People
In the Book of Exodus, The Ten Commmandments were given to this leader of The Hebrews.
Who was Moses?
The year that Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain towards North America.
What was 1492?
A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed, which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims.
What is Islam?
The capital of the Mali Empire, located just off the flood plain on the great bend in the Niger River.
What is Timbuktu?
An Italian navigator who was funded by the Spanish Government to find a new trade route to Asia by sea.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
A form of government in which an assembly of ordinary citizens makes decisions.
What is direct democracy?
Providing a choice between two or among more than two things.
What is an alternative?
Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Christianity and Judaism
What are two religions of the Middle East that shaped European religious and moral beliefs?
This connected China, India, and the Middle East. Traded goods and helped to spread culture.
What was The Silk Road?
City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and a ritual center of the Islamic religion.
What is Mecca?
Groups of Christians, led by Martin Luther, protested and left the Roman Catholic Church.
Who were the protestants?
This trade route connected China, India, and the Middle East. Goods and culture were spread.
What is The Silk Road?
To partake in an activity.
What is participation?
Chinese explorer made several voyages with a fleet of over 300 ships and visited over 30 nations.
Camels: do not need much water, can walk long distances in great heat, and can hold very heavy loads.
Why were camels used by traders to cross the African and Asian deserts?
A form of government in which an assembly of ordinary citizens makes decisions.
The nation where Islam originated.
In 1498 this Portuguese sailor passed the southern tip of Africa and continued north and east to India.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
What is the hajj?
This is the Christian belief in eternal life offered by The Lord Jesus Christ.
What is salvation?
Prophet of Allah; founder of Islam.
Who was The Prophet Muhammad?
Mansa Musa's hajj to Mecca helped to accomplish this.
What is spreading the religion of Islam throughout Africa?
Personal convictions about right and wrong.
What are moral beliefs?
This is where Christopher Columbus believed he landed his ships.
What is India?
Who was Pope Urban II?
A body of ideas, particularly in religion, is taught to people as truthful or correct.
A system in which a ruler grants parts of his land to lords.
What is feudalism?
The brother of the King of Portugal, who in the 1400s built a large fleet for Portugal and began to expand Portuguese power and the Catholic Church across the world.
Who was Henry The Navigator?
The religion of Mansa Musa.
What is Islam?
A body of ideas, particularly in religion, taught to people as truthful or correct.
What is a doctrine?
In the year 1000 AD, this civilization was the most developed in the world.
What was China?
A German monk who began to protest the Roman Catholic Church in 1517.
Who was Martin Luther?
Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north. Ships could sail out of sight of land and still find their way back home.
What is the magnetic compass?
The science of locating the position and plotting the course of ships.
What is navigation?