Reconquista
For the better part of 800+ years (until the end of the 1400s), the Iberian peninsula was controlled by caliphates and leaders that were followers of this religion.
What was Islam?
The Ming replaced this Mongol Dynasty.
What was the Yuan Dynasty?
He was the Muslim Ming Admiral that led the 7 different treasure fleet voyages.
Who was Zheng He?
The waterway that is located at the southern tip of Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
This disease ravaged the Ming in the mid 17th century, and would weaken it to open up rebellions and Manchu invasions from the north.
What was the bubonic plague?
Tea originated here.
What was China?
The various Great Walls look like this mythical creature that can is depicted throughout much of China.
What is a dragon?
Typically on the Iberian peninsula these kingdoms were more religiously tolerant.
Who were the Muslim kingdoms?
The first Ming Emperor (named the Hongwu Emperor) was orphaned due to plague and was from this social class.
What was a peasant?
These were the types of extremely large ships designed by Ming shipwrights that Zheng He and his navigators took on their voyages.
What were junks?
Control of this straight that links the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea was extremely valuable to gain tribute.
What is the Straight of Gibraltar?
While the Ming were dealing with this disease, the Manchus delayed their attacks because they were dealing with an outbreak of this deadly disease.
What was smallpox?
What is caffeine?
The "endless walls" aka Great Walls became obsolete in the Qing Dynasty for this reason.
What was the borders of the empire went far beyond the walls?
These people were expelled in the Spanish Reconquista. Many fled (and were welcomed) by the Ottoman Empire.
Who were the Jews?
The Ming were of this majority ethnic Chinese group.
Who were Han Chinese?
After the deaths of Zheng He and the Yongle emperor who supported these voyages, this happened.
What was the Ming authorities ended the voyages and made it illegal to build ships of the size of the Treasure Fleet's junks?
The voyages of the Ming Treasure Fleet of Zheng He made it to this wealthy region to establish trade dominance on the east coast of Africa.
What was the Swahili coast?
Ming subjects that were conscripted to defend the empire were given land in exchange. When this was taken with them, this is what many did.
What was deserted the military?
This country sent an undercover botanist to find out (and smuggle) the secrets and plants to growing tea to India, that they controlled in the 19th century.
Who were the British?
The great walls are deteriorating presently for this reason.
What is the huge amounts of tourists who visit them are wearing them down?
These two kingdoms made a couple of failed attempts to unite through marriage and drive out the Muslims in the south. They succeeded by the late 15th century with the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella.
What were Aragon and Castile?
Like the Mongols, the Ming leaders were supporters of this, which made them rich.
What was trade?
The Ming voyages were about establishing this, not conquering the lands that they visited.
What was trade dominance and collection of tribute?
This is the ocean that the Treasure Fleet would have crossed 7 times.
What was the Indian Ocean?
These could not be collected due to the outbreak of plague, leading to rebellions, and soldiers deserting the Ming military because the dynasty couldn't pay them.
What were taxes?
This valuable and beautiful type of Chinese pottery was often used to consume tea in its cups.
What is porcelain?
The Ming brought back the civil service exams that determine if scholars fully know and can interpret the teachings of this ancient Chinese philosophy.
What is Confucianism?
Mythologizing the Spanish Reconquista has led to a false narrative that pits these two religions as "forever enemies", even though alliances shifted among kingdoms of the same religious leaders and those of different leaders.
Who were the Christian (Roman Catholic) and Muslim leaders?
These commodities were extremely valuable to the Ming - and to those to their west who desperately wanted them. (3)
What were silk, tea and porcelain?
The fact that Zheng He was a Muslim was important to his voyages for this reason.
What was that many of the places where they travelled were populated by Muslims and that facilitated understand of one another's culture and business practices?
The great walls of China are located in this region of China.
What is the northern region?
This dynasty would end the Ming, and were from northern invaders.
Who were the Qing?
The British illegally imported this drug into China to try to gain trade advantages for tea in the 19th century.
What was opium?
True or False - the great walls of China are visible from space.
What is false?