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The fall of this empire in 1453 signaled the rise of the Ottoman Empire
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This European empire controlled the majority of North, Central, and South America, as well as some possessions in Southeast Asia
What is Spain?
This Gunpowder Empire controlled portions of North Africa, Eastern Europe, Anatolia, and the Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This sea-based empire was the only country allowed to trade with the Japanese during the isolationist period from the 1600s-1850.
Who were the Netherlands/Dutch?
This African kingdom, led by Alfonso I, suffered greatly as a result of the slave trade.
What is Kongo?
The decline of this major trade network can be attributed to the rise in sea-based trade.
What is the Silk Road?
The production of this crop in the Western Hemisphere led to a massive increase in the need for African slave.
What is sugar?
The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This South American silver mine helped make the Spanish peso a common form of global currency.
What is the Potosi Silver Mine?
The journey of African slaves across the Atlantic to the New World is known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
This English king broke away from the Catholic Church and started the Church of England, with him at the top, when the pope refused to grant him a divorce.
Who is Henry VIII?
This French King, who called himself the “Sun King”, is an excellent example of an absolute monarch.
Who is Louis XIV?
This Ottoman ruler extended the empire to its greatest extent but was defeated in Vienna, effectively ending his campaign to conquer Europe. His brain was the largest in history. ;)
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
This Chinese admiral led a series of seven voyages to display Chinese superiority throughout the Indian Ocean.
Who was Zheng He?
This royal family took over the Russian throne after the Time of Troubles, continuing to rule until 1917.
Who were the Romanovs?
This tax system was used to collect young Christian boys from within the Ottoman Empire, convert them to Islam, and use them as soldiers.
What is devshirme?
This religion emerged in India during the reign of the Mughal Empire and was a blend of Hinduism and Islam.
What is Sikhism?
This was the term given to non- Muslim communities in the Ottoman empire who were allowed to practice their traditions and customs while paying an additional tax to the empire.
What is a millet?
This religious group was known for their deep knowledge of Christianity and an attitude of acceptance of the practices of people they were trying to convert, like ancestor veneration in China.
Who were the Jesuits?
This branch of Islam was used as a unifying force by the Safavid Empire, preaching the return of the Hidden Imam.
What is Twelver Shi’ism?
These people were put in place by the monarch of Spain to rule over American colonies.
Who were viceroys?
The selling of these, which allowed one to basically buy their way out of punishment for their sins, was a primary concern of Martin Luther.
What are indulgences?
This treaty established a Line of Demarcation, drawn by the pope, that effectively divided trade between the Spanish in the West and the Portuguese in the East.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This branch of mystical Islam was known for their “whirling dervish” style and the veneration of saints.
Who are Sufis?
This religious belief views God as a “watchmaker,” and was the primary religious ideology of Scientific and Enlightenment thinkers in Europe.
What is Deism?