Invention & Ideas
Which tool showed sailors the direction of north?
What is the compass?
Which monarchs sponsored Columbus’s voyage?
Who are Ferdinand and Isabella?
Why were Europeans locked out of land trade routes?
What is Islamic state control?
Who were the Mongols?
What is nomadic people of eastern steppes of Asia?
What were the effects of Cultural Diffusion?
What is the spread of religion, technology, and innovations?
Which Chinese invention made long-distance communication easier?
What is gunpowder?
In what year did Columbus reach the Americas?
What is 1492?
What new technology did monarchs use to strengthen their armies?
What are gunpowder weapons?
What country was Marco Polo in?
What is China?
What were some rise of cities?
Which invention allowed books to be produced faster in Europe after 1450?
What is the printing press?
What type of empire did Portugal create in the Indian Ocean?
What is a trading-post empire?
Who sponsored maritime exploration and sea routes?
What are monarchs?
What were some products & inventions from the Silk Road Trade?
What is printing, gunpowder, paper currency, & playing cards?
Who was Margery Kempe?
What is a Christian mystic who traveled, visiting holy Christian sites like Jerusalem and Rome?
Which number system came from India and spread to the Islamic world and Europe?
What are Arabic numerals?
Who was the first European monarch to sponsor exploration by sea?
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Name one cause that accelerated European maritime exploration.
What is political rivalry, envy, desire for wealth, or need for new routes?
What year did Genghis Khan died?
What is 1227?
Where did the bubonic plague originate?
What is East Asia?
Which Chinese invention changed warfare with cannons and guns?
What is gunpowder weaponry?
What did Spanish colonization eventually kickstart that became more profitable than the Indian Ocean trade?
What is the transatlantic trade network?
What became the main motivation for monarchs to expand overseas?
What is gaining wealth and power through trade?
Over how many years did Genghis Khan conquer most of Asia?
What is 21 years?
The citrus was introduced by who?
What is Muslim merchants?