Unit 2 Flashcards
Who was Matteo Ricci? What did he write?
He was a Jesuit who wrote “The True Meaning of The Lord of Heaven”
Dynasties in China
Ming, Qing
Ming emperors stressed traditions from which eras?
Tang and Song
Who was Nurhaci?
First to unify the Manchu into an organized state
What does “Son of Heaven” refer to?
The emperor
What year did China’s population reach 225 million?
1750
The rankings of Chinese social order
- Emperor and family
- Scholar-bureaucrats
- Gentry
- Peasants
- Artisans
- Merchants
Why were the Chinese hesitant to embrace Christianity?
It was too exclusive
Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu? What did he do?
A shogun who set up the Tokugawa bakufu (tent government)
What are the three Islamic empires?
Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal
Origins of the Islamic empires?
Turkish
Founders of the Islamic dynasties
Osman Bey (Ottoman), Safa al-Din (Safavid), Zahir al-Din Muhammad (Mughal)
What were ghazi?
Muslim religious warriors
Which leader converted to Twelver Shi’ism?
Shah Ismail
What were the policies of Akbar and Aurangzeb regarding the Hindu majority?
Akbar - religious tolerance
Aurangzeb - no tolerance
Who outlawed coffee and tobacco?
Murad the 4th
What does Sikhism blend?
Hinduism and Islam
Who overran Kiev in the 1230s?
Mongols
Where did power shift under Ivan the 3rd?
From Kiev to Moscow
What is considered the third Rome?
Moscow
The Time of Troubles followed whose death?
Ivan the 4th
Founder of the Romanov dynasty?
Mikhail Romanov
Whom do you associate with Westernization?
Peter the Great
Peter’s “window on the west”?
St. Petersburg
