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He travelled 7,000 miles overland, enjoyed special status in China, worked for Kublai Khan, and wrote an extremely influential book that inspired Europeans to explore.
Who is Marco Polo?
This is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is technology?
They were Spanish adventurers and explorers who wanted to conquer the New World for Spain and share their findings of gold.
Who are conquistadors?
They had a tremendous amount of success converting people to Christianity in Asia.
Who are the Jesuits (particularly Matteo Ricci and Saint Francis Xavier)?
This was the first European country to get serious about overseas exploration.
What is Portugal?
They were Arabians and Italian cities that stood in the way of the rest of Europe getting richer for trading directly with India and Asia.
What are middlemen?
These Native Americans lived in a kingdom in Peru.
Who are the Inca?
They were the most terrifying and successful fighting force of their time in the 1200s and conquered the largest land empire the world had ever known.
Who are the Mongols?
He coined the nickname "New World", and two continents are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
These Native Americans lived in the mountains of central Mexico.
Who are the Aztec?
These were the disastrous results of China halting it's voyages in the 1400s.
What are declining trade and forgetting shipbuilding within only 50 years?
This Portuguese mariner named the Pacific Ocean, and his crew was the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Many believe the mixture of Spanish and Native Americans led to this ethnicity/race.
Who is Hispanic/Latino?
This is why the Chinese suddenly halted their successful voyages in the 1400s.
What are:complaining the trips cost too much, were letting outside influences in China, and were making merchants rich (which was against Confucianism's emphasis on helping the country unselfishly and not being greedy)?
This is why the Aztec religion was cruel.
What are the Aztecs sacrificing tens of thousands of captives per year and playing the ball game (the losing team would be sacrificed)?
They made it possible for ships to sail into the wind and be more agile.
What are the triangular sail and stern rudder?
He led seven successful voyages for China and traveled a total of 7,000 miles.
Who is Zheng He?
These four reasons are why so few Spaniards were able to defeat so many Native Americans.
What are guns/cannons, horses/dogs, disease, and Native American allies helping the Spanish?
These two Vikings discovered North America 500 years before Christopher Columbus.
Who are Erik the Red and Leif Ericsson?
This is why Bartolome de Las Casas' legacy is complex.
What are suggesting that Africans would make better slaves than Native Americans and fighting successfully to defend indigenous persons' human rights?
These were the two long-term results of Christopher Columbus sailing to America.
What are European colonization and bringing Western Civilization to the Americas?
This instrument measured the position and elevation of the stars and determined a sailor's latitude at sea.
What is the astrolabe?
These are the results of Our Lady of Guadalupe's miracles.
What are ten million Native Americans converting to Catholicism in ten years/the conversion of Mexico?
This is why Hernan Cortes' legacy is complex.
What is: Cortes legitimately wanted to convert the Aztec to Christianity and he massively lowered the amount of human sacrifice; however, in the process thousands of Aztec died and their empire became Mexico (it brought the positives and negatives of western civilization)?
This is the worst username on Discord.
This is the best username on Discord.
What is "lord slumped's son"?
What is "jeninipanini"?