Medieval Europe
This empire collapsed in Western Europe in 476 CE, beginning the Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Empire?
This city was important because it connected trade between Europe and Asia.
What is Constantinople?
This Chinese invention helped sailors navigate across long distances.
What is the compass?
This philosophy of the Renaissance shifted focus toward human potential, classical learning, and more secular subjects.
What is humanism?
Spain sponsored Columbus’s first voyage because it wanted to find a more direct route to this place.
What is India?
This medieval system was based on land, loyalty, protection, and social hierarchy.
What is Feudalism
Mali's King that made the Great Hajj. Also, the richest person ever, probably.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This world-changing technology was discovered in China and made Medieval knights and castles walls obsolete.
What is Gunpowder Technology
This invention helped Renaissance and Reformation ideas spread more quickly.
What is the printing press?
The American continents were named after this explorer.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
In exchange for protection, this group provided labor for their lords in the Manorial system.
What are Serfs?
Algebra, medical books, mosques, scholarship, and translated Greek texts are achievements most associated with this civilization’s golden age.
What is the Islamic Golden Age?
This Japanese warrior class followed a code of loyalty and served military leaders.
Who are the samurai?
This empire conquered Constantinople in 1453 and controlled access to important eastern Mediterranean trade routes.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This exchange moved plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
European knights and Japanese samurai were similar because both pledged loyalty to this type of person.
Who is their military leader/Feudal lord?
This form of leadership combined political and religious authority in the Islamic world after Muhammad.
What is a Caliphate?
Chinese innovations, eastern ideas, and foreign diseases made their way west to Europe via this trade route.
What is the Silk Road?
Martin Luther criticized Church abuses in this document.
What are the 95 Theses?
This Atlantic trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas and caused the disruption of African communities through slavery.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This Frankish ruler built a large empire in Western Europe around 800 CE and was crowned emperor by the pope.
Who is Charlemagne?
These are the 3 "Abrahamic" religions".
What is Judaism, Christianity, Islam?
This period of Mongol stability made travel and trade across Eurasia safer, helping connect East and West.
What is Pax Mongolica?
This Crusade sacked Constantinople, stripping it of its Roman heritage and material culture.
What is the IV Crusade?
This economic system argued that colonies existed to make the mother country wealthy.
What is mercantilism?