Expansion
This technology allowed empires to break through city walls.
What is gunpowder?
This concept justified a ruler’s authority as coming from God.
What is divine right?
This movement challenged the Catholic Church in Europe.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This empire ruled Persia and practiced Shi’a Islam.
What is the Safavid Empire?
This Ottoman system allowed religious groups to govern themselves.
What is the millet system?
All land-based empires relied on this for expansion.
What is gunpowder?
This type of empire used firearms to expand rapidly.
What is a gunpowder empire?
This group managed taxes, laws, and records.
What are bureaucrats?
This figure started the Reformation with the 95 Theses.
Who is Martin Luther?
This empire ruled India and had a Hindu majority.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This system took Christian boys and trained them for service.
What is devshirme?
This was a shared method of maintaining power.
What is taxation?
This empire captured Constantinople using cannons.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This system involved selling tax collection rights.
What is tax farming?
This division exists between two major branches of Islam.
What is Sunni vs Shi’a?
This Chinese dynasty was ruled by the Manchus.
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This group collected taxes in the Mughal Empire.
Who are zamindars?
This was the most common way rulers legitimized authority.
What is religion?
This was a major reason empires expanded their territory.
What is access to resources or trade routes
This Chinese system selected officials based on exams.
What is the civil service exam system?
This religious practice emphasized personal connection with God in Islam.
What is Sufism
This empire used Janissaries as elite soldiers.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This Japanese warrior class enforced Tokugawa rule.
What are samurai?
This was a major similarity in governance.
What is centralized bureaucracy?
This was a major internal challenge to expanding empires.
What is rebellion or resistance?
This French palace symbolized control over nobles.
What is Versailles?
This religion blended Hindu and Islamic beliefs.
What is Sikhism?
This empire expanded using Cossacks.
What is the Russian Empire?
This was a major challenge of ruling large empires.
What is managing diverse populations?
This was the most important shared challenge.
What is managing diversity or internal conflict?