Mr. Wesney - Empires Expand - Unit 3.1 Flashcards
What did the Russians call the Mongols when being ruled by them?
Tartars
Who was the first tsar in Russia?
The Great Ivan III
What did Ivan accomplish with his countries size?
Tripled it
Who ruled at age 3, and was locked up his whole life by the nobles?
Ivan IV (The Terrible)
What did Ivan IV establish?
Code of Laws
What was the secret police that Ivan IV created?
Oprichniki
What people did Ivan IV massacre, to avenge the death of his mother?
Boyars (nobles)
What did Ivan IV used to conquer the east?
Cossacks
What did Russia come into closer contact with?
Western Europe
What was the last family to carry on the tradition of the tsar?
Romanov Family
What two people established control by expansion and using influence of the Eastern Orthodox?
Michael and Alexis Romanov
Who brought out the Westernization of Russia?
Peter the Great
Who did Peter go to war with in order to gain a warm water port?
Sweden
What did Peter require men to do?
Shave beards
What port city did Peter build?
St. Petersburg
What was the issue with Peter’s attempt on Westernization?
Focused on elites
Who deposed Peter III?
Catherine the Great
What was Catherine’s image considered to be?
Enlightened
What country did Catherine invade, and split borders with other nations?
Poland
What type of people were the Ottomans composed of?
Sunni Muslims
Who founded the Ottoman Empire?
Osman
What straits did the Ottomans conquer?
Bosporus & Dardanelles
Who destroyed the city of Constantinople, and what did they rename it?
Mehmed II, Istanbul
Who expanded the Ottomans into Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Arabia?
Sultan Selim I
What type of empire were the Ottomans?
Gunpowder empire
Who was the first to fire cannons at infantry?
Suleyman I
What dynasty rose in Persia during the 16th century?
Safavid Dynasty
What were the Safavid Dynasty composed of?
Shiite Muslims
Who founded the Safavid?
Shah (King) Isma’il
Who did the Safavid lose to, and what was the deciding battle called?
Ottomans, Battle of Chaldiran
Who controlled Turkic chiefs through conciliatory methods?
Tahmasp I
Who helped Safavid connect to European advisors to form a stronger military?
Shah Abbas
What dynasty was in India, that unified the people and were Sunni Muslim?
Mughal Empire
What were the people in Mughal empire primarily?
Hindu
Who founded the Mughal?
Babur
Who was Babur successor, that would cause the downfall of the empire?
Humayan
Who was Humayan’s succesor who would get the Mughal’s back on track?
Akbar
What religion did Akbar make to combine the ideas of Hindus and Muslims?
Din-i-Ilahi
What Hindu traditions did Akbar discourage?
Sati & Child marriage
Who succeeded Akbar that would begin the decline of the Mughal?
Aurangzeb
What does Renaissance mean?
rebirth
Who were the city state family leaders of Florence?
Medici
Who had great wealth in the Medici family who valued art & books.
Cosimo
What focuses on humankind as the center of intellectual & artistic endeavor?
Humanism
Who wrote The Divine Comedy that Kitt was yapping about?
Dante Alighieri
Who wrote The Prince, which spoke about how a leader should rule?
Machiavelli
Who made free standing statues once again?
Donatello
Who called the “father of modern painting”?
Masaccio
Who took art to the next level
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Who was favored by the popes?
Raphael Santi
Who’s considered the greatest writer of all time?
William Shakespeare
