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Christopher Columbus
________ 'trip in 1492 opened up the New World and formed new links between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Little Ice Age
The ________, driven by many natural phenomena that lowered the quantity of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface, most likely began in the fourteenth century and may have continued until the early nineteenth century.
Muscovite king Ivan IV
The ________ " (the Terrible, "r. 1533- 1584) stretched his dominion east to the Ural Mountains, north to the Barents Sea, and south to the Caspian Sea throughout the 1500s.
Qianlong emperor
The ________ battled in the northwest and west, conquering various non- Chinese peoples, most notably the Muslim Uigurs and Tibetans, and absorbing them and their territory into the empire.
Muscovite kings
________ extended their territory during the following 150 years by conquering neighboring Russian- speaking states.
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