APMWH - Units 3 & 4: Parts 4-5

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This was largest, longest lasting, and most powerful of the Islamic land-based empires that emerged in Afro-Eurasia during the period 1450-1750.

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Ottoman Empire

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A masterful general, this Ottoman sultan's conquests in the mid-1550s expanded the empire to its greatest extent:

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Suleiman the Magnificent

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This Ottoman practice involved enslaving Christian children and training them to be either government officials or elite soldiers:

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Devshirme System

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This empire, established by Safi Al-Din in the early 14th century, was notable for its embrace of Shia Islam.

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Safavid Empire

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This Mughal sultan's attempt to expand Islam across India in the late 1600s generated conflict and expensive wars, contributing to the effective collapse of the empire in the early 18th century:

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Aurangzeb

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This mausoleum (built in Uttar Pradesh, India c. 1640) is inarguably the most impressive work of monumental architecture produced by the Mughal Dynasty:

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Taj Mahal

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This empire, conquered by the sultan of Morocco in the late 1500s, was the last in a succession of West African empires that controlled the southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade:

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Songhai

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This city fell to the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II in 1453, bringing to an end 1,100 years of Byzantine imperial rule:

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Constantinople

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Due to the pioneering artistic and architectural innovations of Giotto, Donatello, and Masaccio, plus the wealth and patronage of the Medici family, this Italian city is typically recognized as the birthplace of the European Renaissance:

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Florence

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Arguably the greatest artist of the Italian Renaissance, he sculpted the David and the Pieta and painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel:

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Michaelangelo