Began with the collapse of the Roman Empire, absence of effective government, and constant threat of disease
What is the Middle Ages?
100
Three of the wealthiest and most powerful kingdoms in West Africa
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai ?
100
Financially supported Christopher Columbus' voyages West
Who are King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain
100
Used by Europeans in battle against the Natives, both they had never seen before
guns and horses
200
Came from Siberia to Alaska across
What is the Bering Land Bridge/Strait
200
Killed about 1/3 of the Europeans
What is the Black Death or Bubonic Plague?
200
All three kingdoms lived along this body of water
What is the Niger River?
200
Discovered and colonized Iceland and Greenland
Who are the Vikings?
200
Leading peoples in Mesoamerica
Who are the Olmec and Maya?
300
A type of sun-dried brick
What is adobe?
300
Extremes of wealth and poverty, ruling elite of less than 5% of the population controlled almost all of the land
What is unequal social classes?
300
Ruler of his kingdom for 25 years, was a Muslim, and spread Islam throughout West Africa after his pilgrimage to Mecca
Who is Mansa Musa?
300
European country was the pioneer in sailing far from home in search of wealth and foreign lands
What is Portugal?
300
Accounted for the large number of deaths in Native American populations
What is disease?
400
Most likely they migrating south following
What is the mammoth and/or large mammals, or prey?
400
European Christians and Southwest Asian Muslims fought on another in a series of religious wars
What are the Crusades?
400
Askia Muhammad's name
What is Muhammad Ture?
400
Sought a route to China to revive the Christian struggle against Islam
Who is Christopher Columbus?
400
Slaves were adopted into families here
What is Africa?
500
Entailed domesticating wild plants to plant, farm, and harvest, domesticating animals, enabled settling, and population increase
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
500
Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Portugal were waging the ____________ to drive out the Muslim Moors who had ruled Iberia for centuries.
What is the reconquista?
500
_______________ sold slaves annually to _____________ traders, who carried them in caravans across the Sahara to the Mediterranean.
Who are West African rulers and Arab ?
500
A conquistador brilliant and ruthless, killed the Aztec ruler Moctezuma, appointed by Spanish king to govern Mexico
Who is Hernan Cortes?
500
The Spanish and Portuguese negogiated this and agreed to split the world of new discoveries by drawing a north-south boundary line through the mid-atlantic