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This Genoese sailor went on 4 transatlantic expeditions between 1492 and 1504.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The largest territorial empire in the Americas at the time of conquest.
What is the Inca empire?
A 16th century process that gave us Lutheranism and Calvinism.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
A plague that killed perhaps 50 million people in the 14th century.
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
The capital of the Aztec empire.
What is Tenochtitlan?
He led the expedition that conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521.
Who is Hernan Cortés?
This Islamic empire controlled much of the eastern Mediterranean region until the early 1900s.
What is the Ottoman empire?
What is the Renaissance?
An outbreak of this disease helped the Spanish conquer the Aztecs.
What is smallpox?
This city, now called Istanbul, fell to the Ottomans in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
He was the first European to reach Asia by sea
Vasco da Gama
This Asian dynasty oversaw the construction of some of the most important sections of the Great Wall of China.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
What is Confucianism?
A term used to describe a common Native American food system that includes corn, beans, and squash.
What are the three sisters?
An African city that was a center of Islamic scholarship in the early modern period.
What is Timbuktu?
This empire in west Africa derived much of its economic power from controlling trans-Saharan trade routes.
What is the Songhai Empire?
A 15th century technology that enabled the spread of ideas and helped advance the Protestant Reformation
What is the printing press?
A military technology that helped Islamic empires consolidate power.
What is gunpowder?
A lake in central Mexico that surrounded the Aztec capital.
What is Lake Texcoco?
He founded the Islamic empire in what is today India in the early 1500s.
Who is Babur?
This Islamic empire in present-day Iran practiced Shia Islam.
What is the Safavid empire?
An Incan technology that allowed for the recording of information
What is a quipu?
A global cooling period that lasted from about 1300 to 1850.
What is the Little Ice Age?
This fortification was built in China to fend off invaders from the north.
What is the Great Wall of China?