ottoman/ming

Dominated the eastern Mediterranean Sea (1500s)

Conquered Egypt and Syria (1517)

Laid siege to Vienna (1529)

• Mongols

• Ming

• Ottoman Empire

• Italian City States

Foreign rulers were overthrown.

Admiral Zheng He established trade links.

Civil service exams were reinstated.

• Athens

• Italian City States

• Ottomans

• Ming

Location — included lands surrounding the eastern Mediterranean Sea

People — Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Muslims, Christians, and Jews

Nickname during the 19th and early 20th centuries — “Sick Man of Europe”

• Athens

• Ottomans

• Italian City States

• Ming

Zheng He’s seven voyages are sponsored by the government.

Corn and peanuts are introduced into the people’s diet.

The Forbidden City is built in Beijing.

• Ottomans

• Ming

• Japan

• Korea

Use of cannons, foot soldiers, and muskets

Capture of Constantinople in 1453

Formation of the janissaries as an effective fighting force

• Byzantine Empire

• Ottomans

• Ming

• China

The Ming emperor banned the building of large oceangoing ships in 1433.

The Tokugawa shogun issued the Act of Seclusion in 1636.

One way in which these historical occurrences are similar is that both led to increased

• social mobility

• globalization

• cultural diffusion

• isolation

What is one reason the Ming emperors did not expand China’s economic influence across the Indian Ocean after the voyages of Zheng He?

• Foreign goods were considered inferior to those produced in China

• Conquering European territories drained China’s treasury.

• Resources were needed to combat Japanese Invaders.

• Developing trade networks with Russia was more profitable

LayoutThe Ottoman Turks viewed Constantinople as being strategically important because it

• was the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad

• would allow them to control the Vatican

• was a crossroads between Europe and Asia

• would provide them with access to the Persian Gulf

By the late 1500s, the Ottoman Empire governed an area that extended from

• southwestern Asia to eastern Europe and into northern Africa

• the Arabian Peninsula across northern Africa and into southern Spain

• Mongolia across the central Asian kingdoms

• the Indian subcontinent to the Straits of Malacca

The 1453 conquest of Constantinople is an important turning point in global history because it

• began the Middle Ages

• ushered in Pax Romana

• contributed to the rise of the Ottoman Empire

• signified the end of the Napoleonic Wars