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what age was the year 1200

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the middle age

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what was the atlantic world and what countries/ continents were involved

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relationship between the people of the americas, Europe and africa

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does the atlantic world exist before 1400s

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no

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what did people think the shape of the world was

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they knew it wasn’t flat

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who was Muhammaed Al Idrisi and why was he important

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  • drew an accurate map but it wasn’t oriented the right way
  • he doesn’t know how far north or south africa is
  • represents what the world would look like in Mediterranean mind
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what was so important about Venice

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  1. few places that kept trade after the fall of the roman empire
  2. city is surrounded by water and it was all connected
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in the roman empire, why was everything so accessible

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everything was connected by sea and there were multiple water ways

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who was marco polo (1254-1324)

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  • son of a venetian merchant
  • famous for crossing from venice —-> china on the silkroad
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what was the silk road

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label for all commercial connections
- it was not just one road

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what was the venetian-genoese war about

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  • fought over trade and trade routes
  • the war lasted from 1256-1381 and macro polo was captured during that time
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what did marco polo do when he was in jail

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-share his stories w/ Rusticello da piza
- that is where the journals of macro polo came from
- most famous copied document at the time

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who was Mansa musa I

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  • mali emperor
  • mali empire was wealthy and big
  • trade groups and gold
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who did mansa musa trade with

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northern african merchants because he noticed they had large amounts or gold

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what happens when mansa goes to mecca

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  • slaves and people accompany him
  • goes to cairo
    -gave away so much gold that the value of gold decreased in cairo
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what is the catalan atlas map

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  • enormous map
  • map that showed the story of the world
  • included the stories of macro polo and other famous stories
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what was the catalan atlas map used for

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not really for traders but for kings/ rulers

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what was the effect of the catalan atlas map

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made people want to wander and to go find stuff

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what was the second roman empire called and who was the ruler

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Constantinople
constantine the great

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where was constantinople built on

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byzantium/ byzantine empire

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what was a flaw of constantinople

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frontier didn’t have a lot of protection, and that is what led to its downfall

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what caused the byzantine empire/ constantinople to shrink

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the pressure of the turks and the ottoman empire

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what was the importance of constantinople

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it was the doorway to the east of rome

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who was Mehmed the second

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  • conquered and layed seige on constantinople
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what happens as constantinople falls

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doorway to the east falls
- constantinople is named Istanbul

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what were the ottoman- venetian wars
- conflicts betwen the ottoman empire and the republic of venice -
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where is portugal located at this time 1500
it is a kingdom in the Iberian peninsula
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why is portugual important
it is the first place we see that does not have a Mediterranean peninsula
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where is the wealth in the eastern Mediterranean
venice+ genova
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what famous navigator comes out of Portugal and what does he want to do
prince henry the naviagtor, wants to push for private industry
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what did venice and genova build that could help their economy
- a trading outpost - genoese built the fort @ the outpost to protect themselves -
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what effect did the collapse of the maritime cities have on henry the navigator
he saw it as an opportunity to explore more of the atlantic
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At this time what religion was present in northern africa
islam
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what did christians at this time period want to do to countries that had Islamic influences
they wanted to bypass them
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what is happening with portuguese ships in the 1400s
started getting closer to africa
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what did islands represent to naviagtors
Safety and navigatinal aide because it means that they were close to land
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what were the canary islands
1st set of islands that Portugal then Spain came to
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what was important to remeber about the canary current
current is strong and the current takes a hard right so navigators like to avoid it - makes moving down south difficult
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what coast does Portugal go down
the portugal coast
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what does extration evolve from
from gold to slaves
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what was el mina
portuguese name for the mine - used as an outpost and for gold repositing
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what happened to el mina in 1637
the dutch captured it
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what was a weakness of el mina
it wasn't bulilt as a defense outpost
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where is elmina now
in present day ghana
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what country did most of the portuguese get their slaves
angola
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what did the portuguese need slaves for
The cultivation of sugar
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why was sugar so important
it was more profitable than gold
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who was Batolomium Diaz
- came back to portgual saying he found the bottom of Africa - cape of good hope
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why was finding the cape of good hope important
it means that they could find a quicker way to asia
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why did the want to get to china by water
because it had good trading advantage
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who was christoper colombus
- kid that was born during the ottoman Constantinople wars - born genoese
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what did christoher always want to be
- a sailor but his father wanted him to be in the family cloth business
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how did christopher get to sail
he would sign up for different sailing positions
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who inspired christopher coloumbus
the stories of marco polo and he even carried his book with him
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at this time what was the portuguese interested in about in africa
their gold
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who was ferdinand and isabella
- king and queen of spain - both were heads of the royal family and when they married it was very powerful -conquered the last Islamic place
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what was the reconquista
spain takes back their land from islamic forces
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who was paolo Toscanellidal Pozzo
- mathmatician and map maker who believed he had the right map of the world - believed that everyone did not know the size of the earth
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what was wrong with pozzo's map
missing north,central, and south america
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how many ships does ferdinand and isabella give colombus
3 ships because they wanted to bring wealth into the system
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what did colombus tell ferdinand and isabelle he was going to accomplish
finding a quicker way to china
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what is the difference between sustainable vs. extractable
- sustainable: long term availability to resources - extractable- withdrawing materials from the earth
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what country did spain want to tap into
china
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what were the names of the 3 ships that colombus sailed in
nina, pinta, santa maria
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where did colombus think he landed and where did he actually land
india bahamas
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what was the type of map that colombus usd
tasconelly map
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what was the perspective of colombus after interacting with the natives
they thought he was cruel and that he was becoming a tyrant
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what was constructed in 1914
the panama canal
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what country established themselves on the west coast of africa
portugal
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what was the treaty of Tordesillas
agreement between Spain and portugal that split the cape verde in Africa and land west of the line was spain and land east of the line was for portugal
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who discovered the trade winds and how did they do it
portugal sailing in the south atlantic

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