Ottomans Look West (Ch 18)
What religion did the Turks follow?
Islam
Who claimed the throne after Bahadur Shah ruled for five years?
His son
English merchants banded together to form this big company
East India Company
What was the largest city in China at the time of Chi'en-lung?
Peking
What is the name of the huge dry desert in northern China?
Gobi Desert
What country is the last remnant of the huge Eastern empire of the Ottoman Turks?
Country of Turkey
How did Mohammad Shah spend most of his time?
Going to animal fights
Black Hole
What was Chi'en-lung doing by moonlight?
Copying a famous poem (by Zou Foulei)
What religion did most people of Chinese Turkestan follow?
Muslim (or Islam)
How did the Turkish soldiers try to get past Vienna's wall?
Tunnels underneath the walls.
What did the Persian ruler, Nadir Shah, use to attack India?
Camels and guns
What happened to 120 prisoners in Fort William's dungeon?
Died of suffocaton
What did Chi'en-lung do to make China's greatness known worldwide?
gather all of China's greatest literature together in one enormous collection
Mount Everest
What was the nickname given to Sultan Ahmet III?
Tulip King
Why Nadir Shah became angry with the court at Delhi
Because no one sent a messenger back to him
Who led the army of the East India Company?
General named Sir Robert Clive
What are two of the four categories of the most important books collected by the fourth Manchu emperor of China?
History, literature, philosophy, and classics
What small island lies off the coast of China?
Taiwan
What are two ways that Ahmet III and his grand vizier tried to make the Ottoman court more like courts of the West?
Sultan's palace was like French palace; ambassadors went to French cities and factories; learned more about European art and science; brought back printing press
Instead of an empire under one emperor, what had India become?
A group of little provinces ruled by petty kings
What happened to the last Moghul emperor?
The English took the emperor under their "protection" (he was their prisoner)
How many copies of the Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature were made? What did Chi'en-lung do with books that made unflattering remarks about the Manchu?
7 copies, he burned them
What two rivers were at the center of the Chinese empire?
The Yellow and Yangtze Rivers