Vocab
Who was the Chinese Muslim admiral that led sea voyages from 1405 to 1433?
Who is Zheng He
Explorer that was known for his travels to the Americas, and making his name in the exploring world.
Who is Christopher Columbus
After China ended its voyages in 1433, this continent started trading more overseas and later went to the Americas.
What is Europe?
The Ming emperors stopped the treasure voyages because they cost too much and instead focused on this.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This disease hit Europe in the 1300s, killing about one-third of the people and hurting the economy.
What is the Black Death (bubonic plague)
This Portuguese prince helped fund many voyages along Africa’s coast before 1460.
Who is Henry the Navigator
The apprentice who painted a fly so realistic that his teacher tried to swat it off the canvas
Who is Gioto?
Name one important new technology Europe learned from Asia.
Compass, printing, or gunpowder
The system of kings and lords that organized medieval Europe
What is feudalism
This crisis happened in Europe when the population grew faster than the food supply, causing widespread hunger.
What is a Famine
Which Portuguese explorer reached India in 1498, opening a sea route from Europe to Asia?
Who is Vasco da Gama
This Islamic thinker wrote The Destruction of the Philosophers
Who is Al-Ghazali
What dynasty ruled China when it overseas expeditions took place?
What is the Ming Dynasty
The series of wars between Britain and France that encouraged new ideas for military organization.
What is the Hundred Years’ War?
This African empire fell to regional rivals,but was later replaced by another flourishing Muslim kingdom between 1464–1591.
What is Mali?
This movement in Italy around 1400 focused on non-religious subjects in art and writing.
What is the Renaissance?
This young emperor of China wanted to show his own power and ended the treasure voyages.
Who was Yunglo
Western Europeans learned to use these two tools from Arabs and Chinese to help them sail farther.
What are the compass and astrolabe?
European region where the Renaissance began.
What is Italy?
This American empire exploited its people for gold, slaves, and religious sacrifices, causing resentment.
What was the Aztec Empire?
This Italian author and humanist was a key figure in the Renaissance.
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
These two kingdoms in Spain fought to take back land from the Muslims and later joined together.
Castile and Aragon
European elites had a trade deficit with Asia because the value of their exports was less than these imported goods.
What are luxury goods (spices, silks, sugar, perfumes, jewels)
Because of this empire expanding, Europeans started to worry about another Muslim surge.
What is the Ottoman Empire
Reason Europeans wanted new trade routes to Asia.
What is to bypass Muslim-controlled trade