History 8 - Topic 1 - Lessons 3-4

an area settled and ruled by the government of a distant land

• colony

• turning point

• circumnavigate

• Columbian Exchange

a moment in history that marks a decisive change

• colony

• turning point

• circumnavigate

• Columbian Exchange

a biological and cultural exchange of animals, plants, human populations, diseases, food, government, technology, the arts, and languages

• colony

• turning point

• Columbian Exchange

• modifications

a word that means changes

• colony

• turning point

• Columbian Exchange

• modifications

a system of rule by lords who ruled their lands but owed loyalty and military service to a monarch

• feudalism

• Crusades

• Renaissance

• kinship

this includes the lord's castle and all of the lands around it

• feudalism

• manor

• kindship

• astrolabe

a series of wars fought by Christians to control the region then known as the Holy Land or Palestine

• Feudalism

• the Renaissance

• the Crusades

• the Caravan

a new method or idea

• kinship

• turning point

• feudalism

• innovation

an instrument which helped sailors determine their latitude while at sea and allowed European sailors to sail far out to sea, beyond sight of land

• caravels

• magnetic compass

• astrolabe

• rudder

Muslims are

• followers of Islam.

• followers of Jesus.

• early Native American people.

• people who crossed the land bridge to the Americas.