Chapter 3 Section 1-4
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- What is a saga?
- Norse Legends
- What is the Middle Ages?
- A period from A.D.500 to 1500 during which feudalism replacedcentralized government and the Roman Catholic church became a powerful force in Europe
- What is a monarch?
- A ruler or head of country
- What is the feudal system?
- A system where the owner of the land mangaed both the land and its people
- What is a serf?
- A peasant in the Middle Ages who was bound to the land
- What are the Crusades?
- A series of wars fought by European Christians between A.D. 1096 and 1270
- What is the Renaissance?
- Revival of interest in the arts, literature, culture, and learning of ancient Freece and Rome
- Who is Leif Eriksson?
- A Norse, trader, and sailor
- Who is Marco Polo?
- Made a book "Description of the World" which sparked the interest in knowledge called the Renaissance
- Who is Michelangelo?
- Created beautiful paintings and drawings to show nature and people as they really looked
- What is navigation?
- The science of piloting ships
- What is a caravel?
- A ship that the portuguese shipbuilders made. It used triangular sails. These ships could easily sail against the wind and work their way in and out along coastlines
- What is the Age of Exploration?
- During this period sea captains and ecplorers from many different European countries sailed the oceans and mapped the world more accurately than ever had been done before
- What is a enslaved person?
- One forced to serve another person in ways decided by the slaveholder
- Who is Prince Henry?
- Was a leader and had the idea of making ships easier to navigate
- Who is Mansa Musa?
- The most powerful out of all of the Mali Kings, persuaded some of Islam's finest scholars and architects to work in Timbuktu
- Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
- He sailed as far south as present-day South Africa
- Who is Vasco da Gama?
- Portuguese explorer who traveled south along the coast of Africa
- What is mutiny?
- Seize the captain and officers and take control of the ship
- What is Taino?
- The Native Americans who lived on the island that Christopher Columbus discovered
- What is a colony?
- A settlement made in another land by people who are ruled by their home countries
- Who is Christopher Columbus?
- A very famous explorer who discovered many lands
- Who is Queen Isabella?
- Spanish Monarch
- What is a plantation?
- Large farms taht usually produce only one crop to be sold
- What is the Columbian Exchange?
- The exchange of goods and ideas and people between Europe and the Americas came
- What is a strait?
- A narrow channel of water
- What is the Northwest Passage?
- A possible waterway
- Who is vasco Nunez de Balboa?
- Spanish explorer who was the first European to discover a way across the Americas
- Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
- First to find out how big the ocean is
- Who is John Cabot?
- Traveled across the Atlantic in search of Asia
- Who is giovanni da Verrazano?
- The French hired him to search for the Northwest Passage
- Who is Jacques Cartier?
- Made 2 voyages