Leaders
Sultan responsible for the Ottoman "Golden Era"
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
Marble tomb for a sultan's wife
What is the Taj Mahal?
City built by Peter the Great
What is St. Petersburg?
Elite Ottoman soldiers who trained like a modern army
What are Janissaries?
Christians and Jews paid this in return for Ottoman protection
What is the non-Muslim tax?
Mughal ruler who removed the non-Muslim tax
Who is Akbar the Great?
Famous church in Constantinople that became a mosque
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Empire that the Ottomans conquered after a siege on their capitol city
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Peter the Great's goal for Russia
What is westernization?
Ottoman tax that was their main income source
What is the shipping tax?
Czar/tsar who made Russians cut off their beards
Who is Peter the Great?
Thin towers that surround mosques
What are minarets?
Body of water connecting Mediterranean & Black Seas
What is the Bosphorus?
Main goal of Gunpowder Empires
What is expansion?
How Shah Jahan paid for the Taj Mahal
What are taxes?
Ruler's wife who ran the country & hunted tigers
Who is Nur Jahan?
Red sandstone fortress in Delhi
What is the Red Fort?
City on two different continents
What is Constantinople? (Istanbul counts too)
Peter the Great was part of this dynasty
What is the Romanov Dynasty?
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
Mughal ruler who imprisoned his father
Who is Aurangzeb?
Art museum that used to be Russian Winter Palace
What is the Hermitage?
Natural barrier preventing the Mughals from going into China
What are the Himalayas?
Ottoman system of enslaving Christian kids & giving them chance to become powerful
What is devshirme?
Result of Peter the Great's very high taxes
What are peasant revolts?