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Chapter 15 Questions
Describe the decline in the Arabic caliphate by 1300.
What was the date that Arabs were completely excluded from European trade?
Describe Arabic trade after 1100.
Describe the political fragmentation of the Arabic world.
Describe the Ottoman Empire.
What area was a new conquest for the Ottoman Empire?
Which civilization attempted to fill the commercial vacuum created by the decline in Arabic trade?
What Chinese dynasty succeeded the Mongol Yuan dynasty in China?
What innovation was launched by the Ming dynasty?
Why is the date 1433 important in the Ming dynasty?
Describe the reasons for the Ming dynasty to halt trading expeditions.
Who was Cheng Ho
Describe the drawbacks to the West’s emergence as a global power.
Describe the factors of the economic crises of the 14th century.
How proportion of the European population died in the 14 th century plague?
Describe the sources of Western dynamism in the 14 th and 15th centuries.
Where did strong regional monarchies take hold during this period?
From which source did technological innovations arrive in the West during the 13 th and 14th centuries?
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Compare medieval culture and Renaissance culture.
Describe the reasons that Italy emerged as the center of the early Renaissance.
Who was Giotto?
What was the importance of the city-state Genoa?
What was another key center for political change, other then Italy, in the 14 th and 15th centuries?
Describe the development of states in the Iberian Peninsula.
Describe the international economic difficulty experienced by the West by 1400 and their response.
What was the key theme of Polynesian culture from the 7 th century to 1400?
Describe the characteristics of Hawaiian culture.
Contrast New Zealand and Hawaii.
Know the term ethnocentrism.
Describe the European contact with sub-Saharan Africa after 1500.