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The period from AD 500 to 1500 is known as this.
What is the Middle Ages?
New methods or ideas.
What are innovations?
A series of Middle Eastern trade routes.
What is the Silk Road?
A region of grasslands.
What is a savanna?
French word meaning "rebirth."
What is Renaissance?
An economic system in which a king gives land to nobles in exchange for loyalty and military service.
What is feudalism?
An instrument that helped sailors determine their latitude while at sea.
What is an astrolabe?
People who travel together for safety.
What are caravans?
The most famous ruler of Mali, whose Hajj made him famous throughout the known world.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Inventor of the printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
The land that included the lord's castle and the surrounding farmlands.
What is a manor?
A religion based on the teachings of Muhammad.
What is Islam?
This large desert linked Western and North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
Africans commonly had several generations living in one household, commonly known as this.
What is an extended family?
Portuguese prince who financed many voyages.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
The most powerful entity in western Europe in medieval Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
All Muslims must make a Hajj, or pilgrimage, to this city.
What is Mecca?
This city was a critical trading outpost on the Silk Road.
What is Timbuktu?
Sharing a common ancestor.
What is kinship?
A large ship with triangular sails.
What is a caravel?
A series of wars fought between Catholics and Muslims for control of the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
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Ibn al-Haitham invented this in the 10th century.
What is the pinhole camera?
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In the 1400s, this empire emerged as the most powerful in West Africa.
What is Songhai?
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He was ordered by the Emperor to command the Chinese fleet.
Who is Zheng He?
First European to round the tip of Africa.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?