Chapter 17 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
Ottomans (p. 412)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
shah (p. 416)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
sultan (p. 413)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
viziers (p. 415)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
devshirme (p. 416)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
janissaries (p. 416)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
concubine (p. 416)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
Safavid (p. 416)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
Qizilbash (p. 417)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
ulama (p. 417)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
Mughal (p. 417)
sepoys (p. 429)
Identify and explain the significance of the:
sepoys (p. 429)
How were the three Islamic empires established, and what sorts of governments did they set up? (p. 412)
What cultural advances occurred under the rule of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires? (p. 419)
How did Christians, Jews, Hindus, and other non-Muslims fare under these Islamic states? (p. 425)
How were the Islamic empires affected by the gradual shift toward trade routes that bypassed their lands? (p. 426)
What common factors led to the decline of central power in the Islamic empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? (p. 430)
In what sense were the states of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals empires rather than large states? Do all three equally deserve the term “empire”? Why or why not?
How did the expansion of European presence in the Indian Ocean after1450 impinge on the societies and economies of each of the Islamic empires?
What made it possible for Islamic rulers to tolerate more religious difference than European Christian rulers of the same period did (Chapters 14 and 15)?
Reign of Osman, founder of the Ottoman Dynasty
Ottoman Empire
1299-1326
Ottoman Empire
1299-1922
Life of Timur
1336-1405
Italian Renaissance
ca. 1350-1520