Vocab
Expanding territory or authority is called gaining this.
What is power?
This Ottoman ruler, known as “The Lawgiver,” led the empire during its Golden Age.
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
The Ottoman ruler was called this.
What is a Sultan?
This Ming admiral led seven treasure voyages across the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
This religion began in India and teaches karma, dharma, and reincarnation.
What is Hinduism?
Strengthening control after gaining power is called this.
What is consolidation of power?
A military strategy that surrounds a city to force surrender.
What is siege warfare?
This Ottoman system allowed Christians and Jews to follow their own laws.
What is the Millet System?
These large fleets demonstrated Ming power to foreign states.
What are treasure fleets?
This major change in early human history happened when people began farming and settling in permanent villages instead of hunting and gathering.
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
A system of government officials who carry out laws and policies.
What is a bureaucracy?
Large gunpowder weapons used to break city walls.
What is artillery?
The Ming government selected officials using these exams.
What are Civil Service Exams?
The Ming diplomatic system where other states brought tribute.
What is the tributary system?
This 200-year period of peace and prosperity in the Roman Empire helped trade, roads, and culture spread across the empire.
What is the Pax Romana?
Monitoring people to prevent rebellion or threats to the government.
What is surveillance?
A defensive military structure such as a wall or fortress used to protect a city or border.
What is a fortification?
The Ming belief system emphasizing hierarchy and obedience.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
The Ottomans gained wealth by controlling these important routes.
What are trade routes?
This Roman system of government allowed citizens to elect representatives to make laws.
What is a republic?
A written system of laws used to govern a society.
What is a legal code?
This 1453 event showed how siege warfare and artillery could defeat even the strongest city defenses.
What is the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople?
This Ottoman elite military force was loyal directly to the Sultan.
Who are the Janissaries?
The Ming believed their empire was the center of civilization, known as this.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
This Macedonian leader conquered a huge empire and spread Greek culture across Asia, Egypt, and Persia.
Who is Alexander the Great?