In the feudal system, peasants and serfs traded ________ for protection and use of nobles' lands.
What is LABOR / WORK?
100
This is the literal meaning of the word, Renaissance.
What is REBIRTH?
100
This part of L.E.G.S. is represented by the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan and the Mayan settlement in the rainforest.
What is LOCATION & GEOGRAPHY?
100
This is all of the physical surroundings of a place.
What is ENVIRONMENT?
100
Stories of his exploration helped encourage later explorers to to travel and explore.
Who is MARCO POLO?
200
This event killed 1/3 of the European Population and helped end feudalism in Europe.
What is THE BLACK DEATH?
200
This is why Marco Polo was famous.
What is HE TOLD STORIES OF HIS EXPEDITIONS TO CHINA?
200
The Mayans were ruled by this type of government in which small groups of wealth nobles were in charge of each separate city-state.
What is OLIGARCHY?
200
These are items found in nature that are valuable to humans.
What are NATURAL RESOURCES?
200
This invention helped spread stories of adventure and travel, so it increased European Exploration.
What is THE PRINTING PRESS?
300
European governments including Kings had conflict with this social institution because the people listened to it as much or more than their laws.
What is THE CHURCH?
300
Humanism emphasizes these ideas.
What is HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENTS?
300
This is one aspect of society that all three Ancient American civilizations had in common.
What is SACRIFICE (human, food)?
300
These are TWO ways Native Americans of the Southwest adapted to their environments.
What is:
1. BUILDING THICK-WALLED ADOBE HOMES?
2. CREATING LIGHTWEIGHT COTTON CLOTHING?
3. IRRIGATING THEIR LANDS FOR FARMING CORN?
300
This is who thought he had arrived in Asia by sailing west, when really he arrived at the Americas.
Who is CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS?
400
These are TWO benefits The Church provided during the Middle Ages.
What is:
1. HELPING THE POOR?
2. PRESERVING BOOKS?
400
This is how the Medici Family contributed to the European Renaissance.
What is PAYING / SPONSORING ARTISTS & SCIENTISTS.
400
These are two theories that explain how humans first arrived in the Americas.
What is:
1. LAND BRIDGE THEORY (from Asia to N. America across the Bering Strait)
2. PACIFIC RIM THEORY (from Pacific Islands to N. & S. America in skin boats)
400
These are two ways the Native Americans of the Northwest Coast adapted to their environment.
What is:
1. GETTING FOOD FROM THE RIVERS AND SEA?
2. WEARING CEDAR BARK CLOTHING?
3. BUILDING WARM, WOODEN HOMES?
400
The Inca were conquered by this Spanish conquistador.
Who is FRANCISCO PISSARRO?
500
These THREE factors helped end the feudal system in Europe.
What is:
1. THE KING NO LONGER HAD ABSOLUTE POWER.
2. KNIGHTS BEGAN WORKING TOGETHER IN THE CRUSADES.
3. THE BLACK DEATH KILLED MILLIONS, LEAVING FEWER WORKERS / FARMERS.
500
These are three art techniques that improved during the European Renaissance.
What are:
1. PERSPECTIVE
2. CHIAROSCURO
3. FORESHORTENING
500
These are unique ways each Ancient American Civilization modified their environments. (List the civilization and their adaptation.)
What is:
1. INCAN - TERRACING?
2. AZTEC - CHINAMPAS?
3. MAYAN - SLASH & BURN?
500
This is how the Native Americans & European Explorers used nature differently.
What is: NATIVE AMERICANS ADAPTED THEIR CLOTHES AND HOMES TO FIT THEIR ENVIRONMENTS. EUROPEANS CHANGED THE ENVIRONMENT TO MEET THEIR NEEDS.
500
The Aztec were conquered by this Spanish conquistador because he looked like this god.
Who is:
1. Conquistador - HERNAN CORTES?
2. god - QUETZALCOATL?