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| 15064193166 | Battle of Diu | Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Portuguese. The Portuguese won asserting their dominance over the Indian Ocean for the next couple hundred years. | 0 | |
| 15064196720 | Battle of Lepanto | Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope | 1 | |
| 15064199681 | Songhay Empire | A state located in western Africa from the early 15th to the late 16th centuries following the decline of the Mali Empire. | 2 | |
| 15064202924 | Ivan the Terrible | (1533-1584) earned his nickname for his great acts of cruelty directed toward all those with whom he disagreed, even killing his own son. He became the first ruler to assume the title Czar of all Russia. | 3 | |
| 15064202925 | Ivan the Great | (1462-1505) The Slavic Grand Duke of Moscow, he ended nearly 200 years of Mongol domination of his dukedom. From then on he worked at extending his territories, subduing the nobles, and attaining absolute power. | 4 | |
| 15064207442 | Peter the Great | (1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. | 5 | |
| 15064210257 | Manchus | Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the last of China's imperial dynasties. | 6 | |
| 15064213413 | Emperor Kangxi | The Kangxi Emperor was the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Pass and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1661 to 1722. | 7 | |
| 15064213414 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 8 | |
| 15064217311 | Confucian Exam System | Chinese system implemented and taken away many times over Chinese history. Includes exams on Confucian ideas that were open to all men, and sometimes women. Resulted in an intelligent and capable ruling class | 9 | |
| 15064221110 | Boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 10 | |
| 15064230159 | Timar System | land in exchange for military service, the value of land would be based upon rank and the amount of soldiers provided, not passed on to children | 11 |
