Vocabulary
Having or showing a willingness to act dishonestly in return for money or personal gain.
What is corrupt?
The Safavids were primarily located in this historic region, embodying this culture.
What is Persia/Persian?
The original founders of the Mughal Empire were descendants of this great conqueror.
Who was Genghis Khan and the Mongols?
The Ming Dynasty replaced this "foreign" dynasty that came before them.
Who were the Yuan Dynasty (aka the Mongols)?
The Mughal Empire began here.
What was Northern India?
Title of a king/emperor in the Safavid and Mughal Empires.
What was a Shah?
This commodity created in Safavid workshops were (and still are) the most valuable in the world.
What are carpets?
This was built as a mausoleum (among other purposes) for Mumtaz Mahal, but it truly is a symbol of the greatness of the Mughal Empire.
What is the Taj Mahal?
What was a peasant?
The east coast of China (it's only coast) borders this ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A building where Muslims worship.
What is a mosque?
This became the capital of the Safavid Empire because it was closer to the Persian Gulf, river sources, the Silk Trade networks, and further east of the Ottoman threat.
What was Isfahan?
The Mughal Empire governed largely over this majority religious population of India (which still is today).
What is Hindu?
The capital of the Ming Dynasty, it still is today.
What is Beijing?
Agra, the location of the Taj Mahal is located in the is region of India.
What is north-central India?
When one leader dies, the process of selecting and filling the position with their replacement. It was a major issue in some of these empires when there were multiple competing heirs.
What is succession?
Safavid decline was made worse by famine due to rising cost of this, which also led to rebellions.
What was bread?
Although they tried, the Mughals were never fully able to conquer this region of the Indian subcontinent.
What is the southern region?
He was the Muslim Ming admiral that led the 7 journeys of the Treasure Fleets to Indonesia, India, the Arabian Peninsula and the east coast of Africa.
Who was Zheng He?
The Ming (and other Chinese dynasties) had the Great Walls built to protect from these Northern and Western invaders.
Who were the Mongols and nomadic Turks?
To bring under control, usually through conquering.
What is to subordinate?
The Safavid leaders followed this type of Islam, which was formed right after the death of Muhammed and comprise about 20% of the population of Muslims today.
What is Shia, in the plural Shiite?
They would be the first Europeans to arrive entirely by sea to demand direct access to the spices of India. The also had high expectations of attempting to convert people in India to Roman Catholic Catholicism.
Who were the Portuguese?
What is Beijing?
The Indian subcontinent is located in the center of this ocean's trade network.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The art and practice of negotiating, and of cooperating among different nations or kingdoms.
What is diplomacy?
Decline in the quality of leaders in the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires because they were more interested in life in the palace and harem than life "in the saddle" meant they were not interested or skilled at this.
What was conquering and warfare?
This Mughal leader is noted as "the great" because he conquered vast territories, and was very tolerant to different religions, bringing together scholars from the various faiths to learn from one another.
Who was Akbar the Great?
The Ming leaders that came to power after the death of Zheng He did this to the Treasure Fleet.
What was destroyed the ships and ended the voyages because they felt they were wasteful.
A narrow waterway that connects two larger bodies of water.
What is a straight?
A payment for the privilege to trade in a foreign country or kingdom.
What is tribute?
This body of water in the northern portion of what was the Safavid Empire was vital to their trade networks.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This European company was the first to take direct control over cities and areas in India.
What was the British East India Company?
The cooperation of the Chinese government and multiple museums with the British Museum to create the exhibit with Ming artifacts from 1400-1450 to England is an example of this.
What is diplomacy?
Admiral Zheng He and his treasure fleet extensively traded along this coast of Africa, named the Swahili coast.
What is the east coast of Africa?