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100
This person implemented policies of religious tolerance in the Mughal Empire.
Who is Akbar the Great?
100
This system gave the shoguns real political power, and they used a strict social hierarchy and concentrated land ownership in the hands of a few daimyo in order to maintain power.
What is centralized feudalism? (in Japan)
100
The event that increased European desire for goods
What is the Crusades?
100
This policy forbade Japanese citizens from leaving the country.
What is isolationism?
100
The period in European history where there was no new learning or centralized government
What is the Dark Ages?
200
This person implemented the jizya tax and destroyed Hindu temples in Mughal India.
Who is Aurangzeb?
200
The idea that a country's power is based on its wealth.
What is mercantilism?
200
Return to studying Ancient Greece and Rome
What is the Renaissance?
200
This crop led to a population increase in Europe because it provided many poor people with nutritious food to eat.
What is the potato?
200
This event happened after the Renaissance and challenged the idea of religion
What is the Scientific Revolution?
300
This person expanded Chinese influence around the globe.
Who is Zheng He?
300
This religion is based off honoring the five key relationships and respecting your elders.
What is Confucianism?
300
The result of European diseases arriving in the Americas
What is the decline of the Native American population?
300
The policy of being open to all religious.
What is religious tolerance?
300
The ideas of Muslim thinkers and scientists helped this event to occur.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
This group of people held the real power in Tokugawa Japan.
Who are the shoguns?
400
The spread of goods, animals, food products, and diseases between the New World and the Old World during the Age of Exploration?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
The major development between 1450 and 1750
What is the rise of the first truly global trade network?
400
These people were not allowed in Japan or China.
Who are Christian missionaries?
400
Desire for gold, to spread Christianity, and rivalries with other European states led to this period in history.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
These people were kidnapped Christian boys who were trained to serve in the Ottoman military.
Who are the Janissaries?
500
System of forced labor in the Spanish colonies.
What is encomienda?
500
This series of events was a religious war between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land.
What is the Crusades?
500
The name given to the period of colonization by Maritime Empires.
What is the Age of Exploration?
500
Without ideas from the East, this event would not have been possible in Europe.
What is the Renaissance?
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