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Mesoamerican Civilizations
The Ming Dynasty
The Ottoman Empire
Age of Exploration
The Age of Absolutism
100
Hernan Cortes conquered this civilization in 1521
What is the Aztec Civilization?
100
Location of the Ming Dynasty
What is China?
100
Key trade city taken over by the Ottomans and renamed Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
100
Term meaning the global transfer of goods, plants, animals, ideas, and disease between the eastern and western hemispheres.
What is the Colombian exchange?
100
The Glorious Revolution, Magna Carta, and English Bill of rights did this to the Monarchy in England.
What is Limit it?
200
This disease was responsible for wiping out large numbers of Aztec and Inca people.
What is small pox?
200
Famous admiral who made sea voyages for the Ming to promote trade and collect tribute.
Who is Zheng He
200
Main religion of the Ottomans.
What is Islam?
200
Term referring to the forced voyage of Africans to the Americas across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
Which French sun king is responsible for the statement "I am the State" as well as the creation of the Palace of Versailles?
Louis XIV
300
The Inca practiced this form of farming to adapt to their physical environment in the Andes Mountains.
What is terrace farming?
300
The Ming practiced this form of foreign policy, or cutting themselves off from foreign influence.
What is isolationism?
300
The Ottomans controlled the trade routes between the Black Sea, and this other sea.
What is the Mediterranean?
300
Economic theory that developed in the 17th century supporting colonialism.
What is mercantilism?
300
Who was the Russian Czar accredited with westernizing Russia?
Peter the Great
400
This individual was responsible for conquering the Inca.
Who is Francisco Pizzaro?
400
Reason why the Ming stopped investing in foreign trade/explorations.
What is there was little value to them. They felt their goods were superior to those of the west.
400
Why is the Ottoman take over of Constantinople a turning point in world history?
It caused Europeans to seek alternate trade routes to Asia, leading to the exploration of the Americas.
400
Social structure enforced by the Spanish in Latin America.
What is the encomienda system?
400
What was the goal of Absolute monarchs in the 17th century?
To centralize government power
500
The name given to the Aztec's floating gardens.
What is chinampas?
500
Profitable product the Ming possessed that Europe wanted.
What is silk?
500
The Ottomans occupied land on these three continents.
What is Asia, Europe, and Africa?
500
Name two advances that aided the Age of Exploration
The astrolabe, caravel, cartography, compass, etc.
500
Idea that a monarch had been given the power to rule by God.
What is divine right?