chapter 15

What were the symptoms of the decline in the Arabic Caliphate by 1300?

What was the political state of the Middle East following the fall of the Abbasid Empire and the withdrawal of the Mongols?

What Chinese dynasty was associated briefly with the establishment of state-sponsored international commerce?

For how long did the Chinese government sponsor international commercial voyages in the fifteenth century?

Make a statement concerning the cessation of state-sponsored trade in China.

What was a drawback to the West's emergence as a global power?

What was the disease that accounted for the enormous loss of life in the fourteenth century?

What features allowed Italy to emerge as the center of the early Renaissance?

Where were the two major regional monarchies that were established soon after 1400?

Why did the West begin the exploration of new trade routes ca. 1400?

What is a common element of the Polynesian societies of Hawaii and New Zealand?

After 1400 the Aztec and Inca empires

The Americas and Polynesia still remain unaffected by the international exchange during the _______

The __________ was a Turkic government established in Asia Minor and eventually spreading throughout the Middle East following the retreat of the Mongols.

The __________ dynasty was established in China following the overthrow of the Mongol Yuan dynasty.

The cultural and political movement that begin in Italy ca. 1400 and that created a literary and an artistic style with distinctly more secular priorities was called the __________.

Two kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, __________ pressed the reconquest of Spain from the Muslims.

One of the major literary figures of the western Renaissance, __________ was an Italian author and humanist.

Two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a western route to the "Indies," the __________ disappeared in 1291.