What is one of a series of expeditions Europeans made to regain control of Christian holy sites in the Middle East from the ad 1000 to 1200s?
What is Crusade?
100
What is related to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome?
What is classical?
100
What does Renaissance mean?
What is rebirth?
100
What is the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes?
What is technology?
100
Ghana grew wealthy from placing what on trade?
What are taxes?
200
What is the religion that dominated Western Europe after the Roman Empire fell in AD 476?
What is Catholic Church?
200
What are the Asian goods that Wealthy Europeans were eager to buy?
What are spices, perfumes, silks, and precious stones?
200
What is the name of the painting that Leonardo de Vinci painted?
What is Mona Lisa?
200
What is an instrument that shows the direction of magnetic north?
What is a compass?
200
Mali's great king, Mansa Musa, a Muslim traveld to Makkah (now Saudi Arabia) and returned to what city that became the center of Islamic art and learning?
What is Timbuktu?
300
What is the religion that spread rapidly in the Middle East and Africa in the early ad 600s?
What is Islam?
300
What are the 3 Italian ports?
What are Venice, Genoa, and Pisa?
300
What did the Renaissance set the stage for?
What is exploration and discovery?
300
What is an instrument used to plan a course using the stars?
What is an astrolabe?
300
Which empire lived along the Niger River and overthrew Mali rule?
What is Songhai?
400
Who is the Italian explore that returned from Chine and wrote the book "Travels"?
Who is Marco Polo?
400
What is the reason the Europeans looked for a route to the East?
What is high prices?
400
What the strong powers in Spain, Portugal, England and France called?
What are monarchs?
400
What became better and more accurate with the use of the astrolabe and compass?
What are maps?
400
what is a journey to a holy place?
What is pilgrimage?
500
What Italian Explorer read "Travels" and was inspired to make his own expedition?