Middle Ages
What type of government was common in the Middle Ages where lords owned land and vassals worked for them?
Feudalism
What 2 products did West African kingdoms trade that made them wealthy?
gold and salt
What does the term "Renaissance" mean?
Rebirth
Which group in Mexico performed human sacrifices to feed the gods?
Aztecs
Where did Columbus think he had landed on his first expedition?
India- West Indies
Who was responsible for keeping all of the books and written documents
Monks
How did goods travel across the Trans-saharan trade routes
Camel caravans
Who was the famous artist from the Renaissance period who created the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
The primary animal for the tribes of the Great Plains was what?
Buffalo
What is the term for the transfer of goods and enslaved people from Europe to Africa to the Americas?
Triangular Trade - Transatlantic Trade
In what war did both Henry V and Joan of Arc play a role
Hundred Years' War?
Why did Mansa Musa become famous?
He gave out gold on his pilgrimage to Mecca
What is the sun-centered universe called
Heliocentric
How did the Inca adapt farming to their mountainous environment?
Terrace farming
Which disease was most deadly for the indigenous peope after European exploration?
small pox
What was purpose of the Crusades in the Middle Ages?
To gain control of the Holy Lands of Jerusalem
The famous library of West Africa was in what city?
Timbuktu
Who improved on the telescope to prove Copernicus' theory?
Galileo
Which group so indigenous people lived in longhouses?
Northeast tribes
What were the 3 motivations for European exploration?
God, gold, glory
Who was the Holy Roman Emperor who united Europe? I
Charlemagne
This river was the trade route from the Pacific Ocean through the African empires by cities such as Gao and Djenne.
Niger River
What were Martin' Luther's writing about church indulgences called?
95 Theses
What did the Inca use as a record keeping system?
Quipus
Which explorer is credited for knowing that the land was not part of Asia?
Amerigo Vespucci