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Movement. The movement of ideas, goods, people, technology, and diseases.
What is the grade 9 Cultural History theme in the Ross Spiral Curriculum?
During the 15th century, this region was the most technologically and economically advanced region in the world.
China
Three great empires that expanded during the 15th to the 16th century. They made extensive use of gunpowder.
What were the Gunpowder empires?
This Chinese admiral led seven large expeditions to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf Region in the early 14th century
Zheng He
Thirteenth-century Venetian traveler whose writings inspired European voyages of exploration
Who was Marco Polo?
Considered by some historians as the wealthiest ruler of his age, he ruled over an extensive empire in the fourteenth century. The capital city of his kingdom was the city of Timbuktu. His legendary wealth whetted the Spanish and Portuguese appetite to explore the coasts of Africa in search of gold.
Who was mania Musa?
A Portuguese Prince who founded a school of navigation in the 15th century that played a crucial role in the Portuguese exploration of the western coast of Africa
Who was Henry the Navigator?
He was a Portuguese explorer who sailed to India in 1498.
Who was Vasco de Gama?
It was a road system of roads connecting most of Euroasia, facilitating trade and travel. It enabled the diffusion of ideas, technology, people, and disease.
What were the silk roads?
A was a centuries-long war between Christians and Muslims that culminated in the surrender of Granada by the Muslims to the Catholic monarch, Ferdinand II of Aragon, in 1492.
Was was the Reconquista?
A policy of forcibly converting and expelling Jews and Muslims from Spain.
What was The Inquisition?
1492 marks a seminal moment in world history. In this year, this Genoese explorer lands in the Bahama islands.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
They were a group of ambitious Spanish military commanders seeking conquest and gold in the New World.
Who were the Conquistadors?
A diffusion of goods, peoples, technologies, ideas, and diseases between the old world and the new world.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This technology, invented in 1543 by Johannes Gutenberg, enabled a rapid diffusion of ideas in Europe.
What was the printing press?
Transplanted from the new world to Europe, this plant resulted in an explosion in the European population.
What was the potato?
The revival of Classical Greek and Roman texts that began in the 14th century in Italy.
What was the Renaissance?
This capital city of the Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottoman forces in 1453.
What was Constantinople?
Considered by many historians, the ground zero of the Renaissance derived its wealth from the wool industry and banking.
What was Florence, Italy?
Considered by historians to be the father of the Renaissance, revived and popularized interest in Classical Greek and Roman texts.
Who was Francisco Petrarch?
Wrote a political thesis, arguing that it was better for rulers to be feared than loved.
Who was Machiavelli?
An individual during the Renaissance, who was versed in many areas of knowledge, both scholarly as well as practical.
What was the Renaissance Man?
A book written in 1632 by Galileo that contrasted the Copernican model with the Polemic model. This book infuriated Pope Urban VIII.
What was the Dialogue Concerning Two Chief World Systems?
A book written by Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus in 1543 that put forth the heliocentric model
What was On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres?
A certificate issued by the Catholic Church that omitted sins for people in Purgatory. This was sold by the Catholic Church to raise money.
What was Indulgence?
What was the Jamestown Colony?
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was John Winthrop?
They wanted to purify the Church of England from all vestiges of Catholicism. They left England and resided in Holland for ten years. Then they left Holland for Virginia in 1620.
Who were Pilgrims/the Separatists?
Who were the Puritans?
Fought between Catholics and Protestants between 1618 and 1648. It engulfed most of Europe in political, social, and economic turmoil.
What was the Thirty Years' War?