Vocabulary
African Kingdoms
Early Exploration
Christopher Columbus
Early Explorers
100
Use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
What is Technology
100
Mansa Musa
What is Mali's king
100
He created the school of navigation
Who is Henry the Navigator
100
1492 (Rhyme)
Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue
100
Created updates on maps. Fascinated by sea
Who is Henry the Navigator
200
Holy book of Islam
What is the Quran
200
Capital of Mali that had something built in it
What is Timbuktu and had a mosque built in it
200
Time when Christians fought to regain holy sites back from the Muslims
What are The Crusades
200
Born in this city and country
What is Genoa, Italy
200
Named the Americas after
Who is Amerigo Vespucci
300
to sail around
What is to circumnavigate
300
Attacked Ghana and disrupted their trade routes
What is the Almoravids
300
Imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic from the North Pole to the South Pole
What is the Line of Demarcation
300
Backed by these monarchs (give reasons why they backed him-2)
Who is King Ferdinand and Isabella. They backed him because he promised to spread Christianity as well as if he found a way to Asia, then Spain would become wealthy through the trade that would open up.
300
Circumnavigated the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
400
narrow sea passage
What is a strait
400
Attacked and defeated the Songhai Empire
What is Morocco
400
Map of how Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco de Gama sailing around Africa
Draw it on the board!! Vasco de Gama did a semi-circular route to India. Dias hugged coast all the way to end point
400
Reason why Erickson Day is actually more accurate to have than Columbus Day
What is Leif Erickson reached and settled in Americas first
400
Explored the southernmost tip of Africa and founded the Cape of Good Hope
Who is Bartholomeu Dias
500
Instrument that measures the positions of stars
What is astrolabe
500
Had 5 different provinces with what workers__________
What is Songhai Empire-had a governor, tax collector, court of judges, and a trade inspector
500
Causes and effects of European Explorations
What is European desire for new trade routes, growing power and wealth, competition in trade, Missionaries' desire to convert people to Christianity. Effects: Knowledge grows about other regions. Europeans and Native Americans clash. Enslavement of Africans. Rivalry in the Americas grows.
500
1492, 1493, 1498, and 1502
What is the years Columbus traveled to the Americas on separate voyages
500
Traveled to China and wrote a book called Travels.
Who is Marco Polo
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