Architecture
This palace legitimized the rule of the French king and illustrated the concept of absolutism.
What is the Palace of Vesailles?
This empire used gunpowder to secure territory in the Middle East, with their capital in Istanbul
Who are the Ottoman Empire?
This major conflict was fought between Catholics and Protestants in Europe, resulting in wide-spread famine, starvation, and disease.
What was the 30 years war?
This religion was influenced by Sufism and was practiced during the Mughal Empire, which regcognized the rights of other faiths to exist and developed from Hinduism.
What is Sikhism?
Three empires that descended from Turkic nomads who once lived in Central Asia and relied on gunpowder weapons and cannons
Who were the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals?
This city legitimized the rule of the Ming and Qing Emperors.
What was the Forbidden City?
This practice used kidnapped Christain boys to serve the empire in roles such as religious scholars, scribes, palace attendants, and miltiary officers.
What is devshirme?
The Safavid Empire practiced this type of Islam.
What is Shi'a Islam?
This was a model for warrior life that blended the cooperative values of nomadic culture with the willingness to serve as a holy fighter for Islam
What was the ghazi ideal?
This empire controlled territory that is now Iran (Persia) and Iraq and used Shi'a as a unifying force
What was the Safavid Empire?
This mosque, found in Istanbul, is a symbol of Ottoman power during the "Golden Age" of which sultan?
Who is Suleiman the Magnificient?
This is a paramilitary force loyal to the ruler and used to control the nobility (the boyars).
What is the oprichnina?
This ruler used religious tolerance to rule his empire, blending Islam and Hinduism
Who was Akbar?
This city was once known as Constantinople before being conquered by Mehmed II
What is Istanbul?
The selling of these by the Catholic Church allowed for people to be absolved of any punishments for their sins
What are indulgences?
This empire used Imperial Portraits to legitimize the rule of their emperors.
Who are the Qing?
This goverment reorganized their country in order to centralize control over a feudal system, dividing the land into 250 different territories ruled by an independent daimyo.
What was the Tokugawa shogunate?
Established in the 1100s, it sought to root out and punsih nonbelievers, using torture to achieve its goals.
What was the Inquisition?
An elite force in the Ottoman Empire, indoctrinated to be fiercely loyal to the sultan and a way to gain upward mobility, despite being a slave.
What were Janissaries?
This is the idea that rulers recieve their right to rule from god
What is divine right? (divine right of kings)
This monument is an example of religious and cultural syncretism, with Islamic, Indian, and Persian architecture styles.
What is the Taj Mahal?
Both the Ottoman and Mughal Empires used this form of revunue raising practice.
What is tax farming?
A monk from Germany launched this reform effort that fundamentally changed and challenged the Roman Catholic Church forever.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
Mughal tax collectors
What were zamindars?
Rulers ruling over diverse populations (ethnic, religious, cultural) would use religion, art, and monumental architecture to secure this for their rule.
What is legitimacy?