Ghana, Mali, and Songhai
This king bolstered trade in Mali by giving away gold and other goods on his Pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The Middle Passage lasted this long.
What is 3 weeks to 3 months?
The country Columbus believed he'd arrived at when he'd actually traveled to the Americas.
What is Asia?
A war imposed by the Catholic church to spread Christianity and to oppose the rising Muslim population in the Middle East.
What are the Crusades?
The most prominent artist during the Renaissance because of his variety of talents and the new ideas he brought to the art field, mathematics, science, and engineering. He is behind the term "Renaissance man."
Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
A lightweight ship that could sail windward; was made popular by Henry the Navigator and used by Columbus.
What is a caravel?
The name of the second leg/stop of this triangular, trans-atlantic trade route.
What is the Middle Passage?
A system in which countries kept the sole right to trade with the colonies they owned.
What is mercantilism?
Knights, noblemen, and clergymen were a part of this feudal class.
What is a vassal?
This invention allowed for the mass production of print materials and thus the increase of literacy, critical thinking, and Reformation.
What is the printing press?
The area in Africa that was risky for traders to travel through because of extremely hot temperatures and few water sources.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This U.S. state received over 75,000 enslaved people during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
What is South Carolina?
The written agreement that resulted in the Line of Demarcation, or the division of the Atlantic and the lands within it between Portugal and Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This group of tribes gained power in the Middle Ages after the fall of Rome.
Who are the Germanic tribes? (Vikings, Visigoths, Franks)
The religious movement that led to the creation of denominations; this movement also embraced the concept of practicing devout faith to the Christian God being more important than doing good deeds.
What is Reformation?
This kingdom was the first to seize control of Ghana and its profitable trade market.
What is Mali?
The two Portuguese explorers established sea trade routes around the Cape of Good Hope?
What is Vasco de Gama and Bartholomew Dias?
The Indigenous group to first encounter Columbus and the first to fall victim to the subjugation and abuse of Native Americans by colonizers.
What is the Taino?
A modern day system that mimics the hoarding of resources from lower classes to maintain their subjugation.
What is capitalism?
A Catholic who challenged the authority of the pope and the church's teachings and was deemed a heretic.
Who is Martin Luther?
The region of Africa that included the "land of gold." (north, south, east, west)
What is West Africa?
The year that the slave trade was abolished.
What is the 1800s?
Columbus allegedly survived a pirate raid/shipwreck during his first voyage to the Mediterranean. This led him to become...
What is an explorer?
This resource is what gave the king the most power over the other feudal classes.
What is land?
The Renaissance's ruling philosophy that focused on the importance of the individual outside of religious teachings as well as the enrichment/betterment of the human experience.
What is humanism?