Dar-al-Islam
Name for the holy book in Islam?
Quran (Koran)
Period of peace and stability in the Mongol empire that boosted trade along the Silk Routes?
Pax Mongolica
Name for type of empire built by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean basin?
Trading Post Empire
He famously posted the 95 Theses to the door of the Cathedral in Wittenberg, which allegedly launched the Protestant Reformation?
Martin Luther
He took control of the French Revolution via a Coup d'etat in 1799?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Home to the House of Wisdom?
Baghdad
Ghengis Khan
Name for a new business enterprise that engaged in global trading by raising private capital?
Joint Stock Company
This is the name for the Catholic Church's practice of selling positions within the Church bureaucracy?
Simony
He is considered the leader of Haiti's slave rebellion?
Toussaint L'ouverture
Name for the center of science and learning in the Abbasid Caliphate?
House of Wisdom
His travel journals are a great source for our understanding of the Yuan Dynasty (Mongol rule in China)?
Marco Polo
Name for economic ideology that prioritized exports over imports? This ideology drove Spain and other European countries to establish colonies in the Americas and elsewhere.
Mercantilism
This city is often considered the "Cradle of the Renaissance" because of its patronage of the arts, wealth, and cultural influence?
The Third Estate created this "government" following their exit from the Estates General?
National Assembly
Name for the collected stories about the prophet Muhammed, compiled after his death?
Hadith
Name for the relay system used for communication in the Mongol Empire
Yam
This 1494 treaty divided the world between the Spanish and the Portuguese? It was endorsed by the Pope.
Treaty of Tordesillas
He wrote "The Prince," a classic Renaissance text that introduced the notion of "political science." He argues that rulers need to use cruelty and deception in order to maintain power.
Machiavelli
This Enlightenment philosophe is most connected to the ideas of natural rights and sovereignty that helped lead to the North American and French revolutions?
John Locke (also Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Name for the Moorish palace in Granada Spain, an Muslim stronghold on the Iberian Peninsula?
Alhambra
Name three of the four Khanates
Yuan, Golden Horde (Russia), Il-Khanate (Persia), Chagatai
Transfer of plants, animals, ideas, diseases, etc. between the Old World and New World?
Columbian Exchange
This Central European territory/empire was the main area of the early Protestant Reformation?
Holy Roman Empire
This social class of people led the Latin American Revolution? Simon Bolivar was their leader.
Creoles