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The Ottoman Sunnis clash constantly with the Safavids. The Safavids were what denomination of Islam?
Shia
Which emperor built the Taj Mahal?
Shah Jahan
Fluyts were cost-effective cargo ships associated with which colonial empire?
The Dutch
Which empire defeated the Aztecs and the Incas?
The Spanish
The British East India Company came to dominate what regions?
South Asia, India
What was the system of recruitment method called in the Ottoman Empire to fill its elite Janissary military and administrative ranks?
Bonus: Who are the Janissaries?
Devshirme
Which empire took over the Mali empire as the main Islamic power in West Africa?
Songhai Empire
What is a triangular sail that allowed ships to tack against the wind, increasing maneuverability?
Lateen Sail
The Spanish set up this New World feudalism system called what?
Encomienda System
Who took over modern day Indonesia and dominated the Indian Ocean Trade via the spice trade?
The Dutch East India Company (VOC)
In the Ottoman Empire, what was a system where the government would auction off the right to collect taxes in a specific area to the highest bidder?
Tax Farming
What does Sakoku mean in the context of the Tokugawa Shogunate?
Closed Country or Locked Country. It meant the policy of Japanese isolation.
This device in the Age of Exploration enabled sailors to determine latitude at sea, improving navigational accuracy.
Astrolabe
What were some of the cash crops the Spanish exploited in the New World? And what kinds of metals did they mine?
Bonus: where did the mining take place mostly?
Sugar, coffee; silver
Bonus: Potosi, Mexico
What enabled so many different foods, animals, and diseases to cross oceans for the first time after 1492?
The Columbian Exchange
Which Indian Empire was Muslim, known as a gunpowder empire, and ruled over a Hindu Majority?
Bonus: What kind of Islam did these emperors (by and large) practice?
Mughal
Sikhism which took teachings from Hinduism and Islam, was born in which empire?
Bonus: who founded Sikhism?
Mughal
Bonus: Guru Nanak
Who earned the title "the Navigator" for his role in organizing and directing these explorations, which led to Portugal becoming a major world power?
Prince Henry
What was the name of the Virgin Mary in Mexico and the Americas, known for its influence in converting indigenous peoples to Catholicism?
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Queen Nanny of the Maroons rose up against who in Jamaica?
The British
Why was Akbar the Great called the Great?
Religious tolerance
Akbar was the third Mughal emperor
The caravel ships were associated most with which countries during the Age of Exploration?
Portuguese and Spanish
Which empire started the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
The Portuguese
What were government sponsored monopolies called where anyone could invest? Two examples: British East India Trading Company and the Dutch VOC.
Joint-Stock Companies
Which empire did Queen Nzinga fight in Ndongo and Matamba (modern day Angola)?
The Portuguese