Dar-al-Islam
He travelled across Africa as a part of his pilgrimage to Mecca. All the while he showed his wealth and brought wealth to many places along his trip.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This group of scholars studied classical greek and roman cultures hoping to use the wisdom of the ancients to increase their understanding of their own times.
Who are the Humanists?
These people were bound to the land and worked for a feudal lord. In turn they received protection from the feudal lord in times of war.
Who were the serfs?
This man was originally going to be a lawyer but then made a deal with god and became a monk. He later challenged the idea of indulgences and started the fire that led to the protestant reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This Polish Scholar developed the idea of the heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This city was the gem of the Islamic Empire from the 8th to the 13th Century.
What is Baghdad?
The medici family was and remains one of the most prominent and wealthy families in Florence Italy. They were the reason for much of the art that got made by bankrolling various artists using a similar term to a modern website.
This disease was brought to Europe along various trade routes and is associated with rats.
What is the Black Death?
The Catholic Church was complicated and required people to do a log of things to get to heaven. Martin Luther preached something revolutionary, that salvation could be reached through this one thing.
What is Faith Alone?
This Italian man used new technology to assemble a telescope capable of seeing mountains on the moon and observed the moons of Jupiter. H was later tried before the Inquisition and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The scholars of the house of Wisdom pulled knowledge about math and science from these places.
What are Greece and India?
In Northern Europe this man developed a new technology, the printing press and it allowed for the mass production of books.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
This person was in charge of coronating the kinds of Europe as well as setting down religious dictates.
Who is the Pope?
Due to this invention Luther's ideas were able to spread far and wide across Europe.
What is the printing press?
What is the scientific Method?
After the Crusades had a minor impact on an already fractured Islamic Empire however a war against this group of people led to its true decline.
Who are the Mongols?
This man pressed for social and economic reforms, and in a book he wrote about an ideal society where private property does not exist and all are educated and justice is used to end crime. It became known as a Utopia.
Who is Sir thomas More?
Due to the Black Death, the economy in Europe changed. There were less people to work the land and it caused new deals to be made with the working poor and the rich. It also led to advances in technology and the rise of this economic group which forever changed the economy of Europe.
What is the Middle Class?
This event was caused by Luther's ideas and it was the working poor vying for economic and social change in Europe.
What is the peasant's revolt?
During the Scientific Revolution chemistry freed itself from the magical notions of alchemy. This man explained that all matter was composed of tiny particles that behave in knowable ways. He distinguished between individual elements and chemical compounds.
Who is Robert Boyle?
The Crusades were an interesting series of invasions of the holy land that were inspired by an initial destruction of Christian Holy sites. What effect did the crusades have on Europe?
It brought about the renaissance by introducing new ideas including math and sciences, as well as reducing the language barrier.
This man was a towering figure in the Renaissance. He wrote several plays and poems. His tragedies show humans crushed by powerful forces or their own weakness.
Who is William Shakespere?
The Black Death Spread easily along trade routes because of an unprecedented time of peace caused by the conquest of the Mongols.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
This King of England wanted a divorce and used the changing of the tides and the protestant reformation as a way to form the church of England, which was almost exactly like the Catholic Church but it allowed divorce.
Who is King Henry VIII?
Who is Issac Newton?