Vocabulary
A body of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
This is who a primary/secondary source is intended for.
Who is the audience?
This is the primary religion of the Ottoman Empire.
What is Islam?
This is the primary religion of the Mughal Empire.
What is Islam?
The hereditary military/political dictator of Japan from the 18th-19th century.
What is a shogun?
Why something was created; reason why something was done.
What is purpose?
A source that comes directly from the time period being studied.
What is a primary source?
This is the name of the elite, Christian-born soldiers under the Ottoman Empire.
What is a janissary?
This is the present-day country/subcontinent where the Mughal Empire ruled.
What is India?
A chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
a group of once separate areas ruled by a single person or government
What is an empire?
These are problems seen throughout history and civilizations. Each civilization addresses these problems with varying degrees of success.
What are enduring issues?
This city was taken over by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.
What is Constantinople/Istanbul?
That is Hinduism?
Not allowing something (this term was applied to Christians in Japan by 1635).
What is forbidden?
To bring together; unite.
What is consolidate?
A textbook excerpt published in 2004 discussing the events of World War II would be an example of this.
What are secondary sources?
These communities were established to allow religious minorities to maintain some self-control.
What are millets?
Both the Ottoman & Mughal empires practiced this towards religious minorities to maintain control & keep them happy.
What is religious tolerance?
The Tokugawa Shogunate often forced this social class to constantly visit the capital in Edo to maintain control over them.
What is a daimyo?
A person sent to promote a religion in a foreign place.
What is a missionary?
This is the practice of studying the background information (e.g. Who; What; When; Where; Why) of a historical topic.
What is contextualization?
This system was a form of taxation placed on Christians in the Ottoman Empire. Taxes typically came in the form of taking a family's first-born son.
What was the Devshrime System?
This Mughal emperor ended decades of religious tolerance towards Hindus and other religious minorities.
Who was Aurangzeb?
This is the term for a leader who holds a title but possesses no real power (like the emperor of Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate).
What is a figurehead?