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He spread a new law code across Europe in the name of revolution, then crowned himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
In 1453, Ottoman cannons broke the walls of this Byzantine capital, which became Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
In the 1340s, this plague killed roughly a third of the population of Europe and much of Southwest Asia.
What is the Black Death?
This term describes the transfer of crops, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This was the name for the brutal voyage that carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Between 1405 and 1433, this Ming admiral led huge fleets across the Indian Ocean to the coast of East Africa until the Emperors stopped financing these operations.
Who is Zheng He?
Enslaved people in this French Caribbean sugar colony rose up and founded the independent nation of Haiti in 1804.
What is Saint-Domingue?
Name given to the system which forced about 12 million Africans across the ocean between 1500 and 1850.
What is the Atlantic slave trade?
Meaning 'rebirth,' this term describes the revival of classical learning and art in Italian cities.
What is the Renaissance?
Founded by Osman around 1300, this Turkish state grew to rule the Balkans, Anatolia, and much of the Arab world.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This Nahua state had long resisted the Aztecs. Its people allied with the Spanish in the attack on Tenochtitlan.
Who are the Tlaxcalans (Tlaxcala)?
This network of routes carried paper, Buddhism, gunpowder, and eventually plague across Eurasia.
What are the Silk Roads?
A movement whose thinkers praised reason, liberty, and equality, yet many of them accepted slavery and empire.
What is the Enlightenment?
This economic belief held that wealth comes from trade and that the world's total trade is limited, so one country's gain is another's loss.
What is mercantilism?
These large farms in the Caribbean and Brazil grew sugar using the forced labor of enslaved Africans.
What are plantations (sugar plantations)?
This Mughal emperor invited Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Zoroastrians, and Christians to debate in his House of Worship.
Who is Akbar?
This 'silver mountain' in the Andes supplied much of the silver that flowed into the world economy.
What is Potosí?
In 1258, Mongol armies captured and destroyed this Abbasid capital, ending the caliphate there.
What is the Mongol sack of Baghdad?
Businesses like the Dutch East India Company sold shares to many investors so they could share the risks and profits of long-distance trade.
What is a joint-stock company?
Built on an island in Lake Texcoco, this Mexica capital was larger than most European cities in 1519.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Born Temujin, he is remembered for terrifying conquests, but his empire also protected merchants and travellers and helped integrate distant parts of Afro-Eurasia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Tokugawa shoguns ruled Japan from this city, which later became Tokyo.
What is Edo?
Beginning in 1789, royal debt, food shortages, and new ideas about rights led people in France to overthrow the monarchy.
What is the French Revolution?
This Arabic term, meaning 'the house of Islam,' refers to the lands where Muslim rulers governed and Islamic law was practiced.
What is Dar al-Islam?
In 1324, this ruler of Mali traveled to Mecca with so much gold that it lowered its value in Cairo.
Who is Mansa Musa?