Crusades
church that dominated Europe in the Middle Ages
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Name the three pre-Columbian civilizations that developed in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.
What are the Incas, Mayas, and Aztecs?
Give two reasons for exploration
What is God, Gold, Glory(fame), spices (trade), water route to the Indies, curiosity due to crusades and Marco Polo and other travel writers
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand gave him money to find a new route to India heading west.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
leader that united the Mongols
Who is Genghis Khan?
the Crusades was a successful failure for this region
What is Europe?
This group invented a calendar, a form of writing, as well as the use of zero in math
Who are the Mayas?
Name two new technologies that made exploration possible
What are the compass, astrolabe, better maps, caravels, gunpowder,
He set out to find a western route to Asia in 1519. His crew sailed all the way around the world and made it back to Spain in 1522.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
Reasons for military advantage of Mongols
What is bow and horse?
Which religion controlled the "holy land" by 800 ?
What is Islam?
Tenochtitlan was their capital
Who are the Aztecs?
Three reasons (G's) for European dominance of the Americas in the 1400's
What is Gold, God and Glory?
This was started in the 1500s to fill the need for labor in Spain’s American empire.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
Mongol ruler of China
Who is Kublai Khan?
The Crusades are considered a turning point in European history because it opened them to
What is trading?
These were “floating gardens” that the Aztecs built in lakes in order to farm since there was a shortage of fertile land.
What are chinampas?
Who is Columbus?
This refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Regions ruled by Mongols
What is Asia and parts of Europe?
The Crusades were a series of
What is wars?
In order to improve trade and transportation, they developed a vast (large network of roads (like the Romans) and footbridges in the Andes Mountains.
Who are the Incas?
This Portuguese explorer discovered an all water route to India.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
The economic theory that equates money with power the richer a country is, the more powerful a country is
What is mercantilism?
Negative effect of Mongol rule
What is spread of Bubonic Plague?