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He and his sailors crossed the Atlantic Ocean, not knowing where they would land. After his voyage, other Europeans began to explore and settle in America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
The slave trade that took place in the 15th to the 19th century across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is The Atlantic Ocean Trade?
100
The empires in older civilization that areas were able to gain new strength from new technologies in weaponry.
What is the Gunpowder Empire?
100
Founded in Western Anatolia, this empire quickly conquered Constantinople in 1453 and expanded to become one of history's most important and lengthy empires.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
100
This empire began in 1721 and developed into one of the most superior powers of Europe along with extending their territory from East Europe into parts of North America.
What is the Russian Empire?
200
The first tsar of all Russia; during his reign, he acquired vast amounts of land through ruthless means, creating a centrally controlled government.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
200
The process of transporting and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century.
What is The African Slave Trade?
200
A fundamental transformation in scientific ideas across mathematics, physics, astronomy, and biology.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
Of the great Muslim Empires of this period, this empire was by far the largest. The significance was that they incorporated their new Indian territory with the Muslim empires of the Mideast, and those had trade with the Chinese Empire, so trade could flow through all Eurasia, from China, through India to the Mideast to the Mediterranean.
What is the Mughal Empire?
200
This dynasty overthrew the Ming Dynasty after the Ming emperor invited a group of their warriors to help with a peasant uprising but banished the emperor instead.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
300
Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
300
The process of goods (cargo) and people by sea and other waterways. Port operations are a necessary tool to enable maritime trade between trading partners.
What is The Maritime Trade?
300
The period in the history of western thought and culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century, characterized by dramatic revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and ushered in our modern western world.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
Not only did they find the new world (after millions of Native Americans had already found it centuries earlier), but they set up long-term colonies that's impact lasts to this day. Their rule shaped much of the history of Latin America.
What is the Spanish Empire?
300
This dynasty took out the last of the Mongol rulers in China and restored power over the empire. They built up a strong centralized government based on the Confucian principles. By the 16th century, this dynasty was in its decline as the Europeans began to sail towards China.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
400
Regarded as the greatest Ottoman ruler, under his rule, the Ottoman Empire reached the apogee of its military and political power.”
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
400
The trade route from Europe to Africa, Africa to the Americas, and the Americans to Europe.
What is the Great Circuit?
400
A concept that shared authority and Protestant regions were less likely to develop absolute monarchies & tended to form parliamentary governments.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
400
They successfully conquered China to become the last Chinese Dynasty. Although they weren't considered "Chinese" at the time, they quickly merged into Chinese life and were led by some of the greatest emperors in Chinese History.
What is the Manchu Empire?
400
This war devastated the region as well as significantly weakening the role of the Holy Roman Emperors which led to the rise of many nation-states.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
500
Russian tsar who enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.
Who is Peter the Great?
500
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
This empire was part of the second wave of exploration and discovery, becoming the last and eventually largest Maritime empire.
What is the British Empire?
500
This began in 1555 and was intended to bring an end to the conflicts between the Catholics and the Protestants that overthrew the region during the Reformation.
What is the Peace of Augsburg?