Terms of Ch 15
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| 134327853 | Ottoman Turks | Turkic people who advanced from strongholds in Asia Minor during 1350s; conquered large part of Balkans; unified under Mehmed I; captured Constantinople in 1453; established empire from Balkans that included most of Arab world | 0 | |
| 134335001 | Zhenghe | Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded series of Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea trade expeditions under third emperor, Yunglo, between 1405 and 1433; only Chinese attempt to create worldwide trade empire | 1 | |
| 134327855 | Hundred Years War | Conflict between England and France from 1337 to 1453; fought over lands England possessed in France and feudal rights versus the emerging claims of national states | 2 | |
| 134327856 | Francesco Petrarch | One of the major literary figures of the Western Renaissance; an Italian author and humanist | 3 | |
| 134327857 | Iberian Peninsula | Iberia; located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day states Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France | 4 | |
| 134327858 | Inquisition | A former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church created to discover and suppress heresy; 1232-1820 | 5 | |
| 134327859 | Polynesia | Islands contained in a rough triangle whose points lie in Hawaii, New Zealand, and Easter Island | 6 | |
| 134327860 | Maoris | Residents of New Zealand; migrated to New Zealand from Society Islands as early as 8th century CE | 7 | |
| 134327861 | Ibn-Rushd | Muslim philosopher who blended Aristotle and Plato's views with Islam; An Andalusian-Arab philosopher and physician, a master of philosophy and Islamic law, mathematics, and medicine; born in Cordoba, Spain; died in Marrakesh, Morocco | 8 | |
| 134327862 | Beijing | Became the capital of China during the Ming Dynasty because of its centralized location | 9 | |
| 134327863 | Renaissance | Cultural and political movement in western Europe; began in Italy circa 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages | 10 | |
| 134327864 | Giotto | Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance; 1267-1337 | 11 | |
| 134327865 | Castile | Along with Aragon, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda | 12 | |
| 134327866 | Vivaldi brothers | Two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a Western route to the "Indies"; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic | 13 | |
| 134327867 | Society Islands | An island group of French Polynesia in the South Pacific east of Samoa; collectively, Tahiti, Samoa, and Fiji; initial base of Polynesia | 14 | |
| 134327868 | 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 | 15 | |
| 134327869 | Black Death | Plague that struck Europe in 14th century; significantly reduced Europe's population; affected social structure | 16 | |
| 134327870 | Marco Polo | Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan; Venetian merchant and traveler; his accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade; 1254-1324 | 17 | |
| 134327871 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese captain in service of king and queen of Castile and Aragon; successfully sailed to New World and returned in 1492; initiated European discoveries in Americas | 18 | |
| 134327872 | Aragon | Along with Castile, a regional kingdom of the Iberian peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda | 19 | |
| 134327873 | ethnocentrism | Habitual disposition to judge foreign peoples or groups by the standards and practices of your own culture or ethnic group and often finding them inferior | 20 |
