3.2 land based empires admin Flashcards
The Ottoman _______ system kidnapped young boys to convert them and staff their government.
devshirme
________ were the military side of it.
Janissaries
The Japanese hired/paid _______ warriors to fight for either local lords or the centralized Shogunate.
samurai
The Ming continued the Chinese practice of recruiting ________ scholars for government positions; they also employed eunuchs.
Confucian
______ relied on local sheriffs and justices of the peace.
England
France used intendants or supervisors; Louis XIV rule was very _________, keeping nobility near the king. Power was held by bureaucratic leaders like Richelieu.
centralized
Ivan IV (the Terrible) had his _____________ that reduced boyar power.
oprichnina/police
Peter employed provincial officials rather than _________ lords.
decentralized
The Aztec/Mexica practiced ______ sacrifice to intimidate those they ruled.
human
_______ generally taught divine right of kings i.e., absolutism from God
Europeans
England reduced the power of the king through the Glorious Revolution that gave _______ higher authority.
Parliament
The Songhai promoted state power through ______ sharia.
Islamic
Russia built ___________on the Baltic to celebrate Peter’s power.
St. Petersburg
The ____ had imperial portraits painted to honor their emperors.
Qing
The Incan sun temple of Cuzco (built without iron tools) was covered with ____.
gold
The Incan sacrificed Llamas and sometimes _______.
sacrificed
The Incan sun temple was demolished to build a ______ church.
Spanish
The Inca (Machu Picchu) also constructed a Temple of the Sun, about 1450, some 400 miles SE of ______.
Lima
______ mausolea and mosques: The Taj Mahal in N central India was completed 1640. It consisted of a 40-acre garden and cost up to $1 billion. It is 240 feet high; the main building is 180 feet on each side
Mughal
European palaces, such as the French _______ 15 miles SW of Paris. It had 700,000 square feet of room (covering 15 acres) on about 2000 acres of land. The hall of mirrors had 350 mirrors (240 by 35 feet). The cost for the whole complex was perhaps $2 billion.
Versailles
The Mughal collected taxes from peasants through _____ (zamindar).
nobles
The Ottoman practiced tax ______ where a collector bid for the right to collect taxes in an area (he could pocket the profits).
farming
Peter the Great in Russia developed industries like _____ to strengthen the military and state power.
mining
The Aztec/Mexica required ______ from defeated peoples near its empire.
tribute
The Ming collected taxes in hard currency/______ that arrived in abundance from the Americas.
silver
