Asia
This Mongol leader united the nomadic tribes in Mongolia and began to conquer areas in China with a join or empire or die mentality
Genghis Khan
What city was the capital of learning within West Africa?
Timbuktu
This explorer discovered America by mistake while trying to find faster trade routes to Asia.
Christopher Columbus
Founded the Laws of Gravity and motion
Issac Newton
What church formed out of the questioning of the Catholic Church?
Protestant
The grandson of Genghis. This ruler was the head of the Yuan Dynasty in China
Kublai Khan
This position within West African culture focused on passing down stories.
Griots
This explorer was around the Southeast region of North America looking for the cities of gold .
Hernando do Soto
Credited to be the the individual to place the sun at the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Coppernicus
Who was responsible for publishing the 95 Thesis?
Martin Luther
This European explorer traveled to work for Kublai on the Silk Road and when he got back wrote a book about his travels.
Marco Polo
The name of the three main kingdoms of West Africa that we learned this year are.
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
A Portuguese explorer who was the first to circumnavigate the world in 1522.
Ferdinand Magellan
Used a improved telescope in order to prove the Heliocentric Theory correct.
Gallieo
Who was responsible for translating the Bible into English and ultimately burned at the stake for doing so?
William Tyndale
This geographic body of water separates mainland China and Japan.
Sea of Japan
What was the name of the Trade Routes that extended across the Sahara Dessert
Tran-Saharan Trade Routes
Spanish Explorer who traveled to Peru and concurred the Incas .
Francisco Pizzaro
Credited with coming up with the theory of elliptical orbits.
Kepler
What invention allowed for more ideas to be easily accessible for the common person to read?
Printing Press
What were the three construction projects that the Ming Dynasty completed?
Built forbidden city
Improved the Great Wall
Rebuilt Grand Canal
This West African king is known for taking a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Mansa Musa
Name the capital of the Aztec and Inca empire.
Tenchilitan
Cusco
Credited with creating the Scientific Method system that is still used today.
Francis Bacon
What was the reason for Henry VIII's transition to a new church? What were the religions of both Mary and Elizabeth?
He was not granted the right to divorce his wife because of the pope.
Mary- Catholic
Elizabeth- Protestant