Dora the Explorer & Friends
He brought mapmakers to Portugal to refine his explorers’ maps of Africa’s coast. And he brought scientists to Portugal to train his explorers in the science of navigation.
Henry the Navigator
They had excellent skill as archers on horseback in battle. They would travel great distances and endure unbelievable hardships. And they were extremely savage and ruthless.
The Mongols
Muslim holy warriors who fought with 3 goals:
Spread the Islamic faith
Build Islam’s empire
Win riches and honor for themselves
Ghazis
He was both a Mongol and a Turk and he claimed to be a Ghazi warrior.
Tamerlane
The Reconquista was a 770 year long crusade which tried to reclaim what land from the Moors? What event marked its end?
The Christian kingdoms of northern Iberia gradually reclaimed the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. It ended in 1492 when King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile conquered the Emirates of Granada.
He set out to find an island where Columbus had not landed and in April 1513, he landed on Florida.
Ponce de Leon
It was a time of great accomplishments in Chinese art, literature and drama. Their emperors spent a lot of time and money building the Great Wall of China.
The Ming Dynasty
This event caused by this empire meant that:
The 1,000 year old Byzantine Empire ended.
The much older Roman Empire, which the Byzantine Empire had once been a part of, came to an end
Some say the Middle Ages ended and the Renaissance began (a time of renewed interest in humanities like fine art, literature, and scholarship in the West)
When the Ottoman empire succeeded in conquering Constantinople in May, 1493.
The only woman in Chinese history to rule outright.
Wu Zetian or Empress Wu
The best known warrior of the Reconquista era and a Great hero among the Spaniards.
El Cid
This was part of the beginning of the Portuguese empire, the world’s 1st true overseas empire
The Gold Coast
This was not a Muslim Empire. They grew wealthy by charging heavy taxes on the salt and gold trade that crossed the Sahara.
The Ghana Empire
A harvest of young Christian boys who came from the Christian lands that the Ottomans conquered.
Devshirme, “child-harvesting” or “blood tax”
The longest reigning and most accomplished of all Ottoman sultans. His 46 years of reign were a Golden Age and were marked by his accomplishments in law, literature and arts.
Suleiman the Magnificent
March 31, 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella forced all Jews to leave their kingdom with this.
Alhambra Decree
After his first voyage, Columbus asked Pope Alexander VI to do this. What was it and why did it give Spain?
To establish a new line that would divide Spain’s discoveries from Portugal’s. It gave Spain the right to claim any land west of this line.
They perfected Middle America’s most complete writing system.
The Mayans
They were learned in literature and art as well as in warfare. They were extremely dedicated to the masters. They were not afraid to die in battle.
Samurai
He only promoted those who were best qualified to lead his armies. And he developed the Yam network for communication.
Genghis Khan
In 1483, he became the grand inquisitor or highest court officer of the Spanish Inquisition. He was Isabella’s personal confessor and priest who convinced her to establish the tribunal.
Tomas de Torquemada
He landed in Brazil which was the largest colony in the Portuguese Empire.
Pedro Alvares Cabral
They built well-engineered roads and some are still in use today, they created terraced farming, and built durable rope bridges.
The Incas
In this battle, the Mamluks destroyed the Mongol army and beheaded its commander, dealing the Mongol army its first serious defeat since the days before Genghis Khan.
The Battle of Ain Jalut
He was known as the Morning Star of the Reformation because he argued that the Bible, nor the Pope or the Roman Catholic Church, was the true authority on Christianity more than a century before Martin Luther. In 1380 he produced the first translation of the Holy Bible into the English language.
John Wycliffe
The Spanish Inquisition had 2 main purposes. What were they
To expose Moriscos and Marranos
To defend the Roman Catholic faith against heretics whose beliefs and teachings disagreed with the church's.