| A | B |
|---|
| monarch | king or queen |
| feudalism | the system of rule by lords who owe loyalty to a monarch |
| manor | includes the lord's castle, peasants, huts, 7 surrounding villages or fields |
| serf | peasants who worked for the lord and could not leave the manor without the lord's permission |
| magnetic compass | a tool that helps ship captains sail a straight course and has a needle in it that always pointed north |
| astrolabe | a tool that made it possible for sailors to determine the positions of the stars & figure out latitude at sea |
| caravel | a type of ship with triangular sails and a steering rudder |
| colony | a group of people who settle in a distant land and are ruled by the government of their native land. |
| middle ages | the period in European history from 500 to 1350 when people thought the world was a disk floating on a great ocean |
| Crusades | religious wars from about 1100 to 1300 |
| renaissance | a French word meaning "rebirth" it lasted from the late 1300's to 1600 |
| Johannes Gutenberg | a German inventor that made the printing press during the mid - 1400's |
| Prince Henry | "the Navigator", founded a school for sailors in the 1400's |
| Bartholomw Dias | 1488, sailed for Portugal; reached the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco Digama | 1498, sailed for Portugal, sailed around the southern tip of Africa & continued onto India |
| Christopher Columbus | 1492; sailed for Spain, King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella agreed to finance a voyage led by Italian explorer Columbus. He planned to reach the Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic |
