VOCABULARY
An instrument that helped sailors determine their latitude at sea.
What is an astrolabe?
This is a system that divided their lands among warrior nobles. This system is called
What is feudalism?
Middle Eastern merchants used large ships. What shape were their ship sails?
What is triangular shaped sails on ships.
In the early 600s, a new religion emerged in what country?
What is Arabia?
Within some African regions, how were kinship and religious beliefs related?
What did people who were tied by kinship shared a common ancestor. The spirts of ancestors were honored and thought to bring help or harm?
This was land around a manor. What did it include?
What is a castle, church, farm land and villages?
The peasants were farmers who worked mostly by hand on small plots.
What is true?
What country invented the magnetic compass?
What is China?
Islam expanded many lands and fostered trade. People traded living along what trade routes?
What is Asia and Africa?
Muslims had a basic duty to make a pilgrimage. What was that duty?
What is a journey to the holy city of Mecca at least once in their lifetime?
The trade routes that Middle Eastern travelers traveled that crossed grasslands, mountains and deserts of Central Asia was called?
What is the Silk Road?
What year did life begin to change for peasants.
What is 900?
What other inventions came from China?
What is the rudder, and water tight compartments?
Middle Eastern merchants sold what items?
What is porcelains, perfumes, and fabrics from China?
Islam won many followers among the Arabs and expanded their conquest. Some did not convert. What religions did not convert to Islam? (name two)
What is Christianity and what is Judaism?
This was a way of traveling to where groups traveled together to stay safe.
What is a caravan?
What aspects of society did the Roman Catholic Church control?
What is the land and education?
Which group of people invented a moveable type?
What are the Chinese?
What did the Spice Islands from Indonesia offer for trade?
What is nutmeg, cloves, and mace?
Middle Eastern merchants played a large role in this growing trade. What countries were linked?
Europe, Africa, and Asia.
These were wars fought by Christians to control the region then known as the Holy Land.
What are Crusades?
While Christianity was the main religion in western Europe, what was the other strong religious community?
What is the Jewish community or Judaism?
What German inventor believed he had invented the moveable type, not realizing it had already been invented?
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
What did East Africa trade as well as spices?
What is cloth, indigo and sugar?
Identify one CAUSE and one EFFECT of the Crusades
CAUSE: European Christians did not want the Muslims to control the Holy Land
EFFECT: A growing trade between Europe and the Middle East