Names
What is Islam?
By the 1300s, with the expansion of trade, some Italian city-states became economic and cultural centers filled with people keenly interested in learning more about the world outside of Europe. The rediscovery of classic Greek and Roman writers, led to a cultural rebirth known by this name.
The use of scientific skills for practical purposes.
What is technology?
The state of being set apart or cut off
What is isolation?
Spanish explorer in the Americas during the 1500s.
What is a conquistador?
European Christian soldiers invaded the Middle East in this series of military efforts to gain control of the Holy Land.
What are the Crusades?
In addition to interest in art, architecture, and culture, this period of rebirth made people want to learn more about this subject which all of you are studying.
What is science?
An instrument for determining location on earth by the positions of the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
Related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome
What is classical?"
When two or more groups or objects come together and encounter each other.
What is to contact?
This religion dominated Western Europe.
What is Roman Catholic?
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
Someone who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
Carefully studied and appraised
What is evaluated?
Resistance of an organism to infection or disease
What is immunity?
Name three exotic items brought back from Asia by the Crusaders which motivated Europeans to increase their efforts to trade with Asian nations.
What are spices, silk, and sugar?
This political change happened in Europe as a result of trade and a rebirth of interest in the outside world.
What is small kingdoms became larger and more powerful monarchies which controlled more land and competed with each other to explore and find trade routes to the Far East?
A device to tell you which direction you are going by always pointing north.
What is a magnetic compass?
A point of land that sticks out into water, much like a peninsula
What is a cape?
The best maps not only showed land masses but also this.
What are ocean currents?
Interest in trade with Asia increased even more after this Italian merchant explorer returned to Europe and told fabulous stories about Asia's people, great riches, and splendid cities.
Who was Marco Polo?
Who was Christopher Columbus?
The most famous ship of the Age of Exploration.
What is the three-masted Portuguese caravel?
To travel completely around something
What is to circumnavigate?
This key invention in the mid-1400s made reading material more available.
What is the printing press?