3.1 land based empires expand Flashcards
Guns allowed for settled peoples to be able to what?
fend off nomads
Huge Ottoman cannon defeated __________.
Constantinople
Guns helped end ________ in Europe as kings had armies that needed fewer knights.
feudalism
Russia used them to expand trade to the Baltic and toward the ____ __.
Black Sea
_____ were sought after in African slave related kingdoms
Guns
The Safavid and Mamluks ____ by not fully using gunpowder.
suffered
The Japanese and Chinese availed themselves of it but did not have the latest ___.
tech
In 1644 the Manchu/Qing conquered the ____ who had ruled China since 1368.
Ming
Under the Ming the population ______ but weak emperors were common.
doubled
The Ming imposed a “single whip silver system,” built the ________ ____, and sent Zheng He on his expeditions.
Forbidden City
The Mughal invaded ____ from Central Asia and defeated the last of the Delhi Sultanate in the early 1500s.
India
These Muslims ruled over a predominantly ____ people.
Hindu
___ was a custom where a widow was expected to throw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre.
Sati
The Taj Mahal was a masterpiece of _________.
architecture
At times women exercised some power (___ _____).
Nur Jahan
The British East India Company gradually took control over much of the ____-_______.
sub-continent
The Ottomans built an empire in North _____, SW Asia, and SE Europe.
Africa
A state of war existed between ______ and the Ottomans.
Europe
_______ were kidnapped Christian boys forced to convert to Islam and serve in the army.
Janissaries
Females were brought as slaves into the _____ of the wealthy.
harems
Groups of people within the Ottoman Empire were allowed to run their own affairs (____ ______).
millet system
Sultans adopted the ___ system where rivals for the throne were confined under house arrest until needed to serve.
cage
The Safavid operated between the Mughal and Ottoman. They were mostly ____.
Shia
_________ were stations built to accommodate merchants as they traveled long distances.
Caravanserai
____ were underground irrigation systems.
Qanats
Russia emerged from ____ rule around the Duchy of Moscow (called the Third Rome).
Mongol
Russia expanded with the help of ______ to an empire across Asia to the Pacific.
Cossacks
Because of Cossacks, there was an increased ethnic ____.
diversity
Russia had a primary economy of farms and ___ trading.
fur
___ worked the land.
Serfs
About ____ was a time of trouble since there was no heir.
1600
The Romanov dynasty emerged after the times of troubles.
Romanov
Peter the Great built St. Petersburg and increased mining, but there was no Renaissance, ________, or Scientific Revolution.
Reformation
Several ____ ruled after him.
Women
The Safavid fought the Mughal (Shia v. Sunni) about 1650 in ________ across the Hindu Kush.
Afghanistan
The Safavid won Kandahar even though the Mughal had ________. It was too far away for the Mughal, and they were distracted with another war.
gunpowder
`Morocco defeated the Songhai (both ____) 1591 at Gao 250 m SE of Timbuktu.
Islam
Morocco had 6-8 cannons plus harquebus. The Songhai tried to send 1000 _____ into the enemy but cannon scared them back into Songhai lines.
cattle
The Ottoman and the Safavid fought at ______ 1514 (Sunni v. Shia).
Chaldiran
The Ottoman won with ___. Later the Safavid got a lot of land back, but then lost them again to the Ottoman.
guns
_______ defeated the Spanish armada (Catholic v. Anglican) 1588.
England
The Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648 began as an intra-______ conflict.
Christian
The ______ civil war mid 1600s (Puritan v. Anglican) killed the king, and a non-royal person ruled for ten years.
English
_____ and England were constantly at war (late 1600s to early 1800s).
France
The War of ______ succession (early 1700s) was fought over who would rule Spain when the king died without an heir.
Spanish
Wars between Europe and Ottoman tended to be ______ v. Christian but not always.
Muslim
The Ottoman attacked Europe reaching ______ twice but not conquering it.
Vienna
Europe defeated the Ottoman ____ at Lepanto.
navy
_____ and the Ottoman were at war (Orthodox Christian v. Islam)
Russia
Peter made war on _________ (Orthodox v. Lutheran).
Sweden
