Chapter 13
Paleolithic persistence
Areas that still held paleolithic people into the early modern era.
Benin
A kingdom in Africa that emerged in the 1400's and was highly centralized and territorial
Igbo
A group of tribes that emerged in the Niger River Valley. They were a stateless society with no ruler and had many trading networks.
Ottoman Empire
A empire that emerged in the 15th century Anatolia as an Islamic Empire and mainly Turkic people dominated the population of the empire.
Seizure of Constantinople (1453)
When the Ottoman Empire captured the city of Constantinople and ended the Byzantium Empire.
Safavid Empire
An empire that emerged in late 15th to early 16th century in the lands that use to be the Persians with the main religion as Sufi Islam. The Safavid Empire and the Ottoman Empire had lots of military conflicts due to religious differences.
Iroquois
An agrarian society in North America that is a member of the Iroquois Confederation.
Timur
A Turkic warrior that took control of Russia, Persia, and India.
Fulbe
Africa's largest western herding society that lived in small communities and payed fees to agrarian societies when they needed to graze their cattle.
Songhay Empire
A empire that rose in the 15th century in western Africa and was culturally diverse.
Timbuktu
A city in the Songhay Empire.
Mughal Empire
An Islamic Empire that covered and united most of India. The empire lasted from 1526 to 1707 and was also religious tolerant under the rule of Akbar until Aurangzeb ruled between 1658 to 1707.
Malacca
A port city between Malaya and Sumatra in Indonesia that became an Islamic learning center as well as a place for Islam religion to spread.
Aztec Empire
An empire in Central America that was started by a semi-nomad group that migrated from North Mexico southwards and in 1325 settled in Lake Texcoco. Later they conquered all the tribes around them and created their empire. Later in the 1500's they got conquered by the Spanish and ended the Aztec Empire.
Inca Empire
An empire that started in the Andes that lasted from the 15th to 16th centuries.