Unit 3 MKP

Question 1

Kangxi

Answer 1

-one of China’s greatest emperors
-brought back long term stability and wealth after chaos
-initiated “Prosperous Era of Kangxi and Qianlong”

Question 2

Akbar

Answer 2

1556-1605
-Mughal ruler with liberal outlooks
-created Din-i-Ilahi

Question 3

Atahulapa

Answer 3

1502-1533
-last Incan emperor before Spanish
-was in civil war with his brother when Pizarro showed up

Question 4

Montezuma II

Answer 4

1460-1520
-Aztec ruler during Spanish conquest of Mexico
-expanded boundaries
-killed during attack on Tenochtitlan

Question 5

Elizabeth I

Answer 5

1533-1603
-last monarch of Tudor dynasty
-reign called “Golden Age of England” due to drama and adventurers

Question 6

Louis XIV

Answer 6

1638-1715
-consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France that was mimicked
-built palace of Versailles and relocated there

Question 7

Aurangzeb

Answer 7

1618-1707
-Mughal emperor
-expanded empire
-built abandoned religious tolerance

Question 8

Suleiman the Magnificent

Answer 8

1494-1566
-Ottoman ruler known for reconstruction of the legal system
-ruled over apex of the empire

Question 9

Ivan IV

Answer 9

1530-1584
-Grand Price of Moscow
-first ruler to be crowned as Czar
-changed many things to allow Russia to become an empire

Question 10

Peter the Great

Answer 10

1672-1725
-Russian tsar who presided over the Westernization of the empire
-moved capital to St. Petersburg
-changed the system to become European-oriented

Question 11

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Answer 11

1543-1616
-last of the unifiers of Japan
-founder of Tokugawa shogunate
-ruled over beginning of Japanese isolationism

Question 12

Martin Luther

Answer 12

1483-1546
-wrote the 95 Theses as a critique of Catholic Church
-credited with starting the Protestant Reformation

Question 13

Henry VIII

Answer 13

1491-1547
-King of England who broke away from Catholic Church
-founded Church of England to divorce his first wife

Question 14

Guru Nanak

Answer 14

-founder of Sikhism