Cultural Diffusion
Connected Asia to Europe in the 1300's through the travels seeking luxury goods.
What is the Silk Road?
the theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
Heliocentric
devise that uses the stars to help calculate a sailors latitude.
astrolabe
First country to be industrialized
Britain
The sun never set on this empire - it had a colony on all 7 continents.
British Empire
Spread Islam throughout W. Africa, main thing transported was salt.
Trans-Saharan Route
proved Copernicus's heliocentric theory through the use of mathematics.
Johannes Kepler
He was the first explorer to travel around Africa to India, creating a Portuguese Route there.
Vasco da Gama
most important invention of the Industrial Revolution.
Steam Engine
After the Berlin Conference only Liberia and this other country remained independent.
Ethiopia
His own father gave him to Kublai Khan as a servant, his book "Il Million" was an inspiration for many explores.
Marco Polo
Italian that was jailed by the Catholic Church for teaching the heliocentric theory.
Galileo Galilei
In 1492 - he sailed the ocean blue to "discover" the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
people move from rural areas to the cities to find work
urbanization
Conference where they carved up Africa between the European powers.
Berlin Conference
Muslim traveler, explorer and scholar from Tangier. Over a period of 30 years from 1325 to 1354, he visited much of Africa, Asia, and the Iberian Peninsula.
Ibn Battuta
The Church's position on the Scientific Revolution.
Science should not question the word of God.
This conquistador conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
He united Germany by starting a war with France
Otto von Bismark
He was the isolationist leader of the Shogunate that united Japan in the ways of the samurai.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The process by which beliefs, customs, technologies, languages, and practices spread from one society or region to another.
cultural diffusion
During the dark ages of Europe - the Muslim Empires were experiencing their.
Golden Age
This conquistador conquered the Incan people
Francisco Pisaro
The Opium Wars.
This country had a brutal reign in Africa under King Leopold II where they would cut the hands off of children for poor rubber yields.
The Belgian Congo