The Black Death
This bacterium was responsible for the devastating pandemic that swept across trade routes in the 14th century.
What is Yersinia pestis?
This Ming emperor (r. 1402-1424) sponsored massive maritime expeditions and moved the capital to Beijing.
Who is Emperor Yongle?
This cultural movement celebrated classical Greco-Roman traditions and emphasized individualism, beginning in Italian commercial cities around 1350-1500.
What is the Renaissance?
This empire lasted from the 14th to early 20th century and was created by Turkic warrior groups who migrated into Anatolia.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This empire was largely the work of the Mexica people, who established themselves on an island in Lake Texcoco by 1325.
What is the Aztec Empire?
The plague was carried by these animals and transmitted to humans by fleas, causing swelling of lymph nodes, headaches, and internal bleeding.
What are rats?
These massive maritime expeditions, led by a Muslim eunuch, sought to enroll distant peoples in China's tribute system and visited Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa.
What are Zheng He's voyages (or expeditions)?
"The Prince," by Niccolo Machiavelli, was a controversial work filled with ruthless political advice including the observation that "the ends justify the means." It could be considered a representative work of the Renaissance because rather than focus on how a leader SHOULD behave, according to religious morals, it focused on________.
This empire had a large non-Muslim population within its borders and expanded the frontiers of Islam in Africa.
What is the Songhay Empire?
This Aztec capital city was a metropolis of 150,000-200,000 people, featuring canals, causeways, bridges, and "floating gardens."
What is Tenochtitlan?
In Europe, this percentage of the population probably perished during the initial outbreak, leading to labor shortages and social upheaval.
What is 50%?
After 1433, Chinese authorities abruptly ended their maritime expeditions, allowing their enormous fleets to deteriorate in port for this reason related to their view of China's place in the world.
What is the belief that China was the self-sufficient "middle kingdom"?
This female writer (1363-1430) challenged negative views of women in her work "City of Ladies," arguing that women deserved education equal to men.
The Mughal Empire brought just about all of the Indian subcontinent under one rule, and promoted religiously inclusive policies which encouraged __________ and _______ to coexist peacefully.
What are Hindus and Muslims?
As evidence of the highly organized and bureacratic state in the Inca Empire, births, deaths, and marriages, and other data were recorded on these.
What is a quipu?
The plague disrupted this overland trade network that had been critical to the Afro-Eurasian world economy, providing incentives for Europeans to take to the seas.
What is the Silk Road (or Central Asian trade routes)?
This was a feature of a highly centralized government system that was reestablished under the Ming dynasty, with power concentrated in the emperor's hands, and a way of selecting bureaucrats.
What is the civil service examination system?
Europe's fragmented political system of competing states drove rulers to seek new sources of wealth and power, leading to this phenomenon that began in the late 15th century:
What is European maritime voyages?
The origins of the predominance of Shiite Islam in Iran today can be traced back to the___________.
What is the Safavid Empire?
Both Aztec and Inca societies practiced this gender system where women and men operated in separate but equivalent spheres, each enjoying autonomy.
What is gender parallelism?
This 14th-century Egyptian historian, who lost both his parents to the plague, wrote about it in apocalyptic terms, saying civilization had been "visited by a destructive plague."
Who is Ibn Khaldun?
This massive imperial project, commissioned by Emperor Yongle, compiled contributions from over 2,000 scholars and sought to summarize all previous writing on history, geography, philosophy, and government.
What is the Encyclopedia (or Imperial Encyclopedia)?
Some Renaissance artists looked to the ______ for standards of excellence and sophistication, while their works became more naturalistic in portraying the human body compared to medieval art.
What is the Islamic world?
The rise of this strategic port city on the waterway between Sumatra and Malaya became a major Muslim trading center and springboard for Islam's spread throughout Southeast Asia.
What is Malaka?
The Inca incorporated conquered peoples into their empires by "resettling" them into new locations and by requiring them to send their sons to the city of______to learn to speak_________.
What Cuzco and what is Quechua?