What empire had a huge territory that included Anatolia, eastern Europe, much of the Middle East, north African coast, and lands around the Black Sea?
What is the Ottoman Empire?
100
What was the reclamation of Greek Traditions?
What is the European Renaissance?
100
What year was the seizure of Constantinople?
What is 1453?
200
Who followed Muslim practices, but was alos regarded as a magician with an invisibility charm?
Who is Sunni Ali?
200
What empire emerged in Persia from a Sufi religious order and imposed Shia Islam as the official religion of the state?
What is the Safavid empire?
200
What dynasty restablished the civil service examination?
What is the Ming Dynasty?
200
What tear was the founding of the Safavid Empire in Persia?
What is 1501?
200
Islam in Malacca was blended with ______________ traditions.
What is Hindu/Buddhist?
300
Who in 1497-1498 sailed around Africa to India?
Who is Vasco de Gama?
300
What empire rose in West Africa in the 2nd half of the 15th century and became a major center of Islamic learning/trade?
What is the Songhay empire?
300
What year was the founding of the Mughal Empire in India?
What is 1526?
300
The culturally sophisticated capital of Timur's empire was ______________.
What is Samarkand?
400
Who sponsered an 11,000 volume encyclopedia summarizing all the wisdom of the past?-
Who is Emperor Yongle?
400
In the Byzantine Empire, the term _____________ referred to the intimate ties between the Church and the state as exemplified by the authority of the emperor to appoint the patriarch of the Church.
What is "caesaropapism"?
400
Unlike the Chinese voyages, Europeans were seeking what 3 things?
What is wealth, converts, and allies in Crusades against Islam?
500
Who led seven voyages between 1405 and 1433?
Who is Zheng He?
500
Although often little more than a collection of quarreling principalities, the ______________________ emerged out of Otto I of Saxony's efforts to renew Roman rule in the tenth century.
What is the Roman Empire?
500
On orders from the Byzantine emperors, the Eastern Orthodox Church between 726 and 843 C.E. conducted a policy known as _______________ that resulted in the destruction of much-loved religious images.
What is iconoclasm?
500
The Igbo, Yoruba, and Bini peoples represented different types of agricultural societies in __________.