Short Answer

Part 1: Short Answer
1.
Zheng He was a Chinese explorer who carried out seven voyages in 28 years between the years 1405 to 1433. He is believed to have controlled the biggest ships in the world at the time and explored vast areas such as South East Asia, South Asia, islands in the Indian Ocean, Africa nations and many others. During his voyages, Zheng He made peaceful visits and helped spread Chinese culture as he intermingled and interacted with his hosts, apart from a few instances where he met hostility and retaliated. While he was traveling, he assisted people in the places he visited through improving their lives in religion, agriculture, building roads and digging. This made many individuals to appreciate him and adopt some of the Chinese cultures. Some of the evidence of appreciation are the historical sites seen at various temples in Indonesia, Kenya, Thailand, and India.
2.
During his tenure, Louis XIV centralized the power to himself and made it clear that he was beyond any laws and was only accountable to God. He weakened the forces that would weaken his dictatorship. Some of these forces were the legislature which was denied its traditional rights to make laws, and he remained the only lawmakers. Furthermore, the wealthy nobles were weakened and power given to the new aristocratic families so that he could control them. The King had ministers, secretaries, and governors who were supposed to help him but he ordered them never to make any decision unless he is the one who has ordered them.

These are just a few examples of the absolutism of Louis XIV.
3.
Contrarily, Timbuktu was strategically located geographically in West Africa. It was a center for trading routes in West Africa and attracted a lot of trade merchants with a variety of items. This made it a major economic city that favored trade. Also, being a center of major trade routes, it received ‘people from varying cultures and, therefore, it tolerated cultural diversity
4.
The coffee houses were the only social places in the early Islamic world where people would sit and chat since the other places like the bars are illegal in Islam. In coffee houses, elites in the Muslim world would meet and discuss a lot of issues that were affecting them or the ones significant in their world. Some of the issues discussed were politics and laws.
5.
According to history, Muslim rulers respected the right of the non-Muslims and were not forced to do anything which did not conform to their beliefs. This is attributed to the Islamic religious teachings that Muslims should be merciful and give just treatment to people of other faiths. The just treatment of non-Muslims by the Islamic ruler was done in foreign countries and home countries and was done as obedience to religion.
6.
This declaration gave the power back to people and gave them the rights to liberty, property security as well as the right to demonstrate against oppression. It recognized the citizen’s freedom of speech. The declaration further asserted the equality of Man and their Sovereignty, with clear confirmation that the law should rest with the people, the leaders should be responsible to people, and the finances should be controlled by the people.
7.
Great Britain had a number of advantages that favored industrialization such as political stability that provided a good environment for inventions, a huge number of natural resources, access to resources which increased as a result of overseas colonies. Additionally, freedom of thought also allowed for technological inventions as well as wealthy businesspeople who were ready to invest.
8.
This is an ideology that advocates for and contained in the old common law that men and women are various and, therefore, should have different places in the society. The ideology asserts that the place for a woman is at home to serve the husband and they are unfit to indulge in any economic generating activities
9.
The Empire was a multinational containing of Germans, Czechs, and Hungarians. Due to the frequent tensions, the occupants of this empire ascribed to the spirit of nationalism which advocated of the self-governing. This nationalism led to revolution in 1848 against the empire
10.
These are two social classes according to Marx analysis of capitalism. The bourgeoisie is the social class that depends on ownership means of production whereas the proletariat is the class that depends on non-ownership of production. The two social classes are believed to exploit each other.
Part 2: Essay
This is the era where the explorations took place. Europe was determined to discover the world in the efforts to expand of their countries. This is also the era trading started changing from local trading to exportation and importation of commodities overseas with spice trade being a major form of trade. It is in this era that Caravel the famous ship was built to help the Portuguese sail to the West Africa when Prince Henry the Navigator was sending sailors to explore the West African coast. It is during this time that the Columbian exchange became famous that involved the widespread transfer of agricultural products, livestock, human culture and technologies between the America and the old world. The middle passage also took place during this time where Europeans took slaves from West Africa and traded them to the new world for raw materials and other commodities such as spices.