History Stuff

Jewish Emigration from Granada

1492

Ottoman empire 1550s population

15 million

Mehmet II conquered Constantinople within

2 months

1516 inherited Habsburg

Charles V

Ottoman import Ethiopia

Coffee

13th century Genoa ship development in

Constantinople

Purpose of Spanish Inquisition 1481

Find out people who were not catholic

The practice of the devșirme contradicted muslim law which

Forbade the enslavement of "peoples of the Book."

1534 ottoman alliance

France

1498 Vasco de Gama

India

1571, Eastern Mediterranean, first major sea battle via firepower

Lepanto

1517, Ottomans defeat the _____ and obtain Mecca.

Mamluks

14th century Ibn Battuta was impressed by

Ottomans

1501, Safavid warrior group

Shiite

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

Timur the Great

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

Topkapi Palace

Moriscos driven out of Spain were

forced to leave behind all possessions

Charles V 1550 gives Spain, Naples, and Netherlands to

his son Philip II

Purpose of Spanish Inquisition

maintain Catholic orthodoxy