When in China
If in Beijing, take an hour drive and walk along this, the largest manmade structure in the world which protected China's northern border.
What is the Great Wall?
The Protestant Reformation began with Martin Luther in what would be this nation today, although then, it was a collection of several different kingdoms.
What is Germany?
Russia began a little behind its Western European counterparts in part because this Asian-based group made them part of the far-flung empire for many years.
Who are the Mongols?
Peter the Great put heavy taxes on his people, so he could build up this in Russia, which would allow it to have a stronger presence on the sea. Western European nations like the French and British had them.
What is a navy?
Sultan Shah Jahan built this to memorialize and provide a final resting place for his beloved wife. While it has a mosque on its campus, it is not a mosque itself but a mausoleum.
What is the Taj Mahal?
If you stay awhile, why not register to take this? Maybe, you can land a good job as a bureaucrat.
What is the civil service exam?
This nation remained staunchly Catholic. They used the Inquisition to investigate "los conversos" and sent Jesuit missionaries to their colonies in Central and South America.
What is Spain?
He is the czar who is credited with modernizing Russia, modeling his empire on the Western European nations he so admired. Men, you better not be caught with a beard in his presence.
Who is Peter the Great?
The French paid heavy taxes under Louis not just to finance his pleasure palace at Versailles, but because he kept getting France involved in these.
What are wars?
These structures in Protestant areas of Europe became noticeably plain-looking as Protestant leaders wanted to purify them of distracting paintings and sculptures.
What are churches?
You may want to read up on this essential philosophy, which stresses the duties and virtues toward family members and the government.
What is Confucianism?
This nation is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church today. While it is in Italy, it is technically its own nation.
What is Vatican City?
They are Russian nobles, and while most remained wealthy and influential, they gradually lost power as the czars established a bureaucracy of middle-class Russians.
Who are the boyars?
Zamindars were used by this Islamic empire, which ruled India from 1526 - 1857.
What is the Mughal Empire?
High up in the Andes, the Incas built this place, which has holy structures that correspond to astronomical events like solstices and equinoxes.
What is Machu Picchu?
Make sure to buy a piece of this luxurious and artistic pottery if you have the money. It is prized around the world.
What is porcelain?
The Edict of Nantes and Huguenots lived here. Too bad Louis XIV revoked the edict, because it meant so-long to the Huguenots.
What is France?
The city became the new capital of the Russian Empire in 1712. The czar who established this revamped city even named it after himself.
What is St. Petersburg?
What are gold and salt?
The Templo Mayor was built in this Central American city, where the Aztecs offered sacrifices to both their gods of war and rain.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Too bad you cannot visit this, Admiral Zheng-He's fleet of ships. They helped to build a tributary empire for Ming China but were burned afterward.
What is the Grand Fleet?
This nation unwittingly joined the Protestant Reformation for the wrong reasons. Its Parliament made its king, Henry VIII, head of its own church so he could be granted a divorce from his first wife.
What is England?
One of the two seas, beginning with the letter "B", where Russia won warmer-water ports. Prior to these, Russia's only port had been in the White Sea, a cold-water port near the Arctic.
What is the Baltic Sea or the Black Sea?
The expression for tax collection in the Ottoman Empire was called this, because a local leader of an agricultural area collecting taxes from people working the land and paying it to the central government. Of course, he kept some for himself, too.
What is tax-farming?
This is a mosque built in Istanbul named after the most "Magnificent" sultan in Ottoman history.
What is the Suleyman Mosque?