Chinese admiral who led numerous voyages throughout the Indian Ocean

Earliest European sea-power.  Set up a school for navigation.

Country that sponsored the first voyages across the Atlantic Ocean

Primary desired-destination for European exploration whether it was traveling south around Africa, West across the Atlantic, or North through the Northern Atlantic

2 new transportation tools utilized to enhance exploration

"commercialism."  The belief in creating a favorable balance of trade with other countries.

The Dutch East India Company is an example of this 

The movement of goods, wealth, and free and unfree laborers, and the mixing of African, American and European cultures and peoples

Abundant commodity utilized in this time period that facilitated global trade

The exchange of new foods, animals, peoples, and diseases between the Old World and the New World

Predominant religion of Southwest Asia and North Africa

Movement that led to new Christian denominations that rejected certain Catholic teachings

New syncretic religion founded in Northern India that contrasted with the popular religions of that region (Hinduism and Islam)

Type of art popularized in Japan

Wealthy Europeans who supported the arts

Amerindian labor system where villages were required to provide a certain amount of workers each year.

Ethnic minority in China that came to power and adopted more popular cultural traits of the majority

The wealthy, landowning class in Japan that had much of its power stripped away by a centralized authority

A person of mixed European and Native American blood

The upper, landowning class in Europe

Empire that utilized Shiite Islam to differentiate itself from its neighbors

Islamic African empire that controlled trade during this era.

Ottoman system of recruitment of Christian boys into the military

System where tax collectors paid a percentage up-front to the government, and then were allowed to collect higher taxes from the people

Islamic empires that bitterly opposed one another

What were 3 land-based empires that expanded dramatically during this time period?