Medieval Towns & Trade
What group of merchants gained political power in towns?
Who were the Burghers?
What were the Church-led campaigns from the 11th to 14th centuries to convert non-Christians?
What were the Crusades?
What was the name of the Mongol leader who unified the tribes in the early 1200s?
Who was Genghis Khan?
What was Mali’s most valuable resource that attracted Islamic traders?
What is gold?
What deadly disease spread along trade routes and killed 1/3 of Europe’s population?
What is the Bubonic Plague?
What was the name of the trade alliance formed in 1358 across northern Europe?
What was the Hanseatic League?
What were religious beliefs or practices that went against the Church called?
What is heresy?
What name was given to the Mongol group that conquered Russia?
What was the Golden Horde?
Who was the wealthy ruler of Mali who built Timbuktu?
Who was Mansa Musa?
What global trade route connected China to the Mediterranean?
What is the Silk Road?
What architectural feature allowed cathedrals to have taller windows and vaulted ceilings?
What are flying buttresses?
Which Pope started the Inquisition to prosecute heretics?
Who was Pope Gregory IX?
Who ruled China as Genghis Khan’s successor?
Who was Kublai Khan?
What was the name of the capital city Mansa Musa developed?
What is Timbuktu?
Name one major city that prospered because of the Silk Road.
What is Samarkand or Kashgar?
What educational movement led to the growth of universities and reintroduced Greek and Muslim ideas to Europe?
What is Scholasticism?
Which Pope persecuted Jews and heretics and led the failed Fourth Crusade?
Who was Pope Innocent III?
What Mongol leader invaded India and destroyed cities, helping spread Islam?
Who was Timur Lang (Tamerlane)?
Who founded the Songhai Empire and turned it into a cultural center?
Who was Sonni Ali?
Which Muslim traveler visited the Islamic world, India, and China?
Who was Ibn Battuta?
Which types of studies were the focus at medieval universities?
What are philosophy, law, and medicine?
What philosopher argued that faith and reason could work together?
Who was Thomas Aquinas?
Name two ways the Mongols impacted global history.
What are cultural diffusion and increased global trade?
What trade route connected West Africa with the Islamic world?
What is the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Which trade network in northern Europe helped form a middle class and influenced future trade alliances?
What is the Hanseatic League?