From the AP Edition of World Civilizations: The Global Experience (Fifth Edition) is Chapter 15 Vocabulary. It is for my AP World History class at East Career & Technical Academy.
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| 41659709 | Ibn Rushd | Muslim philosopher who blended Aristotle and Plato's views with Islam | 0 | |
| 41659710 | 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. | 1 | |
| 41659711 | Zhenghe | Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded a series of expeditions to the Indian ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea between 1405 and 1433. | 2 | |
| 41659712 | Renaissance | Rebirth of ideas, art, and architecture of the Greeks and Romans | 3 | |
| 41659713 | Portugal, Castile, Aragon | The first European nation to gain wealth through foreign trade in south and East Asia | 4 | |
| 41659714 | 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. | 5 | |
| 41659715 | Vivaldi Brothers | Two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a Western route to the "Indies"; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic | 6 | |
| 41659716 | Vasco de Gama | A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | 7 | |
| 41659717 | Henry The Navigator | Portuguese prince responsible for direction of series of expeditions along the African coast in the 15th century; marked beginning of Western European expansion | 8 | |
| 41659718 | Ethnocentrism | tendency to believe that one's own group is the standard, the reference point by which other people and groups should be judged | 9 | |
| 41659719 | Ottoman Turks | captured Constantinople in 1453 and rename it Istanbul; as a result the Byzantine people flee to Italian City-States which becomes a catalyst for the expansion of language and art | 10 | |
| 41659720 | Inquisition | a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals) | 11 | |
| 41659721 | Polynesia | largest of the three groups of pacific islands; includes New Zealand, Hawaii, Eastern Tahiti islands | 12 | |
| 41659722 | Maoris | These people are believed to have arrived in New Zealand between A.D. 950 and 1150 | 13 | |
| 41659723 | Marco Polo | 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. | 14 | |
| 41659724 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 15 |
