AP World History Chapter 12

4. the stone age, known for hunting and gathering, whose ways still characterized much of life in the 15th century
5. an African people who rejected kings and state-building
10. the type of documents that historians rely on that were written by people of an era, such as diaries or customs records
12. the way citizens traversed the globe around 1500
14. how one might describe the world in 1500
17. world population growth in the 20th century
20. the city in the sky (Aunt Gena has been there)
21. one of the American empires (~1500)

1. the type of voyages the Chinese ended in 1433
2. one of the four Islamic empires (~1500)
3. the dynasty under which China recovered from Mongol rule (1368-1644)
6. one of the four Islamic empires (~1500)Renaissance the artists in this period were more interested in describing the world as it was rather than portraying eternal religious truths
7. one of the four Islamic empires (~1500)Encyclopedia an 11,000-book volume written by >2,000 scholars during the Ming Dynasty
8. the other country involved in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)
9. one of the four Islamic empires (~1500)
10. while China suffered from the Mongols, Western Europe suffered from this
11. the era from 1500-2012
13. a large bureaucratic empire (~1500)
15. what the European explorers sought in Asia and Africa around 1500
16. word that means “any period of exceptional revival of the arts and intellectual culture”
18. the explorer whose 15th century voyage set off the growth of Europe as a place of importance
19. one of the countries involved in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)