Chapter 1: Two Worlds Meet
Magna Carta
"great charter" signed by King John in 1215
democracy
"people's rule"
1517
95 theses listed by Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation)
476
Fall of Rome
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494 treaty in which Portugal and Spain divided the non-Christian world
1347
Bubonic plague
1492
Columbus makes first voyage
1502-1504
Columbus' fourth and final voyage
1493-96
Columbus' second voyage
1498-1500
Columbus' third voyage
1291
Crusades end
Christopher Columbus
Italian explorer who sailed to the Americas and went on four voyages
Ferdinand and Isabella
King and Queen of Spain- funded Columbus voyages
1215
Magna Carta, signed by King John
1275
Merchants including Marco Polo arrive in China
1066
Norman conquest leads to blending of Asia and France
1488
Portugal's Bartolomeau Dias sails around tip of Africa
1350~1300s
Renaissance underway in Italy
1195~1100s
Rise of Universities
1494
Treaty of Tordesillas is signed
market economy
a capitalistic economic system in which there is free competition and prices are determined by the interaction of supply and demand
republic
a place where people elect representives who govern them according to the law
nation-state
a sovereign state inhabitied by a relatively homogenous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality
Black Death
bubonic plague
Duke of Normandy
conquered England in 1066
cash crop
crop that is grown for sale
Renaissance
era of European history extending from the 1300s to the 1500s
kinship
family relationships
The Tainos
first Native Americans Christopher Columbus and crew met
clan
groups of families who are all descended from a common ancestor
scarce
in short supply
Johann Gutenberg
inventor of printing press
lineage
kinship groups that trace their orgin to a common ancestor
plantation
large farm in which crops are raised mainly for sale
Leif Ericson
lead Norsemen
migration
movement of people for the purpose of settling in a new place
savanna
region near the equator with tropical grasslands and scattered trees
Reformation
revolt against the Catholic Church that began in 1517
Bartolomeau Dias
sailed around tip of Africa in 1488
Vasco de Gama
sailed from Portugal to india in 1497
Crusades
series of military campaigns by European Christians from 1096 to 1291 to win Jerusalem from the Turks
King John
signed Magna Carta in 1215
middle class
social class between the very wealthy and the lower working class
Prince Henry
starts navigation school in 1418
oral history
the traditions passed from generation to generation by word of mouth
absolute monarch
those who rule over a state or territory
barter
to trade goods or services without money
Columbian Exchange
transatlantic trade of crops. technology, and culture between the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia
