HIST 121 Final Exam

Major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica, who had migrated from northern Mexico

Territorial state that emerged by the fifteenth century in southern Nigeria; ruled by a warrior king who consolidated his state through widespread conquest

Genoese mariner commissioned by Spain to search for a new trading route to Asia; in 1492 he founded America instead

1453 = The capital and only outpost left of the Byzantine empire, fell to the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed II "the conquerer," marked the end of the Christian Byzantine empire

Portuguese explorer whose 1497-1498 voyage was the first European venture to reach India by circling the tip of South Africa

1300 - 1650 = in which weapons that utilized gunpowder to fire projectiles gained a prominence in militaries throughout the world. These gunpowder weapons gave those possessing them a distinct advantage over those without them, aiding in the frowth of numerous empires.

1337-1453: Major conflict between France and England over rival claims to territory in France; The two states' need to finance the war helped encourage their administrative development.

The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries; built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people (the Inca), the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains, which run nearly the entire length of the west coast of South America, and contained perhaps 10 million subjects

Muslim port city that came to prominence on the waterway between Sumatra and Malaya in the fifteenth century C.E.; it was the springboard for the spread of a syncretic form of Islam throughout the region

Seminomadic people of northern Mexico who by 1325 had established themselves on a small island in Lake Texcoco, were they built their capital city, Tenochtitlan; the MExica were the central architects of the Aztec Empire

1368-1644 = chinese dynasty that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols; noted for its return to traditional Chinese ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols

One of the most successful empires of India, a state founded by an Islamized Turkic group that invaded India in 1526; the Mughals' rule was noted for their efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims