AP World - Era 2 (1450-1750)
Across
- 3. First of his name, this Shia leader founded the Safavid dynasty in 1501
- 5. Northeast Asian people who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founding the Qing Dynasty in 1644
- 10. In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered this former capital of the Byzantine Empire
- 13. Small, easily steerable ship used by Spanish and Portuguese explorers
- 15. Economic policy that emphasized exports and took raw materials from colonies in exchange for finished manufactured goods
- 18. A type of elite Ottoman infantry, originally of slave origin
- 20. Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368 to 1644 and sponsored (then ended) Zheng He's expeditions
- 21. These Europeans were known as a "Trading Post Empire" because they controlled trade routes by forcing merchants to use fortified trading posts
- 23. This Spanish system effectively treated natives as enslaved
- 24. This economic system emphasizes private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods based on free market principles
Down
- 1. The system of "selection" which involved the abduction of Christian boys from the Balkans to serve the Ottoman Empire
- 2. This exchange refers to plants, animals, and diseases transferred between the "old" and "new" worlds
- 4. This term refers to the blending of beliefs and practices from different religions
- 6. This example of monumental architecture was built by Shah Jahan to honor his wife (two words)
- 7. This Spanish term refers to "conquerors"
- 8. This type of slavery refers to when an enslaved person is legally considered property
- 9. A critical innovation that enabled imperial expansion in the early modern era
- 11. Process that established Protestantism and then followed by a Catholic "counter"
- 12. This example of a cash crop was particularly relevant for the trans-Atlantic slave trade
- 14. A Sunni Muslim empire centered around Anatolia that lasted from ca 1300-1922
- 16. A West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591
- 17. This Indian religion of syncretic origins was founded in the Punjab region by guru Nanak
- 19. The most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire, known for policies of religious tolerance
- 20. This system had Incan origins and involved people using labor to "pay" taxes
- 22. This highly contagious disease was among the most deadly "imports" to the new world