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Europeans
Middle Ages
100

An area ruled by a lord, including the lord’s castle and the land around it

What is Manor

100

 ____________________ was a Spanish navigator who had 4 Voyages and had been credited as the “discoverer” of the New World.

What is Christopher Columbus

100

Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella financed Christopher Colubus’ voyage?

Because they were interested in Columbus finding gold and wanted to expand on trade in Asia
100
What emerged in Arabia and spread quickly?

What is Islam

200

A system of rule by lords who ruled their own land but owned loyalty and military service to a monarch



What is feudalism

200

____________________ also sailed to North America using canoes thousands of miles in this way.

What is Polynesians 

200

List 3 things that the Europeans traded with the Tanos Indians.

Diseases such as Smallpox, Tobacco, and Chickens 

200
Who owned large amounts of land and offered the only source of education?

What is the Catholic Church

300

Between 1100 and 1300, the series of wars fought by Christians to control Palestine, or the Holy Land

What is Cruscades

300

The Middle Easterns had developed new technology that they traded with Muslims such as the __________________ and crankshaft

What is Pin Hole Camera
300
What happened to the Tanos Indians after Columbus died? 

They were wiped out from diseases brought by the Europeans. They were also forced into slave labor camps along with being forced to work in household of the Spanish.

300
What was the series of wars that were fought during the 1100 over the holy land?

What is Cruscades

400

A navigational instrument used to determine latitude, or location north or south of Earth’s equator

What is astrolabe

400

One of the major causes for European exploration and the reason why Europeans supported Columbus’s voyage was _________________ which Europeans wanted to gain new items from China.

What is the Spice Trade

400

Why did Christopher Columbus go on the voyage?

He thought that he could make it to Asia on a faster route since he believed the world was smaller. 

400

Name the social classes of the Middle Ages 

First was Kings

Second was Nobles

Third was Knights

Fourth or lowest was Peasents

500

The global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemisphere

What is European Expansion

500

_______________ was known for being the first to sail around the world and led to Europeans understanding the true size of the Earth.

What is Leif Erikson

500

What were some of the reasons behind the European Expansion? What do you think was the most important reason? Why?

Reasons include: New trade items, Gold, and to have more access to land

Most important: Depends on answer

500
Name two of the important inventions that the Middle Easterns created. 

Pin Hole Camera and Astrolabe