Timeline
Technology
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Miscellaneous
100
About one third of the European population dies from this virus.
What is the Black Plague?
100
The time period where Europeans could devote free time to learning leading to advancements in technology.
What is the Renaissance?
100
Although Columbus was born in Italy, he sailed for this country.
What is Spain?
100
The explorer who sailed for both the British and the Dutch.
Who is Henry Hudson?
100
The competition for trade routes to Asia and new technology leads to this.
What is Age of Exploration?
200
The time period when Europeans were isolated on manors and kingdoms provided serfs protection.
What is the Middle Ages?
200
The leader of Portugal who created the Navigation School and led the Age of Exploration.
Who is Prince Henry?
200
The number of voyages Columbus made to the same place.
What is four.
200
DaGama sailed for this European country when he successfully made it around Africa to India.
Who is Portugal?
200
More than one third to one half of native populations are wiped out in the New World.
What are the diseases brought by Europeans?
300
A series of Holy Wars between Muslims, Jews and Christians fought in Jerusalem.
What are the Crusades?
300
A light-weight ship designed to sail into the wind.
What is a caravel?
300
The place that Columbus landed.
What are the Caribbean Islands.
300
Magellen's crew accomplished this feat when he went around the world.
What is circumnavigate?
300
The sphere of influence of the French is still evident today in these areas.
What are Canada and Louisiana?
400
A trade route made popular by Marco Polo.
What is the Silk Road?
400
A navigational instrument that determines the altitude of the sun or other heavenly bodies.
What is the astrolabe.
400
These are the natives he finds on the islands who he mistreats.
Who are the Tainos.
400
French explorers Cartier and Champlain sailed to this area in the New World.
What is Canada? (Upper New York, Great Lakes, etc)
400
When a group of people invest together to share in profits and losses.
What is a joint-stock company?
500
The demand for foreign goods increased and there were changes to the European economy.
What were the Trade and Commercial revolutions.
500
This made the copying of books cheaper and easier.
What is movable type?
500
The exchange of ideas, plants and animals between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange.
500
Portugal has a claim in the New World because of this explorer.
Who is Cabral?
500
A changing in farming techniques.
What is an agricultural revolution?
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