Unit 3 (1450 - 1750) Flashcards

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Qing Dynasty

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  • Final Dynasty in the Chinese Empire
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Manchus

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Group that defeated the Ming Dynasty and established the Qing dynasty

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Mughal Empire

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Islamic empire that ruled most of South Asia during the Gunpowder Era
- had religious tolerance and therefore became prosperoud
- established to rise against Delhi Sultanate

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Ottoman Empire

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Large islamic empire that rose to power after the fall of Byzantine empire

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Safavids

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Turkic ruled Islamic Empire

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Songhai

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Ruled by Askia the Great…economic prosperity through the sahara (empire was significantly expanded through Sunni Ali and Askia)

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Devshirme

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Ottoman Empire practice where young Christian boys became slaves of the Sultan
- Received high education and nice conditions

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Janissary

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Ottoman system that forced Christian boys to serve in the military

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Samurai

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Served the rulers in Tokugawa Japan but had to prove their loyalty, later became bureaucrats

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Divine Right

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Belief that emerged in Europe that god stays out of daily life but rather has a predetermining factor (fate)
- the idea that European monarchs were gods representation on Earth

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Absolute Monarchy

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Ruling in Europe where the leader had total power over the people

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Versailles

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Constructed by Luis XIV to celebrate his wealth and reign as well as to subdue his nobles

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Zamindars

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In the Mughal Empire, aristocrats that had huge plots of land and power over their peasants
- Once India was colonized by Britain, they became tax collectors

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Taj Mahal

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Tomb built by Mughal Shah (Shah Jahan) to honor his late wife
- a blend of Muslim and Hindu architecture and art

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Tax Farming

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Used by the Ottomans, the government used tax collectors who were bound by contract

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Protestant Reformation

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Religious that swept across Europe in the 1500s that divided Catholicism into different strands

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95 Thesis

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Written by Martin Luther, fueled Church reform
- Limited the power of the Pope

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Martin Luther

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German Monk who wrote the 95 thesis
- wanted Church reform
Beliefs:
- Bible = sole authority
- Diminished power of the priests
- Translate Bible TO GERMAN

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Counter/Catholic Reformation

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After the protestant reformation, Catholic Church limited the protestants by reforming Catholicism and prosecution

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Jesuits

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Society of Jesus… started to limit the spread of Protestants (1491 - 1556)

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Indulgence

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The idea of buying your way into heaven, originated in Germany
- added to the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church

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Simony

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Buying and selling of Church offices

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Inquisition

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A Roman Catholic tribune of prosecution of heresy

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Thirty Years War

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Religious War between Roman catholics and German protestants
- Broke Holy Roman Empire and allowed germans to decide their own religion

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John Calvin

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Religious reformer who believed in societal morality and predestination (fate)

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Sikhism

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Combined Hinduism and Islam to form a monotheistic religion in Northern India
- changed the gender heirarchy of Islam as well as the Hindu Caste system

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Shogunate

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Leader in Tokugawa Japan

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Daimyo

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Lord of the Shogun who worked and collected taxes from peasants and farmers

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Jizya

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Tax in the Ottoman empire to practice own religion and lifestyle

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Millet System

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Ottoman system where people could not practice their own culture if it was not Islamic, or they had to pay a tax to live their life

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Gunpowder Empire

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Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman

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