World History Ch. 14

Food product originally from New Guinea. Europeans transferred it to Atlantic and Americas.

A pieces of land given to vassals by their lord is a...

Mughal emperor in India- under whom the empire reached its greatest extent. 

1485-1547, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico.

The metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used is known as...

Established by Dutch East India Company and soon replaced Portugal as leader in Spice Islands.

Term meaning 'arrangement for deferred payment for goods and services'.

Term for a farm crop grown to be sold or traded rather than used by the farm family.

Global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas. 

An area northeast of the Great Wall that conquered China and ruled during the Qing Dynasty.

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their  power by obtaining bullion.

A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation.  It checked the authority of kings.

Portuguese prince responsible for  series of expeditions along African coast in 15th century.

Bustling trade empire built throughout the Indian Ocean. Seized the Strait of Malacca .

A program that required non-Russians to speak only Russian, offered education in Russian.

Assumption of the superiority of the social or cultural group that a person belongs to is...

Killed around 90% of native Americans. Caused by diseases brought over by Europeans .

1400s-1900s. Territories and colonies in Europe, Africa, and Asia controlled from Spain.

Major cultural movement in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.

The buying and selling of goods is known as...

Ottoman Empire, Christian boys captured and turned into slave soldiers of the sultan called...

Woman who ruled over Russia. Responsible for many changes in Russia, securing a warm water port

The Europeans referred to the Native Americans at the bottom of the new social structures as...

The period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance, known as the...

The sun never sets on the....

American born descendants of Europeans.

Chinese explorer: sailed along most of the Asia, Japan, and half way down east coast of Africa.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church is the...

A term for the Americas (and sometimes other non-European areas) during the Age of Exploration.

Ottoman policy of taking boys from Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers.

Bands of Russian warriors consisting of peasants who had escaped serfdom.

A large peninsula in southeastern Europe that was conquered by the Ottoman Turks post-1453.

Capital of the Ottoman Empire; named this after 1453 and the sack of Constantinople.

Empire control in Canada, Ohio, and Mississippi River Valley with Louisiana. Fur trade. 

Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. Removed tax on non-Muslims.

Term meaning 'spanning or crossing a continent'.

A Muslim empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300's to 1922.

 The last imperial dynasty of China, overthrown by revolutionaries, began isolation from West

A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller is a...

Term meaning 'to sail completely around the world'.

What are you most looking forward to over break?

Mid-fourteenth century disease epidemic that ravaged Europe and caused an economic decline.

Military bases on the Silk Road to protect travelers on their journey were known as...

Central American empire founded by Mexica, expanded greatly during the fifteenth century.

The regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas.

In 1054, the Christian Church underwent a...

Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising control over most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries.

(1500-1800) The empire stretched from E. Europe to Siberia. Ivan III overthrew the Mongols

Aztec ruler from 1502 to 1520; was the emperor of the Aztecs when Cortés and his army conquered

The "soft gold" that drove Russian expansion.