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This is Portugal's colony in the New World
What is Brazil?
It was the last native-Chinese ruled dynasty.
What was the Ming Dynasty?
This family came to power in Russia after Ivan the Terrible killed his only son and successor, and then died.
Hint; Pooka.
What is the Romanov Dynasty
The year the Spanish did both of these is, 1492.
In which year did the Spanish Crown sponsor Columbus' expedition that "found" the New world AND expel the Jewish from Spain?
This Spanish system of land grants allowed colonists in the Americas to force labor from indigenous populations and resembled European feudalism.
What was the encomienda system?
A continent that, even with the exportation of millions of slaves from their West Coast in the Atlantic Slave trade, had population growth because of the Colombian Exchange.
What is Africa?
An Islamic empire that allowed for some religious diversity as long as non-Muslims paid the jizya.
After conquering Constantinople, and renaming it Istanbul, they controlled portions of land in all of Afro-Eurasia.
Who were the Ottomans?
He is one of the original "heretics" who sparked the Protestant Reformation after nailing his "99 Thesis" to the church door.
Who is Martin Luther?
Two Gunpowder empires whose conflict during this period originates from Islamic religious differences between the Sunni and the Shi'a.
Who are the Ottoman and Safavid empires?
A type of sail that originated with Arab-traders the Caravel, Carrack and Fluyt all utilized to increase their trading ability.
what is the Lateen Sail ?
European attempts to access this ultimately result in mass exploration and colonization.
What are Asian trade routes?
This empire only fell to Pizzaro after Civil War, internal conflict and the decimation of a large portion of their population from European diseases like smallpox and influenza.
What is the Inca Empire?
In addition to sponsoring Christopher Columbus' expedition they also expelled the Jewish from Spain in 1492
Who are King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
Series of treaties in 1648 that ended the Thirty Years' War and laid the basis for the modern state system.
What is the Peace of Westphalia?
The disease the Columbus and his sailors brought back to Europe.
What is syphilis?
The establishment of this British settlement predates the Dutch purchase of New Amsterdam by over 2 years.
What is Jamestown?
These two empires were able to expand so much due to Joint-Stock companies financially supporting exploration.
Who are the Dutch and English?
Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu?
At the start of this century Japan closes itself off from most of the world.
What is the 17th century (1600s)?
Technology developed by the Chinese, that traveled along the Silk Roads and gave three Islamic Empires their ability to expand (and a part of their nickname).
What is gunpowder?
The fictional route through/around North America leading to East Asia that Europeans led expeditions to find.
Unsuccessful expeditions include, John Cabot (English), Henry Hudson (Dutch), Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier (French).
What is the North West passage?
The empire that Queen Nzinga defeated in 1647 by allying with the Dutch after they violate their alliance with her kingdom.
Who are the Portuguese?
He is one of the longest ruling emperors in Chinese history, who oversaw an increase of stability and expansion of the Qing Dynasty as he incorporated Taiwan, Mongolia and Central Asia into the Chinese empire. His portraits are an example of using art to legitimize power.
Who is Emperor Kangxi?
a series of conflicts from 1728-1740 occurring in the Caribbean and former Spanish territories (mainly Jamaica) by enslaved people to gain freedom.
What were the Maroon Wars?
This was built as a tomb for Shah Jahan's wife and an architectural display to legitimize his power.
What is the Taj Mahal?