unit one Exploration and Conquest

Meso-America
1. Mayan
  1. What happened
    1. warfare
    2. famine
    3. drought
  2. Known for
    1. Calendar
    2. Mathematicians
    3. Writing system
    4. Astronomers
  3. population
    1. 10 million
    2. 40 cities
2. Incan
  1. Agriculture
    1. drainage systems and canals to expand their crop resources.
    2. Potatoes, tomatoes, cotton, peanuts and coca
    3. Llama for meat and transportation.
3. Aztec
  1. population
    1. 5 million
    2. 400-500 city states
    3. farmers and warriors
  2. practices
    1. Trade
    2. Tribute
    3. Human Sacrifice
  3. what happened
    1. warfare
Norse Explorers
1. discovered
  1. Iceland
  2. Greenland
2. people
  1. Eric the red
  2. Lief Eriksson
CHRISTIANITY
1. 30 AD Death of Jesus
2. 325 AD Constantine Nicean Conference
3. 1054 AD Great Schism
4. 1096 AD Crusades Begin
MARCO POLO
1. IBN BATUTA
2. Traveled across the eastern continents
The Silk Road
1. connects roman empire to china
2. used to transport goods by land
CHINESE ZHENG HE
1. Much larger than columbuses ship
RENAISSANCE
1. starts in Italy
2. lots of art
Black Death Bubonic Plague
1. killed one third of Europe population
2. Jews were blamed
Protestant Reformation
1. Martin Luther
  1. 95 thesis
2. led to formation of Protestant churches
3. criticism of Catholic Church impacted the spiritual, social, and cultural spheres of Europe
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 1453-1800
1. Copernicus
  1. Heliocentric universe
2. Kepler
  1. laws of planetary motion
3. Galileo
  1. Father of Physics & Astronomy
4. Bacon
  1. scientific method
    1. Scientific Method Four Steps: Hypothesis, Observation, Verification, Experimentation
5. Newton
  1. "discovered" gravity
6. TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES
  1. Moveable Type printing press
  2. Sextant
  3. Marniers Compass
  4. Hartman Astrolabe
COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
1. 3 G's
  1. Gold
  2. God
  3. Glory

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