unit one Exploration and Conquest

unit one Exploration and Conquest

1. Meso-America

   • Mayan
     • What happened
       • warfare
       • famine
       • drought
     • Known for
       • Calendar
       • Mathematicians
       • Writing system
       • Astronomers
     • population
       • 10 million
       • 40 cities
   • Incan
     • Agriculture
       • drainage systems and canals to expand their crop resources.
       • Potatoes, tomatoes, cotton, peanuts and coca
       • Llama for meat and transportation.
   • Aztec
     • population
       • 5 million
       • 400-500 city states
       • farmers and warriors
     • practices
       • Trade
       • Tribute
       • Human Sacrifice
     • what happened
       • warfare

2. Norse Explorers

   • discovered
     • Iceland
     • Greenland
   • people
     • Eric the red
     • Lief Eriksson

3. CHRISTIANITY

   • 30 AD ­ Death of Jesus
   • 325 AD Constantine ­ Nicean Conference
   • 1054 AD Great Schism
   • 1096 AD Crusades Begin

4. MARCO POLO

   • IBN BATUTA
   • Traveled across the eastern continents

5. The Silk Road

   • connects roman empire to china
   • used to transport goods by land

6. CHINESE ­ ZHENG HE

   • Much larger than columbuses ship

7. RENAISSANCE

   • starts in Italy
   • lots of art

8. Black Death ­ Bubonic Plague

   • killed one third of Europe population
   • Jews were blamed

9. Protestant Reformation

   • Martin Luther
     • 95 thesis
   • led to formation of Protestant churches
   • criticism of Catholic Church impacted the spiritual, social, and cultural spheres of Europe

10. SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 1453­-1800

    • Copernicus
      • Heliocentric universe
    • Kepler
      • laws of planetary motion
    • Galileo
      • Father of Physics & Astronomy
    • Bacon
      • scientific method
        • Scientific Method ­ Four Steps: Hypothesis, Observation, Verification, Experimentation
    • Newton
      • "discovered" gravity
    • TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
      • Moveable Type printing press
      • Sextant
      • Marniers Compass
      • Hartman Astrolabe

11. COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION

    • 3 G's
      • Gold
      • God
      • Glory