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39 Cards in this Set
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Leif Eriksson was a
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Norse - or a Northern European from todays Sweden, Norway, And Denmark
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Leif Eriksson lives in
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Greenland
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Leif Eriksson first visited
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Vinland - "Land of Wine" - "Lush grasses so sweet with dew" - "Streams filled with Salmon" - " Vines of Juicy Grapes"
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Leif Eriksson went to Eastern - North America and fought with _____ for _______ years and then left _______ to never return .
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*Native Americans* - *5* - *Vinland*
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A Norse Legend
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Saga
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The Fall of the Roman Empire in 476 marks the beginning of the _____
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Middle Ages
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The Power of kings and queens who headed the kingdoms
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Monarchs
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large owners in their kingdoms are
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lords
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lands ruled by lords are
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manors
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moats are
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waterways
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the lord protected the people on the manors if they did services for him, this was called the _______ system
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Feudal
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In Europe a disease between 1347-1352 called
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The Black Death - it killed 1/4 of its people.
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After the disease , the ____________ came out
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Middle Class
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Between 1096 and 1270 Christians from Europe fought a series of wars called
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The Crusade
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During the First Crusade the Christians captured the city of
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Jerusalem
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Born in Italy , took three and a half years crossed over 7,000 miles of Central Asia with his father and uncle is
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Marco Polo
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A sparked period of interest in learning and knowledge is
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Renaissance
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Artists in the Renaissance that created beautiful paintings and drawings are
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Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci
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Writers made great poems and plays in the Renaissance is
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William Shakespeare
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the head of Portugal was
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Prince Henry
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Prince Henry's Goals were 1. To find a route around ______ to _______. and 2. Find a source of gold that came from lands south in _______
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*Africa* - *Asia* - *Africa*
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The science of piloting ships is
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navigation
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Portuguese designed a sturdy ship for Prince Henry is a
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caravel
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Prince Henry is also called
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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Portugal lead the rest of Europe into the
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Age of Exploration - [ which happened during the 14 and 1500's
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Prince Henry died in ______, where explorers found out that Africa wasn't a _____ like they thought.
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*1460* - *small peninsula*
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West Africans traded with Muslims from North Africa in a journey across the
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Sahara
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from 700 and 1050 in West Africa was the empire called
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Ghana - ~were most traders here were Muslim~
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Ghana's capital is
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Kumbi
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Islamic houses of worship are
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Mosques
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After Ghana was the empire of
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Mali - in 1200's
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The Mali trading center and leader of Islamic culture is
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Timbuktu
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The most powerful of Mali kings was
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Mansa Musa
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1500 the new empire of _____ began
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Songhai ~rich in trade in gold and ivory~
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Songhai was bigger than Mali and Ghana and covered most part of
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West Africa
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There was three specific places the Portuguese named and they were
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Ivory, Gold, and Slave Coast.
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A person who has no freedom and is forced to serve someone else is an
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enslaved person
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A sailor who sailed past the "Cape Of Good Hope" and into the India ocean in 1488 is
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Bartholomeu Dias
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This person went past "Cape of Good Hope" and even traveled to India! in 1497-1498
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Vasco da Gama
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