Classification of Time
Time period from the beginning of human life on Earth. No written records.
What is Pre-History?
A famous trade route across Central Asia during ancient times.
What is the Silk Road?
Explorer who started a settlement called Vinland in Canada.
Who is Leif Ericson?
First European to "discover" the Pacific Ocean while exploring Darien near the isthmus of Panama.
Who is Balboa?
Who is Muhammed?
An instrument used to help captains navigate the seas.
What is an astrolabe? Or What is a compass?
The era (time period) between 476 AD and the 1450s AD
What is the Middle Ages?
Artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
Who is Michelangelo?
Credited with being the first man to sail around the world.
Who is Magellan?
1st person to suggest and write that South America was a new continent.
Father and son explorers who mapped the east coast and explored North and South Carolina.
Spanish conquerors.
Who are the Conquistadors?
Main time period when Hammurabi's Code of 1754 BC was written.
What is Ancient History?
Italian who traveled eastward on the Silk Road through China and was the first European to write about his adventures.
Who is Marco Polo?
Explored the Southwest and discovered the Grand Canyon.
Who is Coronado?
Conquered the Inca Empire in Peru.
Who is Pizarro?
First document to grant the common people some basic human rights by a royalty figure. It provided inspiration for the United States Constitution.
What is the Magna Carta?
Belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
A time of rebirth when the arts, literature, and science experienced amazing changes.
Wht is the Renaissance?
Founder of the world's largest religion.
Who is Jesus Christ?
Line that split the 'New World" in half; Spain claimed new land to the west of the line and Portugal claimed land to the east of the line.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
Explored the St. Lawrence River and claimed Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
Wars in which the Christians attempted to reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims (Islam).
What are the Crusades?
The time period that starts around 1453 and continues to present day.
What is Modern History?
Founder of Judaism
Who is Abraham?
Explored New York City area. A river and a bay are named for him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Credited with "discovering" the New World because he wrote about it.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Launched a huge change in the Catholic religion and started the Protestant Reformation when he nailed his 95 Theses on a church's door.
Who is Martin Luther?
To go against the teachings of the Catholic Church.
What is heresy?