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Akbar had this place built in the Mughal empire as part of his campaign to unite Hindu and Islamic peoples.
What is the House of Worship?
This emperor fought another Empire for control of a waterway and was obsessed with facial hair.
Who was Peter the Great?
This empire claims Chinggis, Timur, and Babur as its ancestors and founder.
What is the Mughal Empire?
What is the biggest motive for Moscow's rise?
Prevention of another Mongol attack
This empire constructed massive, lavish sun temples that were plated with gold for their rituals that was their primary method of controlling the people with authority.
What is the Inca?
Aurangzeb's actions as emperor weakened the Mughal Empire just in time for which group to take advantage of the chaos?
Who are the British?
The Qing Dynasty forbade this legal act between people groups while still tolerating their existence.
What is intermarriage?
This imperial leader gained the right to call themselves the champion of Islam and thus had the right to call for official jihad against enemies of the faith.
Who is the Ottoman Sultan?
The ethnically Han Chinese were controlled by this group of outsiders during the Qing Dynasty Era.
Who are the Manchus/Manchurians?
This is the Empire of all the Land Based Empires that lasted the longest, in terms of never losing control of its lands, outlasting all other Empires in our class until it's collapse.
What is the Russian Empire? [1991]
This was meant to be an insult slung at the Ottoman Empire regarding their beliefs around gender by other Islamic factions.
What is the "Sultanate of Women?"
This practice was ended by a farsighted Mughal emperor and helped to improve quality of life for half of the Hindu population.
What is the sati?
This was a concept of giving power that almost all land based empires took from their Mongol-based histories that helped stabilize them against corruption.
What is meritocracy?
This was the rough size of India's population that was directly angered by Aurangzeb's policies.
What is 80% of India?
Much like the Abbasid Caliphate before them, the Safavids and the Ottomans used this to help deal with internal and external threats, but unlike the Abbasids, never lost their loyalty.
What is a slave army?
What religious group did the Russian state ever show tolerance to?
Who are Muslims?
This was the central system used by the Aztecs to exert power and authority over their subjugated peoples.
What is Tribute?
This central question has and still defines the existential crisis of Russia as a nation since it's birth from Moscow.
Is Russia Asian or European?
This China obtained Mongolia, Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Tibet under its direct control.
Who are the Qing?
This environmental event helped the Qing take over China, caused the collapse of most North American civilizations, and also caused crop failures in Europe, helping the Ottomans carve out more of the Christian world.
What is the Little Ice Age?
This was the one group that the Ottoman Empire rivaled with, never tolerating except as pilgrims.
Who are Shia Muslims?
This Emperor is regarded as one of the greatest in Ming history and sent out a certain Eunuch's voyages.
Who is Yongle?
This Catholic power found itself allying with the Ottoman empire on more than one occasion.
What is France?
The Ming's choice to stop sending out expeditions would eventually cause this group to seize the opportunity and take control of the Indian Ocean.
Who are the Portuguese?
What languished and died under Qing and Russian control?
What is the Silk Road?