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AfricaIslamic Empires
Ming/QingThe Americas
Renaissance/Reformation/ Exploration
Absolutism / Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment / Revolutions
This man took control of Timbuktu from the Mali Empire, and expanded the
Songhai Empire
Sunni Ali
This empire was inspired by its status as an “Islamic outpost on the
edge of the Christian World”
Ottoman Empire
This Mughal Emperor built the Taj Mahal to honor his deceased wife
Shah Jahan
These were devout Muslim religious warriors
Ghazi
Stressed that Jesus Christ was a black man
Dona Beatriz
The Ming dynasty was founded by…?
Hongwu
What was Matteo Ricci’s role in China?
Jesuit missionary
Large agricultural society located in present-day Mexico
Aztec
These were the only individuals allowed into the Forbidden City
aside from the emperor
Eunichs
This ruler moved the capital to Beijing, and built the Forbidden
Palace
Yongle
Martin Luther’s biggest problem with the Catholic Church was the
selling of these.
Indulgences
This man broke away from the Catholic Church in order to grant
himself a divorce
Henry VIII
Known as the “Father of Humanism”
Petrarch
This organization was convened in 1545 in order to look at ways to reform the Catholic Church; it
didn’t.
Council of Trent
Name given for the passing of goods, ideas, people, and services
across the Atlantic between Europe and America
Columbian Exchange
Supported an economic system driven by “laissez-faire” markets
Adam Smith
Known as the “architect of absolutism”
Cardinal Richelieu
Two Part Question:Monarchs after the Glorious Revolution and they
inherited this type of government
William and Mary/Constitutional Monarchy
Proved Copernicus correct using mathematics
Johann Kepler
Monarch who lost his head over the English Civil War and the self-prescribed dictator who failed
England
Charles I/Cromwell
This was essentially an angry letter to King George, demanding
independence
Declaration of Independence
Most enlightenment thinkers believed in this notion, essentially that society will
continue to get better
Theory of Progress
Tabula Rasa means…
Blank (or clean) slate
Frenchmen who believed in mathematical reasoning to
explain world and proclaimedI think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes
Two competing political parties during the
French Revolution
Jacobins and Girondins