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Cortes and Pizarro defeated these two Meso-American groups.
Who are the Aztecs & Incas?
100
This "stiff" adjective describes the social structure of feudal Japan & medieval Europe
What is a rigid social class?
100
Literacy rates in Europe increase because of the invention of this.
What is the Printing Press?
100
An Italian merchant that lived in China for 17 years and wrote many stories. His stories encouraged trade between Europe & China.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
This Islamic empire conquered the Byzantines for control of the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
200
This is the term for the transfer of foods, animals, and diseases between the Old & New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Under feudalism, the peasants work the lord's land in exchange for this.
What is protection?
200
"The end justifies the means," said this man. He wrote an important book entitled, "The Prince."
Who is Machiavelli?
200
Created centuries before the European's invention, this Chinese innovation never caught on, due to the complexity of Chinese language.
What is movable type?
200
These holy wars ultimately increased trade between Europe and the Middle East.
What are the Crusades?
300
This country was the first to colonize much of the New World.
What is Spain?
300
A code of conduct a knight must follow.
What is chivalry?
300
In addition to nepotism, simony, and worldliness, this practice was protested by Martin Luther in his 95 Theses.
What is the sale of indulgences?
300
Their use of psychological warfare and iron stirrups allowed them to defeat much larger enemies.
Who are the Mongols?
300
Ghana, Mali & Songhai became rich from this unlikely exchange.
What is the gold-salt trade?
400
This "central" pathway across the Atlantic moved enslaved Africans to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
This was the most important institution after the fall of Rome and throughout the Middle Ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
400
The Renaissance revived these two "classic" cultures.
What are Greece & Rome?
400
The Chinese thought they were superior to other cultures. This belief is known as this...
What is ethnocentrism?
400
Meaning "great charter," this document limited the power of monarchs in England.
What is the Magna Carta?
500
I started a school for sailors, geographers & cartographers.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
500
A horrible disease that killed millions of Asians and Europeans, named for the welts that it left on a victim's body.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
500
This list of complaints was famously nailed to a church door in Wittenburg, Germany.
What are the 95 Theses?
500
He is the Asian "Columbus". He conducted seven voyages on a ship that was over 400 feet long.
Who is Zheng He?
500
This Shi'a empire reached a Golden Age before wars with its neighbors led to its decline.
What is the Safavid Empire?