The practice of breeding plants or taming animals to meet human needs.
What is domestication?
100
A series of wars to capture the Holy Land by European Christians from the Muslims.
What are the Crusades?
100
landless peasants who worked for the lords of the manor but were not allowed to leave.
What are serfs?
200
To move from one place to another.
What is to migrate?
200
A person who plans the course of a ship at sea.
What is a navigator?
200
The disease that spread across Europe in the middle ages and wiped out 1/4 of the population. The bubonic plague.
What is "the black death"?
300
A form of culture characterized by trade centers, specialized workers, organized religion and government.
bigger than cities, towns, villages....
What is a civilization?
300
Italian sailor who thought he knew a faster way to Asia. Hint: he is also credited with discovering America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
guilty of bad or dishonest practices.
What is corrupt?
400
Produce or food grown by a nation in excess of it's needs.
What is surplus?
400
A medieval political system in which the king allowed nobles (Lords)the use of his land in exchange for military protection of people living on the land.
What is Feudalism?
400
religious movement to correct the problems of the Catholic church - Martin Luther started it.
What is the Reformation?
500
A period of history that brought interest in art and learning. Means "rebirth".