Pieces of the World History Puzzle

by Kathy Warnes

1. The special crop of the Aztecs was __________________.
2. The ______ kept domesticated animals out of the rain forests of Africa.
3. Two world religions, _________ influenced Sub-Saharan Africa.
4. The religious centers of Islam i
5. The Aztec government consisted of a ________________.
6. ncluded Mecca, Medina, Baghdad, Cairo, and _______________.
7. The spread of the___________was the most significant historical development for much of the Eurasian world in the Fourteenth Century.
8.  ______followed the Plague, killing many of the already weakened survivors.
9. The hereditary ruling family that passed power from generation to generation in  Fourteenth Century Eurasia was the ____________.
10. The three Islamic dynasties were the____________
11. The capital city of____ _____and the Topkapi dominated the Ottoman Empire.
12. The majority of the Muslim community are called ________.
13. These Muslims believe the descendant line of Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali. They are called __________.
14. The church wielded enormous power in the lives of ordinary people through the papacy and the ________.
15. The priestly castes under Hinduism are called __________.
16. Under the ______________system, lords governed lands and the people who were tied to those lands.
17. The _____Empire was based in Persia which is modern Iran.
18. In China, the _____dynasty replaced the Mongols in 1368.
19. Chinese ______power included ocean exploration.
20. Pressing along the coast of Africa, _____ navigators redirected trade routes away from the Mediterranean and away from the Atlantic. Ocean.
21. The fortunes of France and ______ were as closely linked as those of  Portugal and Spain.
22. A period of cultural achievement linked to new politics occurring between about 1430 and 1550. ______
23.     This precious medal was essential to the functioning of the    Ming economic system.  ______
24.     In May 1453, the Ottomans conquered the Byzantine city of _______
25.    Unlike Columbus, who planned to sail west across the Atlantic, the _______ explorers headed south, looking to get to Asia by going around Africa.
26.     New technologies aided European expansion, but ______made the difference.
27. Christopher Columbus landed on the beach of San Salvador in the ____on October 12, 1492.
28. The two goals of the European colonizers were to make ______ and to save_____.
29. Columbus found gold on the island of _____ which is present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
30. The Spanish conquistador _______ conquered the city of Tenochtitlan.
31. The Spanish brought  ______ and other diseases which made it easier to conquer Mexico.
32. The hemispheric transfer of vegetables and other crops between Europe and the Americas was called the_______.
33. The Portuguese solved the labor problem in Brazil by importing African_______
34. ___________explored the coast of Africa.
35. _________discovered the Pacific Ocean.
36. _________circumnavigated the earth.
37. had been involved in the long distance slave trade well before European merchants arrived off the coast of West Africa.
38.    In the sixteenth century slave trade, a three tiered slave trade developed with Africa supplying the labor, the Americas land and minerals and ______ the technology and military power.
39.     The _______ dynasty in Europe almost realized the dream of universal empire.
40.    The Sixteenth Century reformers of the church, like _____had no idea that their complaints would split Christendom for good.
41.     The Catholic Church responded to the challenges of Luther and Calvin by embarking on a successful reformation of its own that became known as ________.
42. Military campaigns consolidated Akbar’s control over the ______.
43.    That overseas possessions exist only to enrich European motherlands is a principle of _____.
44.    This Fifteen Century Indian alliance in upstate New York was a loose confederation of Indian allies. 
45.    Jacques Cartier and____  discovered the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes.
46.   The Mughal empire under ____became one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful in India.
47.   Europeans had to depend exclusively on _____ knowledge to prosper in the fur trade in North America.
48.   After 1630 the_________ Puritan Colony in expanded greatly in population.
49.    In the Caribbean, ______was a killing crop.
50.    The Tokugawa ____  in Japan ensured a flow of resources from the working population to rulers and from the provinces to the capital.
51.     In Russia, the right to make war, tax, judge, and coin money was limited to the ____ and his retinue.

Answers

Ferdinand Magellan  Slaves Columbian Exchange    Prince Henry the Navigator  Balboa Maize Theocracy Christianity and Islam Tsetse fly Jerusalem Istanbul Ottoman Empire Safavid State and the Mughal Empire   dynasty The Counter Reformation Martin Luther
Habsburg Europeans Africans famine Black Death Sunnis Shiites  clergy  Brahmans Feudal England  Portuguese  naval Ming  Safavid Renaissance  diseases Portuguese Constantinople  silver Iroquois Confederation Massachusetts Sugar Shogunate tsars Smallpox Bahamas  money souls Hispaniola  Hernan Cortes 

Samuel de Champlain Mercantilism Indian sub continent Akbar

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