Exploring the East
An example of Genghis Khan’s ruthlessness and the might of Mongols.
What is the one Mongol soldiers versus the fifteen Muslims story?
(other examples: Genghis Khan‘s quote of his greatest joy, ”flattening his enemy’s tent”)
How the Plague spread through Europe.
What is through rats and fleas?
The reason Columbus sailed to the Americas.
What is finding a faster route to India?
Mali was known as this.
What is the ”land of gold”?
The event that started the Renaissance.
What is the fall of Constantinople?
What Marco Polo did to make many in Europe seek adventure.
What is a traveled to China through the Silk Road and wrote about his experiences living there?
Two reasons why Queen Elizabeth was know as “Good Queen Bess”.
What is allowing Christians to practice either freely, and being “married” to England? (also claiming new land, defending against invasion, and making alliances with other countries)
How the new land became known as the Americas instead of Columbia.
What is Amerigo Vespucci proving that the Columbus had found new land?
The kingdom of Mali became rich after getting doing this.
What is taxing the gold and salt coming through the kingdom?
The invention that made the Renaissance possible.
What is the Gutenberg Printing Press?
How the Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople.
What is carry boats across water, used large canons, and attacked during an eclipse?
Why Queen Mary was known as ”Bloody Mary”.
What is her execution of Protestant Christians?
Magellan named the ocean west of the Americas the Pacific Ocean for this reason.
What is because of its peaceful nature?
Mansa Musa had to borrow money after doing this.
What is giving alms of gold in Egypt?
Martin Luther’s main complaints about the Catholic church.
What are penances and indulgences?
Why the new dynasty in India was known as the Moghul dynasty.
What is Muslim prince Babur, a descendant of Genghis Khan, invading India and defeating the Sultan of Delhi?
How England‘s navy defeated the Spanish armada.
What is Francis Drake’s use of smaller ships to defeat Spain’s galleons?
The theory of the lost colony.
What is attack by the Croatan natives?
How Hernan Cortes conquered Tenochtitlan.
What is an army of 100,000 Spanish soldiers and Indian allies?
Copernicus’s discovery that changed the view of humans in religion.
What is the revolution of the Earth around the Sun?
Two reasons why Ivan was known as “the Great”.
What is united the Russian cities and made Moscow teh capital? (Also, built walls around the Kremlin, built beautiful cathedrals, replaced princes with loyal governors)
Three effects of the Black Plague.
What is the end of the feudal system, 1/3 of the population dead, shortened apprenticeships, and urbanization?
Evidence of Jacques Cartier‘s efforts of colonizing the Americas for France.
What is the name of Canada (French speaking Canadians)?
How the Aztecs built Tenochtitlan.
What is the use of poles, reed mats, and mud? (or the vision of an eagle grasping a snake on top of a cactus?)
Galileo used his study of logic to create this book.
What is a book to argue both theories of Copernicus and the church?