Empires: Expansion
The Ottomans captured this city in 1453, effectively ending the Eastern Roman Empire's control over key trading routes.
What is Constantinople?
King Louis XIV of France legitimized his power and demonstrated wealth by moving the French capital and constructing an elaborate palace in which location?
What is Versailles?
This was the official state religion of the Safavid Empire.
What is Shia / Shi'ite Islam?
The Qing Dynasty in China was ruled predominantly by which ethnic group?
Who are the Manchus?
What is Mr. Saenz's favorite Marvel character
Wolverine
These factors contributed to Manchu expansion in Asia during the 17th & 18th centuries
What are the cannon and gunpowder?
This Ottoman ruler legitimized his rule by building hospitals, bridges, mosques, and sponsoring the arts, leading to a "Golden Age of Islam."
Who is Suleiman the Great?
This Mughal emperor is known for promoting religious tolerance and even creating a syncretic religion called Din-i Ilahi to unify his empire.
Who is Akbar the Great?
This is one reason that the Russians expanded into Siberia.
What is (1) to reach sea; (2) trade of furs and timber?
In Star Wars, the Millenium Falcon is descibed as this. It is also the name of this large Chinese shipping vessel.
What is Junk ?
The Ottomans used this system to convert Christian boys into elite warriors known as janissaries.
What is the devshirme system?
This administrative method in the Ottoman Empire involved wealthy individuals purchasing the right to collect taxes on behalf of the state, often leading to corruption and over-taxation.
What is tax-farming?
Belief system in Ottoman empire?
Sunni Islam
Emperor Akbar famously removed the jixya tax during his reign, which was a head tax on all non-Muslim subjects, leading to more of a what society?
Religiously tolerant Mughal Empire
In Star Trek, this allows a starship to travel faster than light by creating a "bubble" that distorts local spacetime around the vessel
What is warp drive?
This Safavid Shah, known for modernizing the Persian military and expanding the empire, established Shia Islam as the state religion.
What feudal Japanese society existed during this era?
The Tokugawa Shogunate
This Sufi-inspired religion, founded by Guru Nanak in the Mughal Empire, blended elements of Hinduism and Islam.
What is Sikhism? And Divine Faith
What European nation caused the decline and eventually took over the Mughals
Great Britain
In Battlestar Galactica, this ship was the mainstay fighter of the Colonial fleet. It is also a type of reptile.
What is a Viper?
This empire expanded into central China and established regional trade until the arrival of European sea-trading empires.
The Manchu
These are two specific examples of Peter the Great's reforms in Russia.
What is (expanded bureaucracy, created navy, Westernized clothes, beard tax, made senate, St. Petersburg, etc.)
These Gunpowder Empires were known for being closely related due to their systems of religious toleration.
Mughal and Ottoman
This Ming dynasty admiral led a series of state-sponsored maritime expeditions in the Indian Ocean, reaching as far as East Africa between 1405 and 1433.
Who is Zheng He?
In Star Wars, the Imperial Navy flew fighters called TIE fighters. What does TIE stand for?
Twin Ion Engine