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| 261226957 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement in Western Europe; began in Italy c. 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages. | 0 | |
| 261226958 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, this empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 1 | |
| 261226959 | Ibn-Rushd | Muslim philosopher who blended Aristotle and Plato's views with Islam | 2 | |
| 261226960 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. | 3 | |
| 261226961 | Cheng Ho | Famous Chinese admiral; explored Indian Ocean and Western Pacific with seven voyages of the "Treasure Fleet" | 4 | |
| 261226962 | Black Death | a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population. | 5 | |
| 261226963 | Portugal, Castile, and Aragon | Regional Iberian kingdoms; participated in reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda. | 6 | |
| 261226964 | Francesco Petrarch | Known as the father of Renaissance Humanism. He lived from 1304-1374 as a cleric and committed his life to humanistic pursuits and careful study of the classics. He resisted writing in the Italian vernacular except for his sonnets, which were composed to his "lady love" who spoke no Latin. | 7 | |
| 261226965 | Vivaldi brothers | Two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a Western route to the "Indies"; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic | 8 | |
| 261226966 | Henry the Navigator | (1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa. | 9 | |
| 261226967 | ethocentrism | the tendency to assume that ones own culture and way of life represent the norm or are superior to all others; the practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture | 10 |
