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Chapter 13 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aztec Empire | Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica |
| Benin | Territorial state that emerged by the fifteenth century in the region that is now Southern Nigeria; ruled by a warrior king who consolidated his state through widespread conquest |
| chosen women | Among the Incas, girls who were removed from their homes at a young age, trained in Inca ideology, and set to producing corn, beer, and textiles; later they were given as wives or sent to serve as priestesses. |
| Christopher Columbus | Genoese mariner commissioned by Spain to search for a new trading route to Asia; in 1492 he found America instead. |
| The seizure of Constantinople (1453) | Constantinople, the capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan, Mehmed II "the Conqueror", in 1453, an event that marked the end of Christian Byzantium. |
| firestick farming | A manipulation of their environment by the Paleolithic peoples of Australia that involved controlled burns to clear underbrush. |
| Fulbe | West Africa's largest pastoral society, whose members gradually adopted Islam and took on a religious leadership role that led to the creation of a number of new states. |
| Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer whose 1497-1498 voyage was the first European venture to reach India by circling the tip of South Africa. |
| Hundred Years' War | Major conflict between France and England (1337-1453) over rival claims to territory in France; the two states' needed to finance the war helped encourage their administrative development. |
| Igbo | People whose lands were east of the Nger River in what is now southern Nigeria in West Africa; they built a complex society that rejected kingship and centralized statehood and relied on their institutions to provide social coherence. |
| Inca Empire | The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the 15th-early 16th centuries; built by a community of Quechua-speaking people (Incas), the empire stretch some 2,500 miles along the Andes. It contained perhaps 10 million subjects. |
| Iroquois League of Five Nations | Confederation of five Iroquois peoples in what is now New York State; the loose alliance was based on the Great Law of Peace, an agreement to settle disputes peacefully through council of clan leaders. |
| Malacca | Muslim port city that came to prominence on the waterway between Sumatra and Malaya in the 15th; it was the springboard for the spread of a syncretic form of Islam throughout the region. |
| Mexica | Seminomadic people of northern Mexico who by 1325 had established themselves on a small island in Lake Texcoco, where they built their capital city, Tenochtitlan; the Mexica were the central architects of the Aztec Empire. |
| Ming Dynasty | Chinese Dynasty (1368-1644) that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols; noted for its return to traditional ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols. |
| Mughal Empire | One of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by an Islamized Turkic group that invaded India in 1526; the Mughals' rule was noted for their efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims. |
| Ottoman Empire | Major Islamic state centered on Anatolia that came to include the Balkans, the near East, and much of North Africa. |
| Paleolithic persistence | The continuance of gathering and hunting societies in substantial areas of the world despite millennia of agriculture advance. |
| Pochteca | Professional merchants in the Aztec Empire whose wealth often elevated them to elite status |
| European Renaissance | "Rebirth" of classical learning that is most often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy between 1350-1500 and that included not just a rediscovery of Greek learning but also major developments in art, as well as growing secularism in society. |
| Safavid Empire | Major Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century, notable for its efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam. |
| Songhay Empire | Major Turkic empire of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century. |
| Tenochtitlan | The metropolitan capital of the Aztec Empire, with a population of 150,000-200,000 people. |
| Timbuktu | Great city of West Africa, noted in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries as a center of Islamic scholarship. |
| Timur | Turkic warrior, Tamerlane, whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia, Russia, and India. |
| Triple Alliance | 1428 agreement between the Mexica and two other nearby city-states that launched the Aztec Empire. |
| Yongle | Chinese emperor during the Ming dynasty who was a key figure in the restoration of China to its greatness and who commissioned an enormous fleet to spread awareness of Chinese superiority to much of Asia and east Africa. |
| Zheng He | Great Chinese admiral who commanded a fleet of more that 300 ships in a series of voyages. |
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