Whats the significance? Flashcards
3 city states in present day Mexico: Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tiacopan
Aztec Empire
Ottomans claimed Byzantium, fall of the Byzantine empire, end of the middle ages, ottomans take power
Seizure of Constantinople 1453
Revival at Europe, age of enlightenment European renaissance
European renaissance
Islamic pastoral people at west Africa
Fulbe
Western African group, agricultural, palatine descent, complex society, didn’t have a true government
Igbo
Bureaucratic empire, divine ruler
Inca Empire
Native american contederacy of tribes
Iroquois League
center of spread of islam
Malacca
disrupted by the Mongols and the plague, promoted Confucianism
Ming Dynasty
Islamic Turkic group, practiced Hinduism and were Muslim
Mughal Empire
coyete in fast; a philospher, warrior, architect, poet, and ruler of the city state Texacoco in Mexico
Nezahualcoyotl
isampic empire in europe
Ottoman empire
remaining hunter and gatherers and nomadic people still persist today
Paleolithic persistence
long distance traveling merchants in the aztec empire, small important class
Pochteca
shite muslim dynasty 16th/18th century
Safavid empire
mali trading city
Timbuktu
Turkic warrior, attempted to reform mongols
Timur
formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China’s early Ming dynasty.
Zheng He
Mughal Emperor, 3rd emperor, general success
Akbar
the 6th, widely considered the last effective Mughal emperor, reign lasted 49 years (Muhammad)
Aurangzeb
connection of the world, exchange of crops, people, ideas
columbian exchange
spanish conquistador (1485-1547) who led the expedition that conquered the Aztecs in modern day Mexico
Hernan Cortes
the tribute of boy children that the Ottoman Turks levied from their christian subjects in the Balkans; the Ottomans raised the boys for civil administration or for the elite Janissary infantry corps
Devshirme
Native American slave who served as an indispensible interpreter and strategist for Hernan cortes in his conquest of the Aztecs
Dona Marina
Meaning “mixed” used in the Spanish colonial caste system to describe a person of European and Native American descent
Mestizo
used in the Spanish caste system to describe a person who had been born in Spain as a way for those people to claim superiority over others in the Spanish colonies
Peninsulares
ruling dynasty of china from 1644-1912, the rulers were originally from Manchuria
Qing dynasty
Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than sending a relatively small number of people to govern and exploit the conquered people
settler colonies
a term used in the Spanish colonial caste system system to describe a person of European and African descent
Mulattoes
one of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by Muslim turks who invaded India in 1526, drawing on the mongol heritage, they made efforts to create partnerships between the muslim and hindu population
Mughal empire