Key Terms
An ecological revolution of new plants, animals, and microorganisms moving between Europe, Asia, Africa, and America
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This theory says that people used boats to cross between Asia and America. Migrating down the West Coast and settling the continent.
What is the Coastal Routes Theory?
The two resources that made West Africa Rich
What are Gold and Salt?
The two factors that led to the Renaissance in Europe.
What are Trade and the Spread of Information (Printing Press)?
The Three G's
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
A time of renewed interest in learning and advancement of the arts. (1400s)
What is the Renaissance?
This theory says that an Ice Age caused lower sea levels, allowing people to walk across the Bering Strait and settle in the Americas.
What is the Land Bridge Theory?
The three Kingdoms of West Africa in order
What are Ghana, Mali, Songhai?
An Italian navigator who sailed West out of Spain in search of a route to China and India. He ended up in the Americas
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The theorized sea-route through the Americas
What is The Northwest Passage?
A crusade/fight to drive Muslim influence out of the Iberian Peninsula
What is the Reconquista?
The guiding law of the Iroquois Confederacy
What is a Constitution?
The most important King of Mali. He created a place of study for Islam in Timbuktu.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Founded a school for navigation in Portugal.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Children of Spanish and Native Americans are known as this.
What are Mestizos?
Portuguese Navigator who sailed around the tip of Africa and established the first trade route with India.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
After Settling in the Americas, These four Native American culture groups formed.
What are the Southwest, The Mississippian, The Eastern Woodlands People, and The Early Peoples of the Great Plains
The two types of slaves in West Africa
What are Captive and Domestic?
This conquistador defeated the Aztecs and established New Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The most successful Native American revolt against Spanish colonization
What is the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
A Sun-Dried Brick used by the Southwest Peoples
What is Adobe?
The two major groups that make up the Eastern Woodlands Peoples.
What are the Algonquins and Iroquoians
This European nation traded with the Kingdoms of West Africa
Who are the Portuguese?
The colony set up by Christopher Columbus in the New World
What is Hispaniola?
The first French Colony established in Canada (To this day many citizens speak French here)
What is Quebec?