Russian Empire
How did the Russian government encourage conversion to Christianity?
By destroying mosques and forcing the resettlement of Muslims.
What was the main religion of the Ottoman Empire?
What is Christianity?
What is a Sultan?
What is the king of an empire/kingdom.
What was the first dynasty of China?
What is the Qin Dynasty?
What was Akbar's policy towards religion in the Mughal Empire?
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He promoted a policy of toleration and allowed representatives of various religions to participate in intellectual discussions in a special House of Worship
The leading role of the Safavid government
What is the Prime Minister?
True/False
The Ottomans were ORIGINALLY called the Turkish
What is TRUE?
What is a caliph?
What is the head of the Muslims in the entire world.
How did the Qing maintain ethnic divisions with other East Asian ethnic groups?*
By disallowing intermarriage between the Qing and other ethnic groups
How did Aurangzeb's policies towards religion contribute to the decline of the Mughal Empire?
They sparked opposition and discontent among Hindus and fractured the empire
According to a Kazakh Herder, "The grass and the water belong to Heaven, and why should we pay any fees?"
The uprooting of traditional economies to force reliance of Siberians on the Russian market.
Did the Ottoman Empire allow you to practice any religion you wanted?
What is YES?
Muslim war-like tribes that invaded India.
Who are the Mughals?
How did the Chinese government attempt to govern central Eurasia as inexpensively as possible?
By using local nobles, leaders and politicians as intermediaries between the Qing government and local poluations
Gifts given to Akbar's bureaucrats which prevented feudalism in the Mughal Empire.
What are land grants?
This group of Nomadic Horsemen dominated Russia for almost 250 years and kept Russia from experiencing the early Renaissance.
Who are the Mongols?
What happened to the Ottoman Empire after Suleiman died?
His son took over/the empire shrunk/it only lasted 3-4 hundred years.
What is a mercenary?
What is a professional soldier paid for an army
What was the primary motivation for Qing dynasty China's military campaigns in central Eurasia?
What is Territory?
How did Akbar's successors continue his policy of cultural synthesis in the Mughal Empire?
By fostering an elite culture that was comfortable for both Hindus and Muslims
All of the following were a consequence of the Russian expansion from 1462-1795 EXCEPT which?
The establishment of the Trans-Siberian Railway
How did the Ottoman empire finally capture the city of Constantinople?
They dragged ships across to the harbor and attack.
About how many centuries did the Ottoman Empire last?
What is 6?
What was the most significant impact of the expansion of the Russian Empire and the Qing dynasty's conquest of central Eurasia on the region?
It resulted in the permanent elimination of nomadic pastoralists as a major actor on the historical stage
The man responsible for creating a taxation policy similar to today's income tax. It was fair and affordable and brought much needed $ to the government.
Who is Akbar's finance minister?