Lessons 1-2
family well known as bankers
de Medici
Russian tsar
Ivan the Great
renamed the southern tip of Africa the Cape of Good Hope
King John of Portugal
America named for him and not Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
put Mali on the map for gold
Mansa Musa
architect of the Dome of Florence
Brunelleschi
princess of the Byzantine Empire
Sophia
first Portuguese captain to round the tip of Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
dreamed of an "Enterprise to the Indies"
Christopher Columbus
its capital was Kumbi Saleh
feeble king of England after the Hundred Years' War
Henry VI
prince of Aragon and king of Spain
Ferdinand
Italian patron of the arts and grandson of Cosimo
Lorenzo de' Medici
means "Holy Savior"
San Salvador
remembered as "Lion of Mali"
Sundiata
called Pater Patriae or "Father of His Country"
Cosimo de'Medici
Dominican monk and inquisitor
Tomas de Torquemada
Portuguese viceroy to India
Vasco da Gama
gentle natives of the Caribbean Islands
Arawak
home to the University of Sankore
Timbuktu
united the houses of York and Lancaster
Henry Tudor
descendants of Genghis Khan
Tatar Mongols
Renaissance artist
Sandro Botticelli
found North America but called it Vinland, a known Christian Viking
Leif Ericsson
founder of the Songhai Empire
Askia Muhammad I