Ghana/Mali/Songhai
What was the name of the Mali king who traveled from West Africa to Egypt and Mecca in order to complete his hajj and demonstrate the wealth of the Kingdom of Mali
Mansa Musa
What was the name of the period of European history in which many European scholars rediscovered the intellectual works of classical Greece and Rome?
The Renaissance
What is the name of the person who led the Spanish forces that eventually conquered the Aztec Empire?
Hernan Cortes
What nation is credited with creating the first Bill of Rights
The English
What was the main crop slave labor was used to grow in the Americas?
Sugar
This was the principle good that African kingdoms traded to Arab North Africans in exchange for salt.
Gold
Fill in the blanks: Between 1350 and 1500 European civilization changed from ______ feudal kingdoms with a focus on communal survival to large sovereign states full of individually ____ people?
fragmented ... ambitious
Name one of the two major tribes that allied with the Spanish in their war of conquest against the Aztecs
The Cempoala or the Tlaxcala
Who is credited with the famous absolutist saying, "I am the state"?
Louis XIV
What was the name of the cursed individual in the Bible's Book of Genesis whose story became one of the central justifications for an anti-black system of slavery?
Ham
What is the name of the geographic region, between the Sahara and the tropics, where the Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai developed?
The Sahel
What was the name of the land given to a vassal by a lord in exchange for that vassal's promise of military service should the lord require it?
A fief
Identify one important geographical feature of the area in Mexico where the Mexica lived and explain its significance to Mexica history.
Limited land
Salt water lake
Surrounded by mountains
Who were the two main groups of French people fighting against the monarchy during the Fronde
The nobility and the peasantry
What was the name of the Roman slave who staged one of the world's first well-recorded slave insurrections?
Spartacus
This is the name of the storykeepers in West African societies
Griots
Where a Protestant believes that "faith alone" will get one into heaven, a Catholic believes one must do what?
Good works (confession, alms, good deeds, etc.)
How did the Spanish ultimately defeat the Aztecs at Tenotitchalan?
Boats + Seige + Destruction of bridges and aquaduct
This King lost his head during the English Civil War
Charles I
King Afonso I of Kong wrote about his frustrations with the slave trade in his kingdom. Whom did he write to and what was that person's nationality?
King Joao III of Portugal
Identify who Sunni Ali was and the main reason why he was controversial.
Sunni Ali = Founder of the Songhai Empire
Controversy = sacked Timbuktu / did not allow for religious toleration
Why were justices of the peace ineffective royal officers?
They were respected amongst those whom they administered (unlike the corregidors of Spain), but they were not terribly loyal to the crown.
In the Mexica origin story, the Mexica are guided by the sign of an eagle standing on a cactus. What is the eagle eating and what is the cactus planted within?
Snake / Chinampa
What was the name of the tutor to Louis XIV's son who is credited with the most succinct definition of the political ideology of divine right.
Bousset
Identify one Carribean colony that was controled by the British, one that was controlled by the French, and one that was controlled by the Spanish during the height of the slave trade.
Multiple options - these are the big ones:
British: Barbados, Jamacia
French: Haiti
Spanish: Cuba, Domincan Republic