Vocabulary
Sun Dried Brick
Adobe
Most prestigious group of people in European society in the 1400s
Aristocrats
supplied most of the gold for the Mediterranean region
Ghana
Emperor of the the kingdom of Mali who made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes tho the Middle East
Mansa Musa
Period of time that ended and the earth began to warm
Ice Age
Spanish conquerors of the Americas
Conquistadors
Most people in the Middle Ages were
Commoners/ working poor
The marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella led to the creation of this country
Spain
Enormous desert in Africa
Sahara
Period in European history from the 5th to the 14th century
Middle Ages
To travel
Migrate
He sought a route to China to convert the Chinese to Christianity
Christopher Columbus
This country led exploration because of the development of a ship called
The Caravel
Most Valuable resource found in the Sahara
Period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages when literature flourished
Renaissance
Most powerful people of the Highlands in central Mexico
Aztecs
He was looking for the Northwest Passage, but instead followed the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, and named the territory at the mouth of the river, Louisiana
Robert La Salle
Largest Spanish settlement in what would later become the United States
St. Augustine
Famous University that was considered a great center of learning in Mali's domain in Africa
Timbuktu
The effort by Christian leader to drive the Muslims out of Spain lasting from the 1100s until 1492
Reconquista
The leading people along the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Coast
Maya
First to circumnavigate the world
Ferdinant Magellan
Largest Cityt in Mexico in the 1500s
Tenochtitlan
In Africa Land belonged to extended.....
Kinship Networks
Columbus sailed west in this year
1492