Chapter 13 Vocab Flashcards
Fulbe
Largest pastoral society of west Africa
They adopted Islam and took a religious leadership role that led to new states
Firestick farming
The manipulation of the Paleolithic peoples of Australia’s environment which involved burns to clear underbrush
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer whose voyage was the first to reach India by going around the tip of South Africa
Huitzilopochtli
God of Aztec empire associated with the sun
Hundred Years’ War
Major conflict between France and England
Igbo
The people whose lands were east of the Niger River.
Built a complex society
Inca empire
The westerns hemisphere’s largest imperial state of the 15th century
Built by small community of the Inca
Iroquois league of five nations
Confederation of 5 people in modern day New York State
Alliance based on the great law of peace
Malacca
A Muslim port city that became the most prominent on the waterway between Sumatra and Malaya
Mexica
Semi nomadic people of northern Mexico
Established themselves on a small island in lake texcoco where tenochtitlan
Ming dynasty
Chinese dynasty (1368-1644) that won over the yuan dynasty of the Mongols Traditional Chinese ways and restored Chinese land
Mughal empire
Most successful empire in India
Founded by an Islamized Turkic group that invaded India
Aztec empire
Major state that developed into modern day Mexico
Benin
Territorial state emerged in the region that is modern day Nigeria
“Chosen women”
Incas: girls who were removed from their homes at a young age
Trained and produced corn beer and textiles
Nezahualcoyotl
Poet and kind of texcoco
Ottoman Empire
Islamic state centered on Anatolia
Paleolithic persistence
The continuance of gathering and hunting societies in an area
European Renaissance
The “rebirth” of classical learning in Europe
Safavid empire
Turkic empire of Persia founded in the 16th century
Songhai empire
Islamic state of west Africa
Tenochtitlan
Capital of the Aztec empire
Timbuktu
Great city of west Africa
Center of Islamic scholarship
Timur
Turkic warrior who wanted to restore the Mongol empire
Triple alliance
1428 agreement between Mexica and 2 other cities
Launched the Aztec empire
Yongle
Chinese emperor (1402-1422) during the Ming dynasty
Zheng He
Chinese admiral who sent out over 300 ships to explore in 1405
Christopher Columbus
Genoese mariner commissioned by Spain to look for a new trading route to Asia
Seizure of Constantinople
Constantinople fell to the army of the ottoman sultan Mehmed II
