Gunpowder Empires

Question 1

Akbar

Answer 1

Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire
Known for his universal tolerance
Got rid of jizya tax and adopted Hindus into administration and military

Question 2

Aurangzeb

Answer 2

A-Wrong-zeb
Reversed all religious tolerance that his grandfather had brought back
Hated the Hindus brought back jizya

Question 3

Battle of Chaldiran

Answer 3

When the Ottoman Empire drafted the Safavid empire 1614

Question 4

Boyar and what the Czar did to diminish their powers

Answer 4

Russian nobility/bureaucrats
Table of ranks (merit system that allowed commoners to attain high military and civilian positions)
Taxes
Russian Secret police force Ivan IV (Oprichniki)

Question 5

Daimyo

Answer 5

Japanese nobility basically like a lord in Medival Europe (provincial lords)

Question 6

Devshrime

Answer 6

Ottoman Empire
They would recruit young Christian boys covert them to Islam and then force them to join the military (Janissaries) or the be gov officials
(Loyal)

Question 7

Forbidden City

Answer 7

China
Imperial residence built by emperor Zhu Di

Question 8

Isfahan

Answer 8

Safavid Empire
Capital city under Shah Abbas known as a center of culture and art

Question 9

Janissaries

Answer 9

Ottoman Empire
Christian boys from the Devshrime

Question 10

Jizya

Answer 10

Tax on non Muslim people
Ottoman Empire Mugul Empire

Question 11

Millet system

Answer 11

Broke into millets
Allowed various religious communities to control themselves through their own laws under the empire
(Helped with managing diversity)

Question 12

Peter the Great

Answer 12

Expanded (Baltic Sea, Volga River, St. Petersburg) Westernized Europe
Czar

Question 13

Samurai

Answer 13

Under the Daimyo
Protected the lands
Basically Vassals from Medial Europe

Question 14

Shi’a Islam

Answer 14

Safavids!!!

Question 15

Shogunate

Answer 15

Type of government that Japan had
Shogun was the ONE ruler of Japan
Who had the daimyo under him

Question 16

Sikhism

Answer 16

Mugul Empire
Combination of Islam and Hindu

Question 17

St. Petersburg

Answer 17

Architecturely modeled after Western Europe by Peter the Great
Russias first warm water port in the Baltic Sea Route

Question 18

Suleiman the Magnificent

Answer 18

Powerful ruler of the Ottoman Empire
Significantly expanded and made many legal reforms

Question 19

Table of Ranks

Answer 19

Merit system that allows commoners to Arian ranking military positions and civil positions

Question 20

Zamindar

Answer 20

Land owners who were a gate way between central government and rural villages
Local people would pay to collect other people’s taxes

Question 21

Shah Jahan

Answer 21

Mughal leader
During his reign the empire was at its peak

Question 22

Shah Jahan

Answer 22

Most famous for the construction of Taj Mahal his reign was considered the Golden Age

Question 23

Rajput rulers

Answer 23

Strategic marriages and alliances with rajput rulers to consolidate power and maintain control diverse territories

Question 24

Single whip

Answer 24

Collected taxes of silver bc it’s because the global currency
Wanted silver
Ming China

Question 25

Queue Order

Answer 25

Forced Han men to shave the front of their heads and braid the rest to illustrate submission to the Qing
Managing

Question 26

Alternate attendance

Answer 26

Noble were required to live in the capital every other year while their families were held hostage to sustain loyalty