The Great Wall of China did not keep this empire from invading China.
What is the Mongol Empire?
100
This empire conquered Constantinople for its access to trade.
What is the Ottoman Empire (Mehmed II)?
100
Hernando Cortes conquered this empire with very few men.
What is the Aztec Empire?
100
This movement which started in Italy was a rebirth of art and learning.
What is the Renaissance?
100
King Louis XIV, or the Sun King as he was known, is famous for saying this.
What is "I am the state?"
200
312 C.E. is the year that this emperor converted to Christianity, allowing Christianity to spread.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
200
Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in memory of his late wife. He was the leader of this empire.
What is the Mughal Empire?
200
Colonies are necessary to practice this economic policy.
What is mercantilism?
200
During the Renaissance, humanists focused on this.
What is human potential?
200
The social contract describes the ideal government-citizen relationship and was thought of by this philosophe.
Who is John Locke?
300
Filial piety is one of the characteristics of this religion.
What is Confucianism?
300
Incompetent leadership has led to the decline of many empires. Name one.
What is the Ottoman or Safavid Empire?
300
Africans had immunities to many diseases, which is why Europeans saw them as a better source of labor than this group.
What is American Indians?
300
Martin Luther took a stand against the Catholic Church because he believed this practice was wrong.
What is selling indulgences?
300
Both of these periods in history led to a new questioning attitude and spirit.
What is the Renaissance and the Enlightenment?
400
This Chinese explorer reached East Africa before Vasco de Gama.
Who is Zheng He?
400
Seppuku, or ritual suicide, is committed by these warriors if they violate bushido, their code of honor.
Who are samurai?
400
European diseases killed this percentage of the Amerindian population.
What is 90%?
400
European merchants supported the Protestant Reformation for this reason.
What is they resented having to pay taxes to the Catholic Church?
400
This Enlightenment thinker said "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it," in support of free speech.
Who is Voltaire?
500
This path increased cultural diffusion between Asia and Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
500
Suleyman supported reforms in this area.
What is the government/laws?
500
Diseases, livestock, corn, coffee, gold, and tobacco were just a few of the items involved in this swap between Europeans and Amerindians.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
People skilled in a variety of fields are still known as this today.
What is a renaissance man?
500
This theory of the universe challenged the geocentric theory of the universe and landed Galileo in hot water with the Catholic Church.