Chapter 1: Two Worlds Meet

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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


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