Chapter 16

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

Charles V

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

Henry

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

India

The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in _____________.

Madrid

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

Topkapi Palace

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

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

1492

By the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some ______________ inhabitants.

15 million

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

2 months

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of Pope _________.

Leo X

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

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

"Auto-da-fé" means "act of faith" in the ___________ language.

Portuguese

The Shehzade and Süleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirne were designed by __________.

Sinan

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

muskets

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

The Karagöz was a:

shadow puppet theater

Stationary theaters with stages, main floors, balconies, and boxes appeared in the main cities of Spain during the ________ century.

sixteenth