AP World Chapter 15 Flashcards

284336252	False	The rising Sufi movement and its emphasis on piety in Islam led to a diminished role for philosophy and science among the Muslims	0
284336253	Ming	The ___ dynasty sponsored huge, state-sponsored trading expeditions that reached as far as the Middle East and the eastern coast of Africa	1
284336254	Zhenge	Muslim merchant in charge of the Chinese trading expeditions	2
284336255	1405	Year the Chinese trading expeditions began	3
284336256	1433	Year the Chinese trading expeditions ended	4
284336257	True	The Mongol Empire made it possible for Western Europe to learn about Asian technologies such as the compass and explosive gunpowder	5
284336258	False	Once the Mongol Empire fell, people were able to tart using overland trade routes in Asia that had previously been too dangerous to travel	6
284336259	Italy	Center of initial Renaissance cultural definitions because it retained more contact with Roman tradition than did the rest of Europe	7
284336260	False	The Italian Renaissance involved a firm rejection of all religious works in favor of a humanistic approach	8
284336261	False	In the 1400s, the Muslims made new gains on the Iberian peninsula by diving back the Portuguese and the Spanish	9
284336262	Vasco da Gama	Portuguese explorer that was the first European to reach India by sea	10
284336263	False	Early Western colonization in the Madeiras and the Canaries was based on small, single-family holdings seeking to establish agricultural self-sufficiency	11
284336264	Sugar	First cash crop introduced to the Atlantic islands by Europeans	12
284336265	False	Unlike the civilization of the Americas, Polynesia was not vulnerable to the importation of European diseases	13
284336266	Maori	First Polynesians to adapt successfully to the colder and harsher environment of New Zealand	14
284336267	True	The decline of the Arabs reduced the vitality of Africa's key traditional contact with the international network	15
284336268	True	The Ottoman Empire gained greater territorial influence than ever possessed by the Arabic dynasties in southeastern Europe	16