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| 299589720 | Marco Polo's stories | influenced people to travel to Asia , Mongol empire = nice/good | 0 | |
| 299589721 | Marco Polo in China | 1270s-1290s, Marco Polo travelled to China with his father and uncle over the Silk Road which was an overland route to China. He worked for Kublai Khan, the Mongol Emperor, for seventeen years. He sailed home instead of going overland. He brought back ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and silk. He told about the Chinese use of coal, money and compasses. He met Rustichello, a famous writer, who wrote about Marco Polo's travels in a book called THE BOOK OF TRAVELS. Marco Polo became famous for his travels through Central Asia and China. His book gave Europeans some of their earliest information about China. | 1 | |
| 299589722 | Cotton in West Africa | erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers, which has been lost over years. | 2 | |
| 299589723 | Origins of the bubonic plague | Began in China and by 1347 spread across the Mongol Empire to West Asia, finally killing people in North Africa and in France, England, Germany and Italy. This plague caused the end of the Mongol Empire and killed about one out of every three people in Europe, it also spread by the silk road and ships. | 3 | |
| 299589724 | Results of the bubonic plague | Killed many people, destroyed families and friends, and broke up religions. | 4 | |
| 299589725 | Powerful states in Europe | 1. France 2. Spain 3. Italy 4. England | 5 | |
| 299589726 | Reconquista in Spain | Several Christian kingdoms succeeded in retaking the Muslim-controlled areas of the Iberian Peninsula broadly known as Al-Andalus. | 6 | |
| 299589727 | Renaissance begins where | Being in Italy in the late Middle Ages | 7 | |
| 299589728 | Renaissance painting's key features | Human based. Individualism - Emphasized the uniqueness of each face and figure with emotions. Balance the Proportion- More realistic, tried to make art imitate life. Perspective- the impression of death. New material. | 8 | |
| 299589729 | 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. (pp. 355, 422) | 9 | |
| 299589730 | Prince Henry of Portugal | established a school that taught sailing, geography, mapmaking, and astronomy | 10 | |
| 299589731 | Reasons for European exploration | ~searching for sea route to far east ~desire for glory and wealth (rulers want to justify rule) ~quest for new lands ~spread religion ~adventure | 11 | |
| 299589732 | Astrolabe | an instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets | 12 | |
| 299589733 | Wind Wheels | Prevailing wind patterns in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans north and south of the equator; their discovery made sailing much safer and quicker. | 13 | |
| 299589734 | Mercantilism | an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods that they bought | 14 | |
| 299589735 | 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. (p. 428) | 15 | |
| 299589736 | Portuguese in Asia | They wanted to completely monopolize the Asian trading system. | 16 | |
| 299589737 | Manila | the capital and largest city of the Philippines | 17 | |
| 299589738 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. | 18 | |
| 299589739 | Russia in Siberia | Russian explorers who, though numerically outnumbered, pressured the various family-based tribes into changing their loyalties and establishing distant forts from which they conducted raids. | 19 | |
| 299589740 | Seven Year's War | Known in America as French and Indian war. It was the war between the French and their Indian allies and the English that proved the English to be the more dominant force of what was to be the United States both commercially and in terms of controlled regions. | 20 | |
| 299589741 | Migrants to the New World | * Christopher Columbus * And other's who want new land and was in search of becoming rich and finding new things | 21 | |
| 299589742 | Lateen sails | Large triangular sails that are attached to the masts by long booms or yard arms which extend diagonally high across both the fore and aft portions of the ship. | 22 | |
| 299589743 | Treaty of Tordesillas | a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal. | 23 | |
| 299589744 | Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches | 24 | |
| 299589745 | Martin Luther & the 95 Theses | A monk who posted 95 reasons to reform the church; inspired many people to seize power from his ideas | 25 | |
| 299589746 | John Calvin & The Institutes of the Christian Religion | Believed that god had selected him to reform the church. Assisted in the reformation of Geneva, established Christian society. His beliefs were in the all powerful aspects of God and the total weaknesses of humanity. Said men and women were incredibly insignificant. Men and women cannot work to salvation, god decides at beginning of time who is saved and who is to be damned. | 26 | |
| 299589747 | The Reformation | beginning in 1517, when Martin Luther challenged some of the basic practices and beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, gave the English people religious motives for colonization in the Americas. | 27 | |
| 299589748 | Henry VIII | (1491-1547) King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, England's break with the Roman Catholic Church, and its embrace of Protestantism. Henry established the Church of England in 1532. | 28 |
