Vocabulary 4 - World History

Invented within China during the 9th century, this substance was became the dominate military technology used to expand European and Asian empires by the 15th century.

(a)  

a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591

• Songhai Empire

• Safavids

• Mongols

• Mali Empire

a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack, designed for defense

(a)  

The body of Roman law collected by order of the Byzantine emperor, Justinian around A.D. 534.

(a)   Code

(1215) a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John of England was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom

• Magna Carta

• Black Death

• Edict of Nantes

• Justinian Code

document that granted religious freedom to the Huguenots in France, ended religious warfare in France

• Magna Carta

• Black Death

• Edict of Nantes

• Justinian Code

The common name for a major outbreak of plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying off vast numbers of persons.

• Magna Carta

• Black Death

• Edict of Nantes

• Justinian Code

A Shi'ite Muslim dynasty that ruled in Persia (Iran and parts of Iraq) from the 16th-18th centuries that had a mixed culture of the Persians, Ottomans and Arabs.

(a)  

Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.

• Ibn Battuta

• Magna Carta

• gunpowder

• castle

(1215) a charter of liberties (freedoms) that King John of England was forced to sign; it made the king obey the same laws as the citizens of his kingdom

Magna (a)