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 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. O'Briens favorite holiday?
Thanksgiving
The Russian Empire relied on these forward settlers and mercenaries to expand the borders.
What are the Cossacks?
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?
Large Chinese shipping vessel?
The 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
What feudal Japanese society existed during this era?
The Tokugawa Shogunate
This Safavid Shah, known for modernizing the Persian military and expanding the empire, established Shia Islam as the state religion.
The Ming Dynasty and Qing used this sytem to manage relationships with foreign states, requiring contributions in exchange for trading privileges.
What is a tribute system?
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
Current country founded and birthed from the ideas of the Safavid
Iran
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?
Mr. O'Briens favorite NBA player is.....
Jalen Brunson