Concluding Old World and America

Crusades

100

God wills it

1095

200

Richard insulted him

Duke Leopold of Austria

300

led the Knights' Crusade

Godfrey of Bouillon

400

gathered children to go on Crusade

Stephen and Nicholas

500

French king who led one of the last crusades

St. Louis IX of France

Silks and Spices and Travelers

100

sweetener from the East

Sugar

200

traveled to China with his father and uncle

Marco Polo

300

Archbishop of China, appointed by the pope

John of Corvino

400

Turks take Constantinople

1453

500

Spanish city who traded with the East

Barcelona

Fight, Fight for the butter side up...

100

claimed French throne

Edward III

200

the Maid of Orleans

Joan of Arc

300

French city owned by the English for many years

Calais

400

the power of the longbow

Battle of Crecy

500

Agincourt

1415

Old but Good

100

The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci

200

busy guy from Florence

Michelangelo

300

rebirth

Renaissance

400

Italian poet

Dante

500

man from Rotterdam

Erasmus

New-fangled Junk

100

Chinese predecessor to the GPS

compass

200

Boom!

gunpowder

300

Columbus discovered America

1492

400

the printing press

John Gutenberg

500

Hundred Years War begins

1336 or 1338