Renaissance
This term means “rebirth” and describes a period of renewed interest in classical learning.
What is the Renaissance?
This leader founded the Mongol Empire and was known as the “Universal Ruler.”
Who is Genghis Khan?
This explorer sailed in 1492 under Spain, believing he had reached Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This South American empire spread through modern Peru and Argentina and had its capital at Cusco.
What is the Inca Empire?
The predominant religion in Songhai, especially after the rule of Mansa Musa.
What is Islam?
This invention by Johann Gutenberg helped spread Renaissance ideas rapidly across Europe.
What is the printing press?
This grandson of Genghis Khan completed the conquest of China and founded the Yuan Dynasty.
Who is Kublai Khan?
This empire, led by Moctezuma, was conquered by Hernán Cortés.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This conquistador conquered the Inca Empire and executed the Inca, Atahualpa.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This city became a major center of learning and trade in the Songhai Empire.
What is Timbuktu?
This philosophy emphasized the study of Greek and Roman texts and focused on human potential.
What is humanism?
This term describes the period of stability and trade across the Mongol Empire.
What is Pax Mongolica?
This advantage helped Europeans defeat Native Americans due to lack of immunity.
What is disease (like smallpox)?
This translator and advisor helped Cortés communicate with the Aztecs.
Who is Malinche (Doña Marina)?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
This wealthy family ruled Florence and were major patrons of the arts.
Who were the Medici?
This famous European traveler spent years in Mongol China and wrote about its wealth and culture.
Who is Marco Polo?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This December 1531 miracle led to the voluntary conversion of over 10 million Indigenous people to Catholicism in Central America and Mexico.
What is Our Lady of Guadalupe?
This Chinese admiral led massive treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean during the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
This author wrote The Prince and argued it is better for a ruler to be feared than loved.
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
The Mongols implemented this system in China that was first used during the Han Dynasty.
What is the Civil Service System?
This system granted Spanish settlers the right to demand labor from Native Americans.
What is the encomienda system?
This friar argued against the mistreatment of Native Americans and helped inspire reform laws in 1542.
Who is Bartolomé de Las Casas?
This Chinese Dynasty banned foreign exploration and closed most maritime trade in 1435.
What is the Ming?