of world | 5 | |
198827532 | 1st crusade | issued by Pope Urban II because he felt Arabs shouldn't control the Holy Land, christians should | 6 | |
198827533 | knights | discovered whole new world of silk, pottery, food, and spices | 7 | |
198827534 | crusades | inspires over sea exploration, and leads to diversification | 8 | |
198827535 | Hanseatic League | a group of Northern German cities and towns that worked together to promote and protect trade | 9 | |
198827536 | Primogeniture & Entail | The practice of passing on land to a son, usually the eldest, when no will was left for the land. This practice became came over with the colonists and was introduced into common law, but it did not take long for the practice to die out in the colonies. | 10 | |
198827537 | choices of non eldest son | P & E: go to the church for a job go to the military | 11 | |
198827538 | Sagres, Portugal | location of the school of navigation that developed CARAVEL AND CARTOGRAPHY | 12 | |
198827539 | Prince Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire. | 13 | |
198827540 | navigation methods | pushed down the coast of Africa and developed captain debriefing | 14 | |
198827541 | Vasco de Gama | brings back Far East products; interests for routes | 15 | |
198827542 | Vikings | made settlements and raids before the Spanish | 16 | |
198827543 | Leif Erickson | led the Vikings further west | 17 | |
198827544 | Helge Instad | found evidence of Viking village at BELLE ISLAND which caused people to think more villages might have existed | 18 | |
198827545 | Spanish | 1st group of settlers to stay in the New World | 19 | |
198827546 | Ferdinand | grants Columbus money for exploration of the New World | 20 | |
198827547 | Columbus | led Ferdinand to believe China was close by the writings of Marco Polo and the known circumference of the world | 21 | |
198827548 | Columbus | makes 4 voyages to the New World, becomes admiral and governor, but never finds anything | 22 | |
198827549 | Spanish colonies | NA, SA, CA except Brazil | 23 | |
198827550 | Treaty of Tordesillas | gave Spain land west of Brazil and gave Portugal land east of Brazil | 24 | |
198827551 | before Jamestown | 160,000 Spanish inhabitants 30 yrs. | 25 | |
198827552 | Potosi | silver and gold sent back from | 26 | |
198827553 | Spanish Armada | created to attack Elizabeth I and King Phillip of England | 27 |
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