explorers
An Italian explorer and navigator who completed four Spanish voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Where are the Ural Mountains located?
What is Europe
A series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these ... are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule.
What are the Crusades?
Known for his wealth and gift-giving, and has sometimes been called one of the wealthiest people in history.
Who is Mansa Musa
A Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. He worked with Kublai khan and wrote a book.
Who is Marco Polo?
The Longest river in North America
What is the Mississippi River
A series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English royal House of Plantagenet and the French royal House of Valois.
What is the 100 Years War?
He improved feudalism and was king of the franks.
Who is Charlemagne
What did Bartolomeu Dias do?
Named the tip of Africa the Cape of Storms because of the weather conditions on his voyage.
Name 5 geographical features of the Europe we learned in 7th grade Social Studies
What are North European Plains, North Atlantic Drift, the Alps, Ural Mountains, England, France, the Mediterranean Sea, Italian Peninsula, and Iberian Peninsula?
... was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England.
What is the Battle of Hastings?
An Artist from the renaissance era, made the Sistine chapel, and is a highly respected artist.
Who is Michelangelo
who was amerigo vespucci
what is he was an Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.
What are 5 geographical features of China? (not including the countries themselves)
What are the Himalayas, Plateau of Tibet, Gobi Desert, Yellow River, Yangtze River, Sea of Japan, Pacific Ocean
The Ottoman empire took over Constantinople.
What is the siege of Constantinople/the fall of Constantinople
She murdered many for following a different religion than what she wanted, and her husband was publicly shamed.
Who is Bloody Mary
He was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefore, the West and the Orient.
what is Vasco da gama
What are the benefits of living near the Mediterranean Sea?
What is easier trade and fertile land?
A centuries-long series of battles by Christian states to expel the Muslims (Moors), who from the 8th century ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula.
What is the Reconquista
She was a general in France during the Hundred Years' War. Still respected today in France and as a saint.
Who is Joan of Arc