AP World Era 4 Key Concept 4.3

Question 1

Who used a variety of methods to what and what their power?

Examples?

Answer 1

Rulers; legitimize and consolidate
Rulers used the arts to display political power (Courtly literature)
Rulers continued to use religious ideas (Chinese emperors’ public performance of Confucian rituals)
Treatment of different ethnic and religious groups (Ottoman treatment of non-Muslim subjects)
Recruitment of bureaucratic elites as well as the development of military professionals (Salaried samurai)
Tribute collections and tax farming

Question 2

What relied on increased use of gunpowder, cannons, and armed trade to establish large empires in both hemispheres?
Examples?

Answer 2

Imperial expansion
Europeans established new trading-post empires in Africa and Asia, which proved profitable for the rulers and merchants involved in new global trade networks, but these empires also affected the power of the states in interior West and Central Africa
Land empires expanded dramatically in size (Manchus, Mughals, Ottomans, Russians)
European states established new maritime empires in the Americas (Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, British)

Question 3

Competition over trade routes. What and what all proved significant challenges to state consolidation and expansion
Examples?

Answer 3

State rivalries, and local resistance
Piracy in caribbean
Thirty Years War
Food riots