Europe
Ottoman
Safavid
Mughal
East Asia
100
What invention allowed Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible to expand the Russian Empire?
Gunpowder
100
Which empire was the Ottoman Empire? Why was its location economically advantageous?
Red One & Intersection of the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
100
Which empire was the Safavid Empire? Why was its location disadvantageous?
Teal/Blue & surrounded by other powerful empires with separate religious views
100
Which empire was the Mughal Empire?
Green Empire
100
Which Dynasty controls this land?
Qing Dynasty
200
This person protested the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church with his 95 statements.
Martin Luther
200
What branch of Islam was dominant in the Ottoman Empire?
Sunni Islam
200
What branch of Islam was dominant in the Safavid Empire?
Shia Islam
200
TRUE or FALSE: After Akbar's rise to power, the caste system in India was finally abolished.
FALSE
200
Both of these governments practiced seclusion/isolationism by limiting their peoples' contact with foreigners.
Ming Dynasty, Tokugawa Shogunate
300
William III & Mary II signed this document which greatly limited the English monarch's power in 1689.
English Bill of Rights
300
Elite corps of the Ottoman Empire’s standing army selected from among the Christian boys of the devshirme.
Janissaries
300
A Safavid ruler's title
Shah
300
What two religions were dominant in the Mughal Empire? Which was the majority of the population?
Hinduism (Majority) and Islam (Minority)
300
One way the Manchu exhibited their dominance over the other Chinese ethnic groups they ruled (think appearance)
Forced the men to cut their hair and wear it in the Manchu style (previously, Chinese men did not do this)
400
Nicolaus Copernicus is associated with the emergence of the ___ in Europe, a period in which people used evidence-gathering and observation to make theories and claims.
Scientific Revolution
400
This system allowed religious communities to have independent religious courts of law that governed their communities and independent school systems
Millet system
400
Had a major rivalry with which TWO other empires & why
Ottoman & Mughals-> religious differences
400
What was the name of the religion that emerged from the syncretic fusing of Hinduism and Islam?
Sikhism
400
What continuties can be seen in the Qing Dynasty?
Civil Service Exam
Confucianism
500
Louis XIV and Henry VIII are examples of ___ rulers.
Absolute/Absolutist
500
The Ottomans conquered and renamed this city and established it as their center of power. (BOTH NAMES REQUIRED).
Constantinople > Istanbul
500
Ousted this empire from the region when the Safavids took power
Timurid (founded by Tamerlane, was formerly the Il-Khanate of the Mongols)
500
These landowners collected taxes and ruled over their lands on behalf of the Mughal Empire
Zamindars
500
Describe ONE similarity between Japanese and European labor systems.
Feudalism