World History to 1600 ch. 16

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________.

India

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

1492

_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.

Charles V

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

Coffee

An expedition sent out the Portuguese king ___________ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.

Henry

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the Battle of _________ thanks to their superior naval tactics.

Lepanto

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

Toward the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman sultans equipped their Janissaries with cannons and _________.

Muskets

In the course of his 14th-century journeys, Ibn Battuta passed through western Anatolia and Constantinople and was impressed by the rising power of the ____________.

Ottomans

After staying three months on the first Bahaman island he found, Christopher Columbus returned to Iberia with ________ and a small quantity of gold.

Seven captured Caribbean islanders

Under Süleyman "the Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the _____________.

Topkapi Palace

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

Two months