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49 Cards in this Set
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What was the name of the book that Marco Polo wrote? |
Travels, written in 1296-97 |
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What was Travels describe about? |
His travels to Asia |
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Who inspired and other explorers to journey to these lands 200 years later? |
Columbus and other explorers |
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What cities that became centers of the growing trade in goods? |
Venice, Genoa, and Pisa |
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What did these cities trade? |
spices, silks, perfumes, and precious stones. |
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What is the Renaissance? |
a period of renewed interest in classical Greek and Roman learning |
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Where did Renaissance spread throughout? |
All through Europe in the 1400. |
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What did the Renaissance encourage Europeans? |
to pursue new ideas and challenges and set the stage for exploration and discovery |
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What did the development of large nation-states in Western Europe helped? |
spark foreign trade and travel outside the region |
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What were the monarchies? |
Spain, Portugal, England, and France |
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What did the monarchies looked for? |
ways to increase the power and wealth of their countries |
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What were the new navigational instruments? |
astrolabe and compass |
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What did these instruments do? |
helped navigators more accurately determine direction and location |
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What were the larger and sturdier sailing vessels? |
caravels |
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What did this enabled sailors to do? |
to travel faster and carry more people, cargo, and food |
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What did these adventures do to sailors? |
enabled sailors to explore new routes, especially a sea route to Asia |
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Who is searching for routes to Asia? |
Portugal and Spain |
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Where did they traveled to? |
South to the West Coast of Africa |
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What were the three West African kingdoms flourished? |
Ghana, Mali, Songahai |
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Who was the largest trading Empire? |
Ghana |
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What did they trade and what did they do with trades? |
Its trade in gold and salt contributed to its porsperity |
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When Ghana's power declined, what did the empire do? |
the empire saw new states emerge |
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What did Mali and its capital, Timbuktu, became? |
They became important Islamic centers |
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Who ruled Mali from 1312 to 1337 and was the greatest king? |
Mansa Musa |
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What did he made to Makkah (also spelled Mecca)? |
He made a pilgrimage and to Makkah, the Muslim holy city |
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When did Songhai Empire rose? |
In the late 1400s and became the largest in the history of West Africa |
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Who was there ruler? |
Askiya Muhammed |
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What did Askiya encouraged trade with? |
Europe and Asia |
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What did Askiya introduced to his country? |
a legal system and schools |
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What is a legal system? |
a system of government |
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When did the empire fell? |
Late 1500s when the Moroccans attacked is trade centers |
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Who was the leaders of early exploration? |
The Portuguese |
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What did they hoped for? |
They hoped to find a new route to China and India |
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What did helped for? |
to find a more direct way to get West African gold |
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What did they nicknamed Prince Henry of Portugal? |
Henry the Navigator |
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What did he set up? |
a center for exploration so that scientists could share their knowledge with shipbuilders and sailors |
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Where did Ships sailed to? |
South along the coast of West Africa (also called the Gold Coast) |
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What did they traded and brought for? |
gold and ivory and began buying slaves in the mid 1400s |
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In 1487, Who explored the southernmost part of Africa? |
Bartholomen Dias |
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What did this became known as? |
The Cape of Good Hope |
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What did the king of Portugal hoped for? |
The passage around the tip of Africa would lead to a new route |
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In 1497, Who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope? |
Vasco da Gama |
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What did Vasco da Gama visited? |
Visited East African cities and reached India in 1498 |
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Where did the Vikings reached to? |
North America |
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What did they established? |
Settlements in Iceland and Greenland in the 800s and 900s |
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Who was the viking sailor to explore land west of Greenland? |
Leif Eriksson |
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What did this land known as? |
Vinland about the year 1000. |
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What did Historians think about Vinland and North America? |
They thought that Vinland was North America |
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What did no one knew about? |
what other parts of North America did the Vikings explored |
