Chapter 11

Question 1

System in the Ottoman Empire in which a number of young boys were surrendered to the Sultan annually

Answer 1

Devshirme

Question 2

Chief ministers of the sultan

Answer 2

Vizirs

Question 3

Soldiers who made up the elite infantry core of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 3

Janissaries

Question 4

Rulers of Holy Roman Empire

Answer 4

Habsburg

Question 5

Name given to Christian crusades by Spain

Answer 5

Riconquista

Question 6

Special church court that could use torture to get heretics out of Spain

Answer 6

Spanish Inquisition

Question 7

Jews and Muslims who have recently converted to Christianity

Answer 7

Conversoes

Question 8

Painted The Last Supper

Answer 8

Leonardo DeVinci

Question 9

Sculpted the statue of David

Answer 9

Michelangelo

Question 10

Wrote The Prince

Answer 10

Niccolo Machiavelli

Question 11

Europeans who walked the countryside in bands whipping themselves to do penets for the sins that led to the plague

Answer 11

Flagellants

Question 12

Great epidemic of the bubonic plague that traveled Europe, East Asia, and North Africa in the fourteenth century., killing large numbers including perhaps as many as one third of the European population.

Answer 12

Black Death

Question 13

Hereditary ruling family passed control from one generation to the next

Answer 13

Dynasty

Question 14

The Renaissance aspiration to know more about the human experience beyond what the Christian scriptures offered by reaching back into Ancient Greek and roman texts.

Answer 14

Humanism

Question 15

Tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church that enforced religious orthodoxy during the Protestant reformation.

Answer 15

Inquisition

Question 16

Political system in which one individual holds supreme power and passes that power on to her or her next kin

Answer 16

Monarchy

Question 17

Rulers of Anatolia, the Arab world, and much of southern and Eastern Europe in the early sixteenth century

Answer 17

Ottoman Empire

Question 18

They transformed themselves from nomadic warrior bands who roamed the borderlands between Islamic and Christian worlds in Anatolia into a sovereigns of vast, bureaucratic empire.

Answer 18

Ottoman Empire

Question 19

Embarrassed a Sunni view of Islam

Answer 19

Ottoman Empire

Question 20

They adapted traditional Byzantine governmental practices but tried new ways of integrating the diverse peoples of their empire

Answer 20

Ottoman Empire

Question 21

Diverse religious movement in China during the fourteenth century that spread the belief that the world was drawing to an end and Mongol rule was collapsing

Answer 21

Red Turban movement

Question 22

Term meaning “rebirth” that historians use to characterize the expanded cultural production of European nations between 1430-1550.

Answer 22

Renaissance

Question 23

Emphasized a break from the church centered medieval world and a new concept of humankind as the center of the world

Answer 23

Renaissance

Question 24

Political headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, located in Istanbul

Answer 24

Topkapi Palace

Question 25

Ming naval leader who established tributary relations with Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean ports, the Persian gulf, and the east coast of Africa

Answer 25

Zheng He