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7th grade Mid Term Review

Question	Answer
Bering Land Bridge	A strip of land connecting Alaska with Russia that emerged form underwater around 38,000 BC.
Mansa Musa	Emperor of Mali, made pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324
Askia the Great	Songhai ruler, overthrew Sunni Baru originally named Muhammad Ture, he took the military title Askia
Black Death	A series of plagues that killed about 25 million people in Europe starting in 1347.
Michelangelo	Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet.
Leonardo da Vinci	Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist and inventor
Leif Eriksson	Norwegian explorer, son of Erik the Red, was first European to explore the Americas.
Christopher Columbus	Italian explorer, he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean.
Ferdinand Magellan	Portuguese captain of a Spanish fleet that sought a western route to Asia via the "Southern Ocean"
Colombian Exchange	The transfer of plants, animals, and disease, between the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.
Hernan Cortes	Spanish conquistador, he left Cuba to sail to Mexico and brought about the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Moctezuma II	Ruler of Mexico's Aztec Empire, he welcomed Cortes as a god but was taken prisoner by him.
Protestant Reformation	A religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church.
Spanish Armada	A large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588.
Northwest Passage	A nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
Jacques Cartier	French sailor and explorer, he made three voyages to Canada for Francis.
Jamestown	The first permanent English settlement in North America set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia, named after the English king.
John Smith	An English colonist in the Americas who helped found Jamestown colony and encouraged settlers to work harder and build better housing.
Puritan	A protestant group that wanted to purify or reform the Anglican Church
Pilgrims	A Separatists group that left England in the early 1600's to escape persecutions.

Created by: ShelleyFisher on 2012-12-13

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7th grade Mid Term Review