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This explorer started a settlement called Vinland in Canada.
Who is Leif Ericson?
This medieval system involved people working and fighting for nobles.
What is feudalism?
This invention helped books and ideas spread much more quickly throughout Europe.
What is the printing press?
This word means belief in one God.
What is monotheism?
This ancient trade route crossed Central Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
These were peasant farmers who worked the land in the feudal system.
Who are serfs?
This Renaissance artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
This word means going against the teachings of the Church.
What is heresy?
This explorer was the first European to sail from Portugal to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This explorer conquered the Inca Empire in present-day Peru.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This document limited the power of the king and established that the king was subject to the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
This famous artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This word describes the native people of a particular culture or region.
What is indigenous?
This explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa but did not continue all the way to India.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
This explorer is credited with being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
These were religious wars involving European Christians and the Holy Land.
What were the Crusades?
This astronomer was found guilty of heresy and forced to recant his ideas.
Who is Galileo?
This was a group of people and animals traveling together.
What is a caravan?
This explorer explored and mapped the Mississippi River and claimed the region for France.
Who are Joliet and Marquette?
This explorer's expedition is credited with being the first to sail around the entire world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This devastating disease spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages and killed millions.
What was the Black Death?
This man launched a major change in the Catholic Church when he challenged Church teachings with his 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This word means to make full use of and get benefit from a resource or situation.
What is exploit?
This imaginary line divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?