Unit 6: Ottoman Empire and Ming Dynasty

Filial Piety

respect shown by children for their parents and elders

Ethnocentricism

judging other cultures by the standards of your own, which you believe to be superior.

Foreigner

a person from another country

Ottoman Empire

Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constaninople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe.

Fall of the Byzantine Empire

Muslim armies conquered Constantinople in 1453 and invaded Eastern Europe and brought the end to Christian dominance in the East. (1453)

Ming Dynasty

A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia

Vizier

a high government official in Muslim countries

Anatolian Peninsula

In Southwest Asia between the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea.

Sultan

Military and political leader with absolute authority over a Muslim country

Mandate of Heaven

a political theory of ancient China in which those in power were given the right to rule from a divine source

diplomat

A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.