Geography
The continent the Ming Empire is located on.
What is Asia?
The title of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
Who is a Sultan?
When one dynasty is in decline, another dynasty would claim _____.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Belief system of the Ming Dynasty.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
Founder of the Ming Empire.
Who is Hongwu?
The continents the Ottoman Empire is located across?
What are Europe, Africa, and Asia?
To maintain the defense of his Empire, Hongwu expanded this.
What is the Great Wall?
Which dynasty was in decline BEFORE the rise of the Ming Dynasty?
Who are the Yuan?
He expanded the Ottoman Empire into Northern Africa and Europe.
Who is Sulieman?
First Ottoman ruler - from whom the term "Ottoman" is derived.
Osman
The capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
To maintain his power, Hongwu implemented the Jinyiwei. What are the Jinyiwei?
Who are "secret police"?
Which Empire did the Ottomans overtake in 1453?
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Major belief system of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Islam?
Chinese admiral who set sail on 7 voyages.
Who is Zheng He?
The two seas surrounding the Byzantine/Ottoman capital.
The name of the set of laws that Hongwu established to maintain power.
What is the Ming Code?
Because the Ottomans controlled trade routes that Europeans could not use, they indirectly caused this.
What is the Age of Exploration?
Under Suleiman, they were religious communities who followed own set of laws and practices and answered to the sultan
What are millets?
Sultan who began the Golden Age of the Ottoman Empire
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
The capital of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Istanbul?
These soldiers were young, Christian boys who pledged loyalty to the Sultan and fought as an armed military force
Who are the janissaries?
What time period came to an end with the death of Zheng He?
What is China's Age of Exploration?
In this Confucian system of relationships, the father owes protection and care to the son, who owes loyalty and obedience to the father.
What is filial piety?
Ogier de Busbecq was the author of this text which describes life in the Ottoman Empire
What are The Turkish Letters?