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100
Who sponsored an 11,000 volume encyclopedia summarizing all the wisdom of the past? (Page 567)
Who is Emperor Yongle?
100
What empire was largely the work of the Mexica people, a semi-nomadic group from northern Mexico who had migrated southward? (Page 580)
What is the Aztec Empire?
100
When was the founding of the Safavid Empire? (Page 561)
What is 1501?
100
What was the reclamation of Greek Traditions? (Page 569)
What is the European Renaissance?
100
___________ had become fully agricultural (maize and beans) by around 1300. (Page 564)
What is the Iroquois?
200
Who led seven voyages between 1405 and 1433? (Page 572)
Who is Zheng He?
200
What empire had a huge territory that included Anatolia, Eastern Europe, much of the Middle East, Northern African coast, and lands around the Black Sea? (Page 576)
What is the Ottoman Empire?
200
When was the founding of the Mughal Empire? (Page 561)
What is 1526?
200
Who are the people East of the Niger River in the heavily forested region of West Africa? (Page 563)
What is the Igbo?
200
The _______ were at the center of a wave of religiously based uprisings, or jihads, which greatly expanded the practice of Islam and gave rise to a series of new states. (Page 566)
What is Fulbe?
300
Who followed Muslim practices, but was also regarded as a magician with an invisibility charm? (Page 579)
Who is Sunni Ali?
300
This empire was a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people who was building the Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state along the entire spine of the Andes Mountains. (Page 584)
What is the Inca Empire?
300
What major event happened in 1398? (Page 562)
What is Timur's invasion of India?
300
What is a pattern of deliberately set fires? (Page 561)
What is firestick farming?
300
What dynasty reestablished the civil service examination? (Page 566)
What is the Ming Dynasty?
400
Turkic warrior who tried to restore the Mongol Empire ca. 1400. (Page 565)
Who is Timur (Tamerlane)?
400
What empire emerged in Persia from a Sufi religious order and imposed Shia Islam as the official religion of the state? (Page 577)
What is the Safavid Empire?
400
What major event happened in 1529?
What is Ottoman siege of Vienna?
400
The rise of _______ became a major Muslim port city in the fifteenth century. It also blended with Hindu/Buddhist traditions and was a center for Islamic learning. (Page 580)
What is Malacca?
400
Unlike the Chinese voyages, Europeans were seeking what three things? (Page 575)
What is wealth, converts, and allies in Crusades against Islam?
500
The fifteenth century included bands of hunters and gatherers and villages of agricultural peoples. Besides a period of substantial areas of the world still hosted gathering and hunting societies known as ____________ peoples. (Page 560)
What is Patheolithic?
500
What empire rose in West Africa in the second half of the 15th century and became a major center of Islamic learning/trade? (Page 578)
What is the Songhay Empire?
500
What major event happened in 1453? (Page 561)
What is the Ottoman seizure of Constantinople?
500
What was the center of an oceanic trading network? (Page 587)
What is Yap?
500
This empire was created by Turkic group that invaded India in 1526 and gained control of most of India over the 16th century (Page 579)
What is the Mughal Empire?