Unit 3: 1450 - 1750

Question 1

Why do we see the expansion of empires in the time period c.1450?

Answer 1

Possible answers

1) Decline of the Mongols

2) Firearms

3) Faster and larger ships

4) Naval Tech

Question 2

What are the gunpowder empires?

Answer 2

1) Ottoman EMpire

2) Safavid Empire

3) Mughal Empire

Question 3

Persecuted Sunni Muslims; “Convert or due”

Answer 3

Safavid Empire - Shi’a Muslims

Question 4

What categories make up the Devshirme?

Answer 4

1) Palace

2) Scribes

3) Imams

4) Janissaries

Question 5

__________ : graduates of the devshirme who became the elites of the ottoman military and bureaucracy

Answer 5

Janissaries

Question 6

Devshirme - Explain the Blood Tax

Answer 6

Possible answer:

Christian boys being taken by ottoman military to be converted to islam and raised by the state

Question 7

Empires that were religiously tolerant

Answer 7

Possible answers:

1) Mughal Empire
2) Ottoman Empire

Question 8

____ : type of gov’t in which a single monarch has supreme authority over his/her realm

Answer 8

Absolutism

Question 9

This Ruler:

• modernized Russia
• Westerinzed Russia
• Ranked Society based on merit, not birth/nobility

Answer 9

Peter the Great

Question 10

This Ruler:

• absolute ruler of france
• believed in divine right
• centralized gov’t
• palace of versailles

Answer 10

Louis XIV

Question 11

Largest Ottoman Mosque in Istanbul
- symbolism of sultans power
- islamic representation

Answer 11

Suleymaniye Mosque
(Blue Mosque)

Question 12

European Monarchs used this doctrine to legitimize rule. They answer to God, not parliament, nobles, etc.

Answer 12

Divine Right

Question 13

Vassal states had to by tribute (people)

Leading vassals to fight one another for captives, instead rebelling vs. Aztecs

Answer 13

Aztec Sacrifice

Question 14

Largest Shi’a State in History, the Shsh forced conversion to Shi’a and ruled as divinely appointed politician/religious leader

Answer 14

Safavid Shi’ism

Question 15

Songhay upper class used to promote trans-saharan trade, learning (Timbuktu), and taught obedience to the king

Answer 15

Songhay Islam

Question 16

Movement towards a more spiritual relationship with God, rather than based on studying or rituals, based on love

Answer 16

Bhakti Movement

Question 17

Doesn’t discriminate based on caste, gender

Answer 17

Bhakti

Question 18

_______ often compared to Protestant Reformation

Answer 18

Bhakti

Question 19

1st to break away; founder of lutheranism

Answer 19

Martin Luther