Deck 13: D: The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Major Islamic state centered in Anatolia that came to include the Balkans,the Near East,and much of North Africa.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Answer 1

Ottoman Empire

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The continuance of gathering and hunting societies in substantial areas of the world despite millennia of agricultural advance.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Answer 2

Paleolithic persistence

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Turkic warrior (1336-1405),also known as Tamerlane,whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia,Russia,and India.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Answer 3

Timur

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries;built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people,the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains,which run nearly the entire length of the west coast of South America,and contained perhaps 10 million subjects.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Muslim port city that came to prominence on the waterway between Sumatra and Malaya in the fifteenth century C.E. ;it was the springboard for the spread of a syncretic form of Islam throughout the region.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Great city of West Africa,noted in the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries as a center of Islamic scholarship.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Group of Native American peoples who inhabited present-day New York State and who spoke a language of the same name.They became agricultural about 1300 and lived in villages.Increased conflict among the peoples led to the establishment of a confederation around the fifteenth century among five of the subgroups within this group: the Mohawk,Oneida,Onondaga,Cayuga,and Seneca.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
A "rebirth" of classical learning that is most often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy in the period 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.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Great Chinese admiral (1371-1433)who commanded a fleet of more than 300 ships in a series of voyages of contact and exploration that began in 1405.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Major Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries;dominated by the seminomadic Mexica,who had migrated into the region from northern Mexico.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
One of the most successful empires of India,a state founded by an Islamized Turkic group that invaded India in 1526;these rulers were noted for their efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
The capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire that fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror," an event that marked the end of Christian Byzantium.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
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.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
Major Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century,notable for its efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
People whose lands were east of the Niger River in what is now southern Nigeria in West Africa;they built a complex society that rejected kingship and centralized statehood and relied on other institutions to provide social coherence.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire

Question 17

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.
West Africa's largest pastoral society;its members gradually adopted Islam and took on a religious leadership role that led to the creation of a number of new states.

A)Paleolithic persistence
B)Igbo
C)Iroquois
D)Timur
E)Fulbe
F)Ming dynasty China
G)Zheng He
H)European Renaissance
I)Ottoman Empire
J)seizure of Constantinople in 1453
K)Safavid Empire
L)Songhay Empire
M)Timbuktu
N)Mughal Empire
O)Malacca
P)Aztec Empire
Q)Inca Empire