Fall of Rome & Medieval Europe
One of the main reasons for the fall of feudalism, this caused the death of over 24 million people, a third of Europe's population.
What is the bubonic plague?
The three kingdoms that arose in West Africa.
What are Mali, Ghana, and Songhai?
A powerful, influential, and ruling family in florence during the renaissance
Who are the Medicis?
A game played by the Mayans in which you had to hit a rubber ball through a stone ring. The losing teams would often be sacrificed.
What is Pok-a-Tok?
Where the Age of Exploration began. Its a small country that first sent its explorers to Africa
What is Portugal?
The man who unified nearly all the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire. He was a Frank.
Who is Charlemange?
The trade used in Africa, It was used so North Africa and West Africa could trade.
What is trans-Saharan trade?
The problems with the Catholic Church which Martin Luther put on the church door.
What are the 76 Theses
The man who destroyed the Aztecs, he was a conquistador from Spain.
Who was Herman Cortes?
An economic policy by which nations try to gather wealth by establishing colonies and controlling trade.
What is mercantilism?
A trade city in the meditearanean, Constantine made it the capital of the Roan Empire
What is constantinople?
The two main reasons the towns turned into cities in West Africa?
What are ironworking and trade?
Founder of Calvinism, he was French humanist who did his most influential work in Geneva, Switzerland
Who was John Calvin?
In order to relay information across the vast empire, the Incas used these to communicate. They would run with quipu.
What are Chasqui?
As more people began to work for hire, this was important as it allowed the entire family to work at home. It was especially important for textiles
What is cottage industry?
The place at the top of a merchants house where the family would eat.
What is a solar?
The names of the two rivers that intersect at Jenne-Jeno.
What are the Niger and Bani rivers?
Considered one of the first humanists, he was a Italian poet who was interested in old books collecting a large amount over his life.
Who was Francesco Petrarch?
The maya's didn't let the bride and groom choose each other. Instead, one of these did it.
What are atanzahab or matchmakers?
Galileo questioned this mans theory about objects of different weight and when they landed. Galileo used the Scientific method to prove him wrong
Who was Aristotle?
The king of England from 1154 to 1189. He created much legal reform in England.
Who is King Henry II?
The name of Muslim warriors that attacked Ghana is the 11th century.
What are Almoravids?
Known for his comic Don Quixote. H was a Spanish writer from 1547 to 1616.
Who was Miguel Cervantes?
Aztec commoners would eat this for breakfast. It was the equivalant of porridge with maize.
What is atole?
People for two thousand years believed in this theory. It says that Earth is the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?