Ap World History Modern Unit 3 |51 Questions| With Correct Answers.

Smallpox {Ans: A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs; responsible for killing Native Americans.}Jesuits {Ans: Also known as the Society of Jesus; founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) as a teaching and missionary order to resist the spread of Protestantism (a result of the Counter Reformation); were often sent to China, Japan, and around the world to gain Catholic converts}Tenochtitlan {Ans: Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.}Songhai {Ans: a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the into the 16th century; eventually defeated by the Moroccans who were broke after fighting with Portugal}Cossacks {Ans: Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.}Imam {Ans: (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque}Timbuktu {Ans: City on the Niger River in the modern country of Mali. It was founded by the Tuareg as a seasonal camp sometime after