Vocabulary
A soldier in the Ottoman Empire, taken from a Christian family.
What is a janissary?
What is growth?
The official religion of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Islam?
The center of European trade in the 16th century.
What is Venice?
A Portuguese and Spanish ship, small but with room for cargo and cannons.
Ming China saw unification and diversification of religion due to this kind of people.
What are village elders?
The capital of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Istanbul?
The reason Europeans wanted to find quicker ways to Europe.
What are Asian products?
A period of change in art and philosophy, as Greek and Roman traditions were brought back into popularity.
What is the Renaissance?
A Chinese ship, fast and good for transporting wares.
This city became the capital of China in 1421.
What is Beijing?
The tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, who took the throne in 1522, and orchestrated the Siege of Vienna in 1529.
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
The European states that took power in Asian trade after Portugal's decline.
What are Spain and the Netherlands?
The Macedonian king who conquered many new territories, naming many after himself.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The study of maps and mapmaking.
What is cartography?
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
The system of government used by the Ottoman Empire to keep things efficient.
What is a bureaucracy?
The Portuguese conquered this city in order to secure trade in Malaysia.
What is Malacca?
The king of Mali, sometimes considered to be one of the wealthiest men in all of history, who made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
An astrological device, used for calculating latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
An admiral, explorer, trader, and diplomat, raised in a poor Muslim family, and responsible for making China a superpower in the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
The former capital of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
A Portuguese prince, obsessed with the legend of Prester John, who encouraged exploration of Asia and trade routes.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Raiders from Scandinavia who pillaged much of the British Isles between the 8th and 11th centuries.
What are Vikings?