Check Up Questions

                                                            

1. The two events during the middle ages that revived European interest in the Orient were the Crusades and the Renaissance.

2. The invention that brought Europe out of the Dark Ages was the Moveable Type Printing Press. Johann Gutenberg introduced it in about 1440.

                                                           Identify

1. Leif Ericson- A viking from Finland, believed to be the first to discover the New World.

2. Vasco de Gama- From Portugal, in 1498 de Gama sailed all the way around the tip of Africa to India, opening an all-water route to the Orient.