Unit 3 (1450 - 1750)

Question 1

Qing Dynasty

Answer 1

• Final Dynasty in the Chinese Empire

Question 2

Manchus

Answer 2

Group that defeated the Ming Dynasty and established the Qing dynasty

Question 3

Mughal Empire

Answer 3

Islamic empire that ruled most of South Asia during the Gunpowder Era
- had religious tolerance and therefore became prosperoud
- established to rise against Delhi Sultanate

Question 4

Ottoman Empire

Answer 4

Large islamic empire that rose to power after the fall of Byzantine empire

Question 5

Safavids

Answer 5

Turkic ruled Islamic Empire

Question 6

Songhai

Answer 6

Ruled by Askia the Great…economic prosperity through the sahara (empire was significantly expanded through Sunni Ali and Askia)

Question 7

Devshirme

Answer 7

Ottoman Empire practice where young Christian boys became slaves of the Sultan
- Received high education and nice conditions

Question 8

Janissary

Answer 8

Ottoman system that forced Christian boys to serve in the military

Question 9

Samurai

Answer 9

Served the rulers in Tokugawa Japan but had to prove their loyalty, later became bureaucrats

Question 10

Divine Right

Answer 10

Belief that emerged in Europe that god stays out of daily life but rather has a predetermining factor (fate)
- the idea that European monarchs were gods representation on Earth

Question 11

Absolute Monarchy

Answer 11

Ruling in Europe where the leader had total power over the people

Question 12

Versailles

Answer 12

Constructed by Luis XIV to celebrate his wealth and reign as well as to subdue his nobles

Question 13

Zamindars

Answer 13

In the Mughal Empire, aristocrats that had huge plots of land and power over their peasants
- Once India was colonized by Britain, they became tax collectors

Question 14

Taj Mahal

Answer 14

Tomb built by Mughal Shah (Shah Jahan) to honor his late wife
- a blend of Muslim and Hindu architecture and art

Question 15

Tax Farming

Answer 15

Used by the Ottomans, the government used tax collectors who were bound by contract

Question 16

Protestant Reformation

Answer 16

Religious that swept across Europe in the 1500s that divided Catholicism into different strands

Question 17

95 Thesis

Answer 17

Written by Martin Luther, fueled Church reform
- Limited the power of the Pope

Question 18

Martin Luther

Answer 18

German Monk who wrote the 95 thesis
- wanted Church reform
Beliefs:
- Bible = sole authority
- Diminished power of the priests
- Translate Bible TO GERMAN

Question 19

Counter/Catholic Reformation

Answer 19

After the protestant reformation, Catholic Church limited the protestants by reforming Catholicism and prosecution

Question 20

Jesuits

Answer 20

Society of Jesus… started to limit the spread of Protestants (1491 - 1556)

Question 21

Indulgence

Answer 21

The idea of buying your way into heaven, originated in Germany
- added to the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 22

Simony

Answer 22

Buying and selling of Church offices

Question 23

Inquisition

Answer 23

A Roman Catholic tribune of prosecution of heresy

Question 24

Thirty Years War

Answer 24

Religious War between Roman catholics and German protestants
- Broke Holy Roman Empire and allowed germans to decide their own religion

Question 25

John Calvin

Answer 25

Religious reformer who believed in societal morality and predestination (fate)

Question 26

Sikhism

Answer 26

Combined Hinduism and Islam to form a monotheistic religion in Northern India
- changed the gender heirarchy of Islam as well as the Hindu Caste system

Question 27

Shogunate

Answer 27

Leader in Tokugawa Japan

Question 28

Daimyo

Answer 28

Lord of the Shogun who worked and collected taxes from peasants and farmers

Question 29

Jizya

Answer 29

Tax in the Ottoman empire to practice own religion and lifestyle

Question 30

Millet System

Answer 30

Ottoman system where people could not practice their own culture if it was not Islamic, or they had to pay a tax to live their life

Question 31

Gunpowder Empire

Answer 31

Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman