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Cats 'n rugs, cats 'n rugs
100
Empire located in modern day India and Pakistan.
What is the Mughal Empire?
100
In this year, Columbus set sail for the Indies.
What is 1492?
100
Lasting 623 years, this empire dominated trade between Europe and Asia.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
100
He crowned himself tsar of all Russia.
Who is Ivan IV?
100
This empire is famous for its trade of ornamental rugs.
What is the Safavid Empire?
200
Descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan.
Who is Babur?
200
In 1440, this device sped up the production of books.
What is the printing press?
200
After suffering defeat in WWI, the Turkish movement for independence officially dissolved the Ottoman Empire in this year.
What is 1922?
200
He took the throne and conquered a large swath of land at only age 14.
Who is Peter the Great?
200
Sect of Islam most practiced in Persia.
What is shi'a?
300
Shah Akbar was the center of this religion.
What is Divine Faith?
300
In 1453, this empire lost control of Constantinople.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
300
This group was instrumental in capturing Constantinople.
What is the Janissaries?
300
Made up around 75% of Russia's population for most of the empire's history.
Who are serfs?
300
The empire with whom the Safavids spent most of their time battling over their western territory.
Whp are the Ottomans?
400
Mughal shah who overturned laws that allowed Hindus freedom to participate in government.
Who is Aurangzeb?
400
He established the Russian Orthodox Church after Constantinople fell.
Who is Ivan III?
400
At the height of its expansion, the Ottomans controlled all or most of these 5 bodies of water.
What are the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf?
400
Princes who lived around and controlled land in the Moscow territory
Who are the muscovites?
400
Ismail named his empire for a Shiekh of this sect of Islam know for its mysticism.
What is suffi?
500
In the early 1700s the Mughals were able to expand southward through most of modern day India except to the very tip which they could not conquer for this reason.
What is the (British) East India Company?
500
As a result of an invention in 1440, a shift in European religious practices happened known as this (and it was started by this man).
What is the Protestant Reformation and who is Martin Luther?
500
The Queen is to Prime Minister as Sultan is to this.
What is vizier?
500
Marks the end of the Russian Empire.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution?
500
He moved all Safavid power to Isfahan.
Who is Shah Abbas?