AP World History -- Chapter 16 Flashcards

5346315615	Ottoman Empire	a former Turkish empire that was founded about 1300 by Osman and reached its greatest territorial extent under Suleiman in the 16th century	0
5346315616	Ming Dynasty	a major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-14th century to the mid-17th century	1
5346326448	Cheng Ho	Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded series of Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea trade expeditions under third Ming emperor, Yunglo, between 1405 and 1433	2
5346330330	Black Death	an epidemic outbreak in Europe around 1348 that killed between one-third and two-thirds of the population in less than five years	3
5346330331	Renaissance	cultural and political movement in Western Europe; began in Italy c. 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages	4
5346331243	Portugal	republic in Southwestern Europe; bordered by Spain the the north and east	5
5346331244	Castile and Aragon	Regional kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula; pressed reconquest of peninsula from Muslims and ultimately united under the Spanish monarchy	6
5346332985	Francesco Petrarch	one of the major literary figures of the Western Renaissance; an Italian author and humanist	7
5346332986	Vivaldi Brothers	to genoese brothers who attempted to find a western route to the "indies"; disappeared in 1291; precursors of thrust into southern Atlantic	8
5346334124	Henry the Navigator	an important figure in 15th century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire	9
5346334125	Ethnocentrism	Evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture	10