Chapter 16 World History

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

. Chivalry

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

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.

50 million

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

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

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

Mabrid

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

Muskets

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

Portuguese

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

Sinan

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

Topkapı Palace.

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453

Two months

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

coffee

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.

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