AP World - Set 7 Flashcards

15064193166	Battle of Diu	Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Portuguese. The Portuguese won asserting their dominance over the Indian Ocean for the next couple hundred years.	0
15064196720	Battle of Lepanto	Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope	1
15064199681	Songhay Empire	A state located in western Africa from the early 15th to the late 16th centuries following the decline of the Mali Empire.	2
15064202924	Ivan the Terrible	(1533-1584) earned his nickname for his great acts of cruelty directed toward all those with whom he disagreed, even killing his own son. He became the first ruler to assume the title Czar of all Russia.	3
15064202925	Ivan the Great	(1462-1505) The Slavic Grand Duke of Moscow, he ended nearly 200 years of Mongol domination of his dukedom. From then on he worked at extending his territories, subduing the nobles, and attaining absolute power.	4
15064207442	Peter the Great	(1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.	5
15064210257	Manchus	Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the last of China's imperial dynasties.	6
15064213413	Emperor Kangxi	The Kangxi Emperor was the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty, the first to be born on Chinese soil south of the Pass and the second Qing emperor to rule over China proper, from 1661 to 1722.	7
15064213414	Zheng He	An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.	8
15064217311	Confucian Exam System	Chinese system implemented and taken away many times over Chinese history. Includes exams on Confucian ideas that were open to all men, and sometimes women. Resulted in an intelligent and capable ruling class	9
15064221110	Boyars	Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts	10
15064230159	Timar System	land in exchange for military service, the value of land would be based upon rank and the amount of soldiers provided, not passed on to children	11