Russia's origins
Ming Dynasty
Romanovs
Other land based empires
Names other vocabulary
100
Ivan I (the Great) freed Muscovy and the surrounding areas that would become Russia from these people at the end of the 15th century.
Who were the Mongols (Golden Horde portion of their empire?
100
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) replaced this Mongol dynasty after its decline and a period of warring and disorder
What was the Yuan Dynasty?
100
Over 90% of Russia's population in the 15th to 18th centuries were this social class on the feudal pyramid.
Who were serfs?
100
Tokugawa Shogunate, 1603-1868.
What is Japan?
100
Sino, Franco, Anglo, Russo
What are Chinese, French, English, and Russian?
200
Cities along this northern European trade route grew in northwestern portions of what become Russia.
What is the Hanseatic Trade Network?
200
The first Ming Emperor, Hongwu was from a poor peasant family, this was what happened to them.
What is they all died from famine?
200
Russian nobles.
Who were Boyars?
200
Northwest Africa, beginning of 15th to beginning of 17th centuries.
What is the Songhai Empire?
200
Russia presently claims a principality that borders this sea, with Poland to the south and Lithuania to the north of this Russian land.
What is the Baltic Sea?
300
The portion of what became the Russian empire that is west of the Ural Mountains is considered part of this continent/culture.
What is Europe/European?
300
Origins of this artwork and Chinese commodity predate the Ming, but foreign demand for it and production of it increases incredibly during their dynasty. 
What is porcelain (blue and white, especially)?
300
Creating a new capital to legitimize rule was also a thing rulers did to centralize their power. Location was very important. This became the Russian Empire's capital until Peter the Great moved it. It was restored as the capital after the Russian Revolution.
What was St. Petersburg?
300
Persia, present day Iran, Isfahan is their capital, Silk Trade Network location.
What was the Safavid Empire/Dynasty?
300
This technology is what is going to make some of these empires able to conquer others that don't have it, as much of it, or the same tools with which to use its incendiary properties.
What is gunpowder?
400
Ivan I married an heir to this dynasty that had now fallen to the Ottoman Turks, to establish legitimacy and connections to Rome.
What was the Byzantine Empire?
400
This addictive commodity, native to China would be introduced to Europe through Dutch merchants, and to England by a Portuguese princess who was married to an English prince.
What is tea?
400
Ivan the Terrible did not trust the Boyars (he had good reason...) so he had state policy instituted to take power away from Boyars he didn’t trust (like the Tsar’s medieval secret police) to seize Boyars land, execute many Boyars to keep them in their place and in fear of the Czar.
What is the Oprichnina?
400
West coast of South America, extensive road system, Mi'ta labor system, Machu Picchu.
Who were the Inca?
400
The overthrow or renunciation of one government or ruler and the substitution of another by the governed or a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something
What is a revolution?
500
This peninsula on the Black Sea has been territory taken by the Ukraine, Russian Empire, USSR and presently was reinvaded by Russia. They're still there.
What is the Crimean Peninsula?
500
Ming Admiral Zheng He (who was Muslim) led 7 different voyages of the treasure fleet between 1404-1433 to East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Indonesia and coastal India before he died and they were both discontinued and destroyed. His religious upbringing and knowledge were significant for this reason.
What is he was literate and educated in Arabic because he was Muslim, and many of the places they went to were largely Muslim, allowing for greater understanding (communication) and diplomacy with that common aspect.
500
In his effort to westernize/modernize the Russian Empire he went on a "Grand Embassy" to travel and learn ship building techniques, military technology as well as to recruit scholars and experts to come back to Russia. He spent a lot of time in Amsterdam and London in particular.
Who was Czar Peter the Great?
500
Indian subcontinent, claimed they were descended from Genghis Khan. Conquered the Delhi Sultanate and other Indian kingdoms. They were Muslim leaders who governed over a largely Hindu population, so tolerance was necessary for success.
What was the Mughal Empire?
500
The historical region of northern Germany bordering on the Baltic Sea, it would be a military (land army) leader and also lead the effort at German Unification in the mid 19th century.
What is Prussia?
600
Ivan I brought Byzantine traditions including this denomination of Christianity and its clerical hierarchy to Moscow.
What is the Eastern (will also be called Russian) Orthodox Church?
600
Population growth occurred during the Ming Dynasty due to the introduction of these crops that had originated in the Americas and now were thriving in China (3)?
What are potatoes, corn and yams (sweet potatoes)?
600
Russian parliament, dominated by nobility and clergy, with very minimal commoner representation. Similar to France and elsewhere in Europe, there were 3 estates with the vast majority of power and wealth in the first two, who were the nobility and clergy. They made up a tiny portion of the massive population and held the majority of political, economic and religious control over the people.
What was the Zemskii Sobor?
600
This empire existed from 1299-1918 in the Balkans, Anatolia, the Levant and parts of North Africa.
Who were the Ottoman Turks?
600
a group of people who speak a branch of the Indo-European language family, and primarily inhabit Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and parts of Central Asia; including ethnicities like Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians (East Slavs), Poles, Czechs, Slovaks (West Slavs), and Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians (South Slavs)
Who are Slavic people?
700
These multi-ethnic peoples (many of whom escaped serfdom) in the Russian Empire tended to live on the borderlands, were pastoral, and made up major portions of the Russian Army (they were excellent on horseback/cavalry).
Who were the Cossacks?
700
These northern invaders would unite (the were called Jurchen) and take over when the Ming lost the Mandate of Heaven. Unlike the Mongols under the Yuan, they ruled in the Confucian traditional Chinese fashion, while also assimilating aspects of the northern culture into court life.
Who were the Manchu/Qing Dynasty?
700
Ivan the Terrible had this cathedral built not to demonstrate piety, but to commemorate his victories in war. 
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?
700
Present day Mexico City was the capital, at that time it was called Tenochtitlan.
Who were the Aztec Empire?
700
Revolutionary era in Europe that occurred at the same time as the land-empires we are learning about, officially beginning in 1517 after Martin Luther posted his 95 Thesis that listed grievances with the Papacy, including mass and the Bible in the vernacular, criticism of church wealth and corruption, clerical chastity requirements, just to name a few. This unleashed a multitude of denominations of Christianity, migrations of European people, wealth, land ownership, warfare and political alliances.
What was the Protestant Reformation?