Unit 3 Vocab and MKP quiz

Question 1

Absolutism

Answer 1

Concept of government developed during rise of nation-states in Western Europe during the 17th century; featured monarchs who passed laws without parliaments.

Question 2

Divine right

Answer 2

Divine right the idea that monarchs are God’s representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.

Question 3

Proletariat

Answer 3

Class of working people who do not own property, typically manufacturing workers, paid laborers in agricultural economy, or urban pooor. A product of economic changes of the 16th and 17th century.

Question 4

Parliamentary monarchy

Answer 4

Originated in England and the Netherlands in the 17th century - Kings are partially checked by significant legislative powers in parliaments

Question 5

Hegemony

Answer 5

The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others.

Question 6

Ethnocentrism

Answer 6

Regarding one’s own race as better/superior

Question 7

Janissaries?? What empire??

Answer 7

Ottomans

Question 7

Janissaries

Answer 7

Ottoman infantry divisions that dominated ottoman armies – had a great deal of political influence after 15th century.

Question 8

Devshirme

Answer 8

Ottoman Empire policy of taking children from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers.

Question 9

Shah

Answer 9

King, title of the Mughal rulers.

Question 10

Vizier

Answer 10

Head of the Ottoman bureaucracy, after the 15th century often more powerful than the sultan.

Question 11

Harem

Answer 11

the women in a Muslim household, including the mother, sisters, wives, concubines, daughters, entertainers, and servants. Ottoman sultans had large harems.

Question 12

Sati

Answer 12

Hindu ritual in India of immolating(sacrificing) surviving windows with the bodies of their deceased husbands.

Question 13

Immolating

Answer 13

Sacrificing.

Question 14

Boyars

Answer 14

Landowning nobles in Russia, had less power than their Western European counterparts

Question 15

Cossacks

Answer 15

Peasants recruited to migrate to lands in the southern parts of Russia, combined agriculture with military conquests.

Question 16

Westernization

Answer 16

To influence with ideas, customs, practices, etc, of Western Europe.

Question 17

Multinational State

Answer 17

An empire composed of many nations ethnic groups…

Question 18

Example of multinational state

Answer 18

Russia and Ottoman Empire.

Question 19

Secular

Answer 19

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.

Question 20

Predestination

Answer 20

Christian doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved.

Question 20

Protestant

Answer 20

A member of the Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation.

Question 21

Indulgences

Answer 21

A pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin, sold by the Catholic Church to help raise money.

Question 22

Bhakti

Answer 22

A popular movement in Hinduism centered around the personal worship of gods especially Vishnu and Shiva, popular with women.

Question 23

Predestination creator?

Answer 23

John Calvin.

Question 24

Kangxi

Answer 24

Considered one of China’s greatest emperors. His reign brought about long-term stability and relative wealth after years of war and chaos. He initiated the period known as the “Prosperous Era of Kangxi and Qianglong” or “High Qing” which lasted for several generations after his death.

Question 25

Akbar

Answer 25

Ruler of the Mughals known for having a liberal outlook on all faiths and beliefs. Expanded empire and brought religious unity.

Question 25

Atahualpa

Answer 25

Last Inca emperor before the Spanish conquest; was in the middle of a civil war with his brother when Francisco Pizarro showed up.

Question 25

Montezuma II

Answer 25

Aztec ruler during the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Expanded the empire’s boundary and died during an attack on the capital city.

Question 25

Elizabeth I

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Last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. Her reign was called the “Golden Age of England,” known for the flourishing of English drama and skilled adventurers.

Question 26

Aurangzeb

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Mughal emperor 1618 abandoned the policies of religious toleration set in place by his predecessors.

Question 27

Louis XIV

Answer 27

Consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule in France and was mimicked by many other rulers during this time period. Built the Palace of Versailles.

Question 28

Suleiman the Magnificent

Answer 28

Ottoman ruler known for his reconstruction of the ottoman legal system, which gave him the nickname ‘the lawgiver”. Presided over the apex of Ottoman military, political, and economic power.

Question 29

Ivan IV

Answer 29

1530 Grand Price of Moscow – first ruler to be crowned as Czar of all Russia and managed many changes that allowed Russia to become an empire.

Question 30

Peter the Great

Answer 30

Russian Tsar who presided over the Westernization of the Russia into more modern, scientific and Europe-oriented system.

Question 31

Martin Luther

Answer 31

1483 Wrote the 95 theses as a critique of the Catholic Church while serving as a monk in Germany and is credited with starting the Protestant Reformation.

Question 32

Tokugawa Leyasu

Answer 32

Last great of the 3 unifers of Japan and founder of the Tokugawa shogunate. Which lasted until the mid-19th century. Presided over the beginning of Japanese isolationism.

Question 33

Henry VIII

Answer 33

King of ENgland who broke away from Catholic Church to form Church of England. Divorces first wife.

Question 33

Guru Nanak

Answer 33

The founder of Sikhism.