Powerful Empires
This empire controlled territory in southeastern Europe, southwestern Asia, and northern Africa.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This city became the political center of Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What is Edo?
This French dynasty ruled France and worked to strengthen the power of the monarchy.
What is the Bourbon Dynasty?
These European groups traveled overseas to establish colonies and trading networks.
What are European maritime empires?
This empire was the largest land empire in the world and stretched across northern Eurasia.
What is the Russian Empire?
This empire ruled much of the Indian subcontinent and was known for producing valuable cotton textiles.
What is the Mughal Empire?
These powerful Japanese regional lords were controlled by the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Who are the daimyo?
This French king is strongly associated with absolute monarchy and the Palace of Versailles.
Who is Louis XIV?
The Mughal Empire became economically important partly because of its production of these valuable goods.
What are cotton textiles?
China was ruled by this dynasty around 1750.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
Both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires faced this challenge because they ruled over many different ethnic and religious groups.
What is governing a diverse population?
Under this system, daimyo were required to spend time in Edo, helping the shogun monitor them.
What is alternate attendance?
Louis XIV used this palace to keep powerful French nobles close to his royal court.
What is Versailles?
Tokugawa Japan allowed limited trade with this European country through the port of Nagasaki.
What is the Netherlands (Dutch)?
Ashanti, Benin, and Dahomey were powerful kingdoms located on this continent.
What is Africa?
This Ottoman system allowed religious communities to maintain some of their own laws and traditions.
What is the millet system?
The Tokugawa Shogunate restricted this type of influence because leaders feared it could threaten political stability.
What is foreign influence?
Both the Tokugawa Shogunate and Bourbon France used policies designed to control this group of powerful people.
What are regional elites, nobles, or powerful leaders?
Unlike Japan, the Mughal Empire generally remained more ________ to foreign merchants and international trade.
What is open?
Which was generally larger in geographic size: the Russian Empire or the kingdom of Dahomey?
What is the Russian Empire?
Explain one way the Ottoman or Mughal Empire maintained control over its large and diverse population.
What is using religious tolerance or systems that allowed different groups to maintain traditions while remaining under central authority?
Why did the Tokugawa Shogunate limit the power of the daimyo?
What is to prevent rebellion and strengthen centralized control?
How were Edo and Versailles similar in helping their governments maintain power?
What is both served as political centers that helped rulers monitor and control powerful elites while strengthening centralized government?
What was one major consequence of European involvement in regions such as India and Africa?
What is European powers gained greater economic and political influence, or the Atlantic slave trade expanded and disrupted African societies?
Why does the physical size of an empire or kingdom not always determine how powerful it is?
What is smaller states could still have significant military, economic, political, or regional power?