Architecture
China
Europe
The Americas
The World of Islam
100
The name of the palace that was known as the center of the Islamic world.
What is the Topkapi palace?
100
Title of the emperor from the Mandate of Heaven doctrine
What is the Son of Heaven?
100
These types of ideas spread at Coffee houses.
What are Enlightenment ideas?
100
This man led the Spanish into Mesoamerica and met Moctezuma II.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
100
The title of the leaders of the Ottoman empire.
What are sultans?
200
The main plant grown here, and why.
What are oranges, to show the king's power, as oranges could not naturally grow in France?
200
This city was established as a port town during the Qing Dynasty.
What is Canton (Guangzhou)?
200
The influx of silver in Spain caused this.
What is inflation?
200
The causes of the death that Las Casas describes here: "On the Isles of the Lucayos [Bahamas] . . . where there were once above five hundred thousand souls, today there is not a living creature."
What are disease, hard labor, and violence?
200
Ottoman portraits were inspired by this country's art but did not usually take other European inspiration.
What is Italy?
300
This palace was described as "a city within a city"
What is the Forbidden City?
300
These types of books would be bought often as literacy rose, and the prices of books dropped in China.
What are Civil Service Exam prep books?
300
Religious order established during the Counter-Reformation that used meditation as a way to connect to God.
What are the Jesuits?
300
The only livestock that was native to Mesoamerica.
What are llamas?
300
Out of the Mughals, Ottomans, and Safvids, which were the most religiously tolerant?
The Mughals
400
Shah Jahan built this palace out of sandstone.
What is the Red Fort?
400
This dynasty forbid outside trade and travel
What is the Ming dynasty?
400
Name the methods of getting access to salvation.
What are: sacraments, good works, pilgrimages, indulgences?
400
The most common stop in the Americas during the Transatlantic slave trade.
What is Barbados?
400
The name of the trading center in Isfahan.
What is the bazaar?
500
How many trees were used to make a pillar in the Hall of Supreme Harmony?
One tree per pillar
500
About this much of the world's silver ended up in China.
What is half?
500
The Russian monarch that supported the Enlightenment.
Who is Catherine the Great?
500
These wars were named for the decorative outfits that soldiers would wear.
What are the Flowery Wars?
500
Name the three education outcomes of the Ottoman Empire
1. civil and military bureaucratic schools
2. religious elementary schools
3.religious Sufi schools