Chapter 22 Flashcards

49831689	Rabban Sauma	was a Nestorian Christian priest whom the Mongols sent to the Pope to form an alliance against the Muslims.	0
49831690	John of Montecorvino	The most active of Roman Catholic missionaries in China	1
49831691	Hongwu	He came from a very poor family, but for his size and strength, he came to the notice of military commanders and made his way through the ranks which led to him becoming emporer of the Ming Dynasty	2
49831692	Zheng He	a eunuch in the service of the Ming emperor Yung-lo and commander in chief of the Chinese expeditionary fleet to the South Seas in the early years of the 15th century	3
49831693	Prince Henry	Portuguese prince who started a school for sailors and sponsored early voyages of exploration	4
49831694	Vasco de Gama	A Portugese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean	5
49831695	Fernando and Isabel	the king and queen of Spain, underwrote Columbus's voyage	6
49831696	Christopher Columbus	Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) ; doubted that his plan could lead to a profitable trade	7
49831697	qadi	A Muslim judge who renders decisions according to the Shari'ah, the canon law of Islam.	8
49831698	Sufi	A Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means	9
49831699	Melaka	The first major center of Islam in Southeast Asia, a port kingdom on the southwestern coast of the Malay Peninsula.	10
49831700	Little Ice Age	A century-long period of cool climate that began in the 1590s. Its ill effects on agriculture in northern Europe were notable. (p. 462)	11
49831701	Black Death	the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe	12
49831702	Ming Dynasty	marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia	13
49831703	Reconquista	was he effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492.	14
49831704	renaissance	the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world	15
49831705	Humanism	the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason	16