Fill in the Blanks Fill in the Blanks: Unit 3 and 4 HeadlinesOnline version Test your knowledge of key concepts from Units 3 and 4! by Olivia Lowery 1 Islamic power Safavids gunpowder Ottomans Mughals Empires like the , , and gained through strong armies . 2 consolidated legitimized consolidated power architecture art legitimized religion militaries elites Land Based Empires and power - through and taking from traditional , and through , , and . 3 imperial tax financed bureaucracy Empires power through and system s 4 divisions Catholic unity Belief Christian Protestant systems created but also , like the Reformation where groups broke away from corrupt Church . 5 Portugal navigational France Atlantic Europeans Indian Britain sail Spain Dutc explore the world using technology to to the Ocean and cross the Ocean . / first , then / / 6 Christianity trade gold European Competition empires routes among Powers - all wanted , , , and to spread . 7 American Diseases diseases technologies animals indigenous Columbian New plants Old Exchange - Exchange of , , , and between the World and World . decimate 8 Triangular Atlantic Joint Indian Slave Portuguese Stock silver Economic Important Developments - trade , Trade , companies , the trade , and the trading empire in the Ocean . 9 Asia Internal External slavery state Europe Americas rulers colonial and challenges to power - various groups are trying to resist power , , and absolute in the , , and . 10 Hierarchies social Castas Americas Asia System Europe Changing in the , , and , like the . 11 culture syncretic Americas Europeans Americans religion Christianity Africans Native Enslaved bring their and to the and force on Africans and , creating religions .