Unit 3 test review

Question 1

How did land-Based Empires gain and maintain power?

Answer 1

Consolidating power and legitimizing their power (rulers communicated that they were in charge)

Question 2

What were the major gunpowder empires?

Answer 2

Qing Dynasty - Central and Southeast Asia
Mughal - South and Central Asia
Ottoman - Southern Europe, Middle East, and North Africa
Safavid (and Songhai) - Middle East

Question 3

How did these Empires consolidated power?

Answer 3

Bureaucracy (group of people employed by the government who carry out the will of the emperor)

Question 4

What is a Bureaucracy good for?

Answer 4

Land-based empires relied on collecting taxes from subject. Taxes are good for supporting giant military complexes (another thing land-based emperors did to consolidate power)

Question 5

The militaries of land-based empires each had an elite group of soldiers

Answer 5

• The Ottomans had the Janissaries (they enslaved Christian boys who received education and became loyal to the sultan)
• The Safavids had the Ghulam (Taken from minority and slave populations but loyal to the Shah)
• The Aztecs had the Blood Tax

Question 6

What did Eurasian empires rely on to ensure intimidation

Answer 6

Gunpowder- based weapons

Question 7

What did the Americans rely on to ensure intimidation

Answer 7

Human sacrifice

Question 8

How did these Empires legitimize their power?

Answer 8

• All the empires covered lots of territory, and a military isn’t enough to keep people in
• Religion, art, and architecture was used to help

Question 9

What is a unifying force, but sometimes can be fragile

Answer 9

religion

Question 10

absolute monarchs

Question 11

first picture

Answer 11

Qing

Question 12

Second picture