Ottoman Empire
Identify the technology developed by Mehmed II used to rapidly expand the Ottoman Empire.
Cannons
Identify the specific religious affiliation of the Safavid Empire.
Shi'a Islam
Identify the common religious influence in Ming/Qing China & Tokugawa Japan.
Buddhism
Daoism
Neo-Confucianism
Identify the governmental philosophy employed by feudal Russian monarchs.
Absolutism
Identify the traditional language of the Roman Catholic mass.
Latin
Identify the Christian city captured by the Ottomans which legitimized them as a world power.
Constantinople (1453) => Istanbul
Identify the majority population who opposed Mughal rule.
Hindu
Identify the bureaucratic influence reestablished during the Ming Dynasty (continued during Qing Dynasty).
Civil Service Exam
Identify the title for Russian monarchs.
Czar
Identify the Renaissance Roman Catholic practices opposed by Martin Luther in his "95 Theses" nailed to the door of the church in Wittenberg.
Simony
indulgences
Identify the substance of the tension between the Ottomans and the Safavids.
Sunni/Shi'a split
Identify the syncretic religion founded in response to socio-religious tension in the Mughal Empire.
Sikhism
Identify the cultural notion which served to legitimize political rule in East Asia.
Mandate of Heaven
Identify the primary motive for Russian expansion eastward.
Furs
Identify the Spanish system of inquiry to determine the validity of a person's faith during the Reconquista of Spain.
Inquisition
Identify the example of monumental architecture constructed under Suleiman I which legitimized his rule.
Suleyman Mosque
Identify the Islamic conqueror who instituted the Safavid socio-cultural influence of the "Ghazi Ideal" (Islamic holy warrior).
Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)
Identify the title held by Japanese feudal lords if the Mandate of Heaven rested on them.
Shogun
Identify the wealthy social group responsible for regular internal rebellions within Russia.
Boyars
Identify the English king who protested the Roman Catholic Church by founding the Anglican Church.
Henry VIII
Identify the recruitment system and the name of the elite royal guard who also served as tax farmers for the Ottoman empire.
Devshirme
Janissaries
Identify the example of monumental architecture that helped to financially break the Mughal Empire.
Taj Mahal
Identify the frequent internal rebellion that eventually bankrupted the Ming dynasty.
Peasant uprising
Identify the serf horse-musketeer soldiers raised by Russian landowners.
Cossacks
Identify the religious conflict within the Holy Roman Empire brought about directly because of the Protestant Reformation (resolved by the Peace of Westphalia).
Thirty Years' War
Identify the nickname given to the Ottomans as the empire aged and began to crumble.
"Sick Man of Europe"
Identify the tax farmers for the Mughal empire.
Zamindars
Identify the Japanese foreign policy which protected it from becoming another European "Sphere of Influence".
Isolationism
Identify the example of monumental architecture constructed by Peter I to legitimize his rule.
Winter Palace
Identify the Roman Catholic (eventual) response to the Protestant Reformation.
Counter Reforamtion
Explain ONE reason the Gunpowder empires rose and expanded during the period 1450-1750.
Gunpowder => Expansion
Explain ONE reason that Gunpowder Empires constructed impressive buildings for worship/memorials during the period 1450-1750.
Taj Mahal => Legitimization
Describe ONE way in which the political structures of the Aztecs were similar to those in China in the period 1450-1750.
Tribute/Blood Tax
Explain ONE way in which the cultures of the Gunpowder Empires differed from one another.
Religion
Explain ONE way in which the challenges to the Roman Catholic Church were similar to the religious challenges in the Gunpowder Empires between 1450-1750.
Catholic/Protestant
Sunni/Shi'a v. Islam/Hindu