World History Events AD 1400 - 1760
| What city did the Ottoman Turks take on Pentecost Sunday, AD 1453? | Constantinople. |
| Site of the defeat of the Turkish navy by a smaller Christian fleet under Don Juan of Austria on October 7, 1571. | Lepanto. |
| Era marked by humanism, interest in classical culture, and new developments in science and the arts. | Renaissance. |
| Japanese warriors who help the shogun (military leader) isolate and dominate Japan from 1588-1853. | Samurai. |
| Instead of the God-centered Medieval worldview, what did humanism exalt as the ‘measure of all things’? | Man. |
| Spanish Franciscan outposts that mixed evangelization of the Indians with training in agriculture and other trades. | Missions. |
| The first French settlement in Canada which fostered trade and friendship, rather than conquest, of the Indians. | Quebec. |
| The first permanent English settlement in North America (Virginia) in 1607. | Jamestown. |
| How did the European colonists in the New World address the need for labor to harvest crops? | Slaves from Africa. |
| Where did a British garrison die in 1756 after being seized by local Indian authorities? | Black Hole of Calcutta. |
| The other name for the Seven Years War which gave England Canada in 1763 and led to new Colonial taxes. | French and Indian War. |