Unit 1
The church that was the center of life in medieval western Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This big desert spreads across ~3.5 million square miles in North Africa and the northern part of West Africa.
What is the Sahara?
This civilization inherited ideas from the Olmecs and reached it's highest development in the place now called Guatemala.
What is the Maya?
This was a period in Europe from about 1300 to 1600 C.E. and it means rebirth.
What is the Renaissance?
This was the man who discovered the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This big disease killed millions in Europe in the 1300s.
What is the Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
What is the Niger River?
This was the Aztec's capital city.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This philosophy believed in the worth of all individuals.
What is humanism?
This was a period of discovery that lasted from about 1418 to 1620.
What is the Age of Exploration?
The economic and political system that Europeans developed around 1000 C.E.
What is feudalism?
This West African kingdom gained most of it's wealth on trade. It's name means war chief.
What is Ghana?
This lake was the one where the Aztecs started building their civilization.
What is Lake Texcoco?
This city was known as the "cradle of the Renaissance".
This method was developed during the Scientific Revolution and involved five basic steps.
What is the Scientific Method?
This empire fell due to many contributing factors although it was known as the greatest empire the world had even seen.
What is the Roman Empire?
This religion greatly influenced West Africa.
What is Islam?
These mountains were where the Inca Empire developed.
What are the Andes Mountains?
This painter was considered the "ideal Renaissance person", and also was a scientist, engineer, musician, and architect.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This place was where the Age of Exploration began.
What is Portugal?
This empire lasted from 500 to 1453 C.E. and controlled land in three continents.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
These people are verbal artists of the Mande people who tell stories of the past.
What is a Griot?
This is the Mesoamerican rain god that the Aztecs adopted.
Who is Tlaloc?
This movement led to the start of many new Christian churches that broke away from the Catholic Church.
What is the Reformation?
This man published the book The Spirit of Laws and believed that power must be divided in three branches.
Who is Montesquieu?