Yongle
________ also moved the capital to Beijing, ordered the construction of the Forbidden City, a beautiful imperial palace, and the Temple of Heaven, where successive emperors performed Confucian- based rituals.
Ming dynasty China
a revitalized cultural blooming, known in European history as the Renaissance, coincided with the rebirth of all things Confucian.
1405
Timur himself perished in ________ while planning a Chinese assault.
Ottoman
The periodic military confrontation arose between the ________ and Safavid empires over a century (1534- 1639), reflecting both territorial competition and severe religious disagreements.
Pastoral communities
________ have long had a greater immediate and dramatic impact on civilizations than hunting and gathering cultures or farming village societies.
Pastoral peoples of Africa
________ remained independent of established empires for several centuries longer than those in Inner Asia, as they were not absorbed into European colonial governments until the late nineteenth century.
Timur's army of pastoralists
wreaked havoc on Russia, Persia, and India with a savagery that rivaled or exceeded that of his model, Chinggis Khan
Ottoman Empire
existed in various forms from the fourteenth to the early twentieth century, was the most magnificent and long-lasting of the new Islamic powers