Review for the Chapter 14/15 Test

     All of the information provided here will likely be on the test (my class was told what to expect during the code yellow).

• The Bubonic Plague killed nearly 1/3 of people in Europe. It was brought to the continent by rats coming from Mongol lands. Because of the plague, Europe's population in 1400 was equal to its population in 1200.
• Marco Polo traveled from Venice in 1271 to visited China and Kublai Khan.
• 1492 was a momentous year because of Columbus' voyage to the Americas, Iberia's conquest of Grenada, and the expulsion of Jews and Muslims from Iberia.
• Significant developments were made in this period in ecology (antipollution laws, water mills), politics (expulsion of Jews and Muslims, conquest of Grenada, lands claimed in the New World, the Magna Carta) and in culture (the Renaissance, expanded trade, printing).
• The Latin West borrowed technologies from the east and eventually surpassed it as a trading power. 
• Strong motives and military power contributed to Iberian expansion overseas.
• The voyages to the New World were built on 1) urban trade revivals 2) merchant-ruler alliances 3) struggles with Islam and 4) curiosity.
• The Iberian kingdoms have a special history because of Christian expansion (and thus the expulsion of Muslim invaders) and the dynastic marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella.
• Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese prince who encouraged navigation and seafaring, although he didn't go very far from Portugal himself.
• Portugal's naval supremacy allowed them to gain control over much of the Indian ocean and increase their trading power.

Good luck!