chapter 16 history

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.

1492`

During the first three decades of the sixteenth century, which of the following was not a pressing issue plaguing Emperor Charles V?

war with england

Both the Habsburgs and the Ottomans renewed the traditional Islamic-Christian imperialism which had characterized the period of 600-950 and which had given way to the Muslim and Christian commonwealths of _________.

950-1450

The incursion of ______ into Ottoman territory bought time for the Byzantine emperors in the early fifteenth century.

Timur the Great

The Spanish Habsburgs sought to overcome their lack of power over the _________ and the weakness of their Spanish tax base by squeezing as much as they could from their Italian, Flemish and New World possessions.

aristocracy

The _________ was a particularly Portuguese or Spanish show trial in which the state, through the holy office of the Inquisition, judged a person's commitment to the Catholic faith.

auto-da-fe

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.

chivalry

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of a new commodity, _____________, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen.

coffee

Philip II built the massive palatial complex of _________, incorporating a royal residence, a monastic school and a royal necropolis, a very short distance away from the then small provincial city of Madrid.

el escorial

The practice of the devșirme contradicted Islamic law, which:

forbade the enslavement of "peoples of the book"

By the late 13th and early 14th centuries, native shipwrights and their teachers from Genoa teamed up in the port of _____________ to develop new ships suited to the stormy Atlantic.

lisbon

The _______ was a small and slender 60-foot-long ship with a stern rudder, square and lateen sails, and a magnetic compass (of Chinese origin).

caravel

The alliance between the Ottomans and the __________ horrified western Europe in 1534 because it indicated that the Ottoman Empire was a player in European politics.

french

Since the Portuguese had pioneered a direct route from Europe to India via Africa, the _________ became another front of confrontation between Christians and Muslims in the race to gain dominance over the lucrative spice trade.

indian ocean

During the Reconquista, Iberian Christians sought to rid the peninsula of:

muslim rule

Habsburg Spain enlarged its revenue from 1521 to 1536 via the royal _________ share of the Aztec and Inca gold and silver treasure to which it was entitled.

one-fifth

The Ottomans protected Muslim commercial interests in the Indian Ocean by, in part, strengthening the sultan of Aceh on the island of _________.

sumatra

The expulsion of the Jews from "Sefarad", as Spain was called in Hebrew, was designed:

to strengthen the christian unity of Iberia

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

two months

In 1498, _________ reached India by way of Africa, becoming the first European to sail directly from Europe to India.

vasco da gama