Gunpowder Empires
This empire, founded by Babur, was known for its wealth and cultural fusion in India.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This elite Ottoman military class was formed from Christian boys through the devshirme system.
Who are the Janissaries?
This Mughal ruler promoted religious tolerance and attempted a syncretic faith called Din-i Ilahi.
Who is Akbar the Great?
This Mughal building is a famous mausoleum symbolizing imperial power and love.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This Mughal emperor’s religious intolerance led to revolts and weakened the empire.
Who is Aurangzeb?
This battle in 1571 marked the Ottoman naval defeat to Spanish and Venetian forces.
What is the Battle of Lepanto?
These French officials collected taxes and enforced royal orders in the provinces.
Who are the intendants?
This term refers to the belief that a monarch’s right to rule comes from God.
What is divine right?
This French palace was used to control the nobility and display royal grandeur.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This system of private tax collection in the Ottoman Empire led to corruption and economic decline.
What is tax farming?
This empire used Shi’a Islam to unify its population, causing tension with its Sunni neighbors.
What is the Safavid Empire?
Peter the Great’s new Russian capital symbolizing modernization and Western influence.
What is St. Petersburg?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This leader made Shi’a Islam mandatory in the Safavid Empire.
Who is Shah Ismail I?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This Ottoman mosque built by Suleiman I showcases classical Islamic architecture.
What is the Suleymaniye Mosque?
This 17th-century conflict devastated Central Europe and ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
This ruler of the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453.
Who is Mehmed II?
(DAILY DOUBLE) These salaried Mughal officials collected taxes and later built personal power bases.
Who are the zamindars?
This Russian tsar abolished the Orthodox patriarch and created the Holy Synod.
Who is Peter the Great?
This Qing ruler commissioned court portraits and landscape gardens to reflect his authority.
Who is Emperor Kangxi?
This empire used a tribute system, but suffered from inflation and rebellion in the late 1500s.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This Turkic conqueror was known for brutal campaigns but also promoted arts and learning in Samarkand.
Who is Tamerlane?
This Japanese policy required daimyo families to live part-time in Edo as hostages.
What is the hostage system (or alternate attendance system)?
This West African ruler promoted Islam and bureaucracy in Songhai.
Who is Askia the Great?
This city was reshaped under Peter the Great to reflect European design and served as Russia’s new capital.
What is St. Petersburg?
These two empires fought over control of trade routes and had deep Sunni-Shi’a divisions.
What are the Ottoman and Safavid Empires?