Unit 3: Land Based Empires Flashcards
How do land empires expand
Military conquest with gunpowder and new forms of military
What were 3 the Gunpowder Empires
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Mughal Empire
What was the Tokugawa Shogunate
Time of peace and stability and the centralization of the Japanese under the Shogunate
Supported idea of Feudalism
What was the sakoku policy
Japan’s policy of isolation
Some characteristics of Safavid Empire
Shia Muslim
Rivals with ottomans
When and who captured Constantinople
1450 - Ottomans
Define the Songhai Empire
West African empire ruling lots of land
Founded by Sonni Ali
Arts flourished + center of learning
What was the Devshirme System
Non-Muslim Christian boys sent to Islam Ottoman Empire military to later become janissaries
What is Divine Right
Rulers claimed to be ruling in consent or in the name of God
Similar to Mandate of Heaven in China
Who collected taxes in Japan
Salaried Samurai
Who collected taxes in the Ottoman Empire
Zamindars
What is tax farming
Used by Ottomans
Government auctioned off the right to tax to whoever could buy it
What was the Protestant Reformation
Roman Catholic church was corrupt so people began to think of alternatives
(Martin Luther - Lutheran)
What did Martin Luther do
nailed 95 theses (problems with catholic church) to church door and created lutheranism
What is Sufism
Mystical Islam belief system with closer relationship with god
