Religion & Belief Systems
This Confucian value requires people to honor and respect their parents and elders.
What is filial piety?
These highly trained Ottoman soldiers became experts in using guns and artillery.
Who were the Jannsaries?
This Chinese dynasty began when Han Chinese forces overthrew the Mongol-led Dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This medieval economic system centered on self-sufficient agricultural estates where peasants produced most necessities locally.
This intellectual movement emphasized an individual’s potential, education, and achievement.
What was humanism?
This term describes the places where Muslims can worship peacefully.
What is Dar al-Islam?
This special tax was paid by non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire
What was the jizya tax?
This precious metal was required for paying taxes under both the Ming and Qing dynasties.
What is silver?
This Church punishment cut people off from the sacraments and was believed to threaten their salvation.
What was excommunication?
This invention allowed Protestant reformers to spread their ideas quickly to a wide audience.
What was the printing press?
According to this Chinese belief, an unjust ruler could lose heaven’s approval, making rebellion and a new dynasty legitimate.
What is the Mandate of Heaven
Unlike the Sunni Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire followed this branch of Islam.
What was Shi’a Islam?
These kinds of states showed their submission to the Chinese emperor by giving gifts and performing the kowtow.
What were tributary states?
Under this medieval political and social system, land was exchanged for loyalty and military service.
What was feudalism?
French Protestants who followed Calvin’s teachings were known by this name.
Who were Huguenots?
This concept represents the balance between complementary opposites
What is yin and yang?
This Mogul emperor ended the jizya and allowed Hindus to serve in government.
Who was Akbar?
These powerful Japanese landowners controlled large estates and commanded their own armies before Japan’s unification.
Who were daimyo?
The shortage of workers caused by this deadly 14th-century disease helped weaken European feudalism.
What was the Black Death?
He started the Anglican Church.
Who was King Henry VIII?
This hierarchy describes the social structure of Hinduism.
This Mogul emperor imposed stricter Islamic policies
Who was Aurangzeb?
Despite their wealth, members of this class held the lowest position in Tokugawa society because they profited from the labor of others.
Who were merchants?
A series of wars between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land.
What were the Crusades?
This decree ended the French Wars of Religion and granted important rights to Protestants in France.
What was the Edict of Nantes?