Asia & Africa in 1500
The king of this empire was so rich that at one point he crashed the Egyptian economy by spending so much gold there that the price of gold collapsed.
What was Mali?
This percentage of Europe's population was killed by the Black Death in the mid-1300s?
What is 33%?
This American empire was not able for its brilliant engineering and architecture, including the construction of thousands of miles of roads in the Andes Mountains.
What was the Inca Empire?
This intellectual movement rejected the idea of absolutism and sought to find the ideal form of human government.
What was the Enlightenment?
The rulers of this empire also claimed the title of "caliph" - leader of the religion of Islam.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
Who was Martin Luther?
These people, whose culture did not include the concept of ownership, were the first Americans encountered by Columbus and his crew in 1492.
Who were the Taino?
This English Enlightenment thinker was the first to put forward the idea of natural rights.
Who was John Locke?
This philosophy fueled the European Renaissance, with its focus on humans and human society, rather than religion and the afterlife.
What was Humanism?
This was the massive transfer of plants, animals, and germs between the Eastern and Western hemispheres after the two worlds came into contact with each other.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
This French Enlightenment thinker emphasized the idea that all citizens should be treated with absolute equality with respect to their rights.
Who was Rousseau?
In 1433, this Chinese dynasty decided to 'close its doors' to contact with foreign societies.
What was the Ming Dynasty?
This painter, sculptor, inventor, and theorist from Milan was the consummate example of Castiglione's "Renaissance Man".
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This brutal system in the Spanish Empire granted nobles ownership of land, and of the people who lived on that land.
What was the Encomienda system?
The representatives of this group from French society rebelled against the unfair voting rules in the Estates General, touching off the French Revolution.
What was the Third Estate?
Before the decision by the Ming government to 'turn inward', this admiral led massive voyages of exploration throughout the Indian Ocean.
Who was Zheng He?
The method of thinking that begins with a question, rather than an answer, fueled this development late in the European Renaissance.
What is the Scientific Method?
Smallpox and other diseases were likely responsible for the deaths of this percentage of the native American population within 100 years of Europeans' arrival.
What was 90%?
After the defeat of Napoleon, this conference of European powers attempted to suppress the ideology of the French Revolution.
What was the Congress of Vienna?