Geography
A large peninsula, surrounded by the Indian Ocean on three sides and the Himalayan Mountains to the north.
What is India?
The ruler of the Ottoman Empire, who ruled with absolute power.
What is a sultan?
A social/political system were land and protection were exchanged for service and loyalty.
What is feudalism?
People who travel to other countries to try and convert others to their religion.
What are missionaries?
Professional warriors who followed the code of bushido (courage, loyalty, honor).
What are samurai?
A mountainous archipelago (series of islands) in Asia with few natural resources.
What is Japan?
The greatest Ottoman sultan. He expanded the empire, experienced a golden age, and created a fair law code and tax system.
Who is Suleiman the Magnificent?
The military dictator of Japan who held the actual power to govern Japan.
What is shogun?
Allowing people to practice different religions without punishment.
What is religious tolerance? (Or freedom of worship).
This empire declined due to costly wars and lavish spending, revolts from religious minorities, and growing European influence.
What is the Mughal Empire?
The large capital city of the Byzantime Empire, located at a key trade crossroads; captured by the Ottomans in 1453 (later called Istanbul).
What is Constantinople?
A major Mughal emperor who expanded the empire and promoted religious tolerance.
Who is Akbar the Great?
A system where one ruler holds complete and total political power.
What is absolutism?
The polytheistic native religion of Japan where spirits known as Kami live in nature.
What is Shinto?
This empire declined due to poor leadership, changing trade routes, and military defeats by strong neighbors.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
The peninsula in modern-day Turkey where the Ottoman Empire began.
A later Mughal emperor who reinstated taxes on non-Muslims and fought costly wars.
Who is Aurangzeb?
Powerful landholding nobles who commanded armies of samurai.
What are daimyo?
The majority religion of India.
What is Hinduism?
An elite group of full-time, professional Ottoman soldiers. Originally made up of slaves.
What are janissaries?
A very diverse southeastern region of Europe.
What is the Balkans?
The warlord who unified Japan and became shogun in 1603, ending the Sengoku period.
Who is Tokugawa? (Tokugawa Ieyasu)
When a country seals itself off from the outside world.
What is isolationism (or the Closed Country policy)?
Japan’s cultural golden age, when poetry, art, and literature flourished.
What is the Heian Period?
A famous white-marble tomb in Agra built in the 1600s; a landmark of Mughal architecture.
What is the Taj Mahal?