Unit 5- Early Modern World (Part II): Vocab

Question 1

*Akbar

Answer 1

*brought Mogul rule to most of India

Question 2

*Akbar Style

Answer 2

*Mogul style of painting that combined Persian and Indian motifs

Question 3

*Grand Vizier

Answer 3

*the Ottoman sultan’s chief minister

Question 4

*Gunpowder empires

Answer 4

*empires formed by outside conquerors who unified the regions that they conquered through their mastery of firearms

Question 5

*Legislative Assembly

Answer 5

*established the constitution of 1791

Question 6

*Maximilien Robespieere

Answer 6

*head of the Committee for Public Safety

Question 7

*Naploenic Code

Answer 7

*preserved most of the rights of the people gained by the revolution

Question 8

*Paris Communie

Answer 8

*Radical political group

Question 9

*Queue

Answer 9

*the braided pigtail that was traditionally worn by Chinese men

Question 10

*Riza-i-Abbasi

Answer 10

*A very famous Safavid painter, his focus was on simple subjects

Question 11

*Taille

Answer 11

*France’s chief tax

Question 12

*“The Golden Lotus”

Answer 12

*considered to be the first realistic social novel

Question 13

*Tokugawa

Answer 13

*completed the restoration of a central Japanese authority

Question 14

*Zamindars

Answer 14

*The local officials of the Mogul dynasty that keep a portion of the taxes paid by the peasants in lieu of salary

Question 15

Banners

Answer 15

in Qing China, the separate military unit made up of Manchus; the empire’s chief fighting force

Question 16

Mehmet II

Answer 16

Under Mehmet II, the Ottomans moved to end the Byzantine Empire and they conquered Constantinople

Question 17

Elba
Jacobin club
Kabuki
Mogul
Olympe de Gouges
Ronin
Sinan
"The Dream of the Red Chamber"
Waterloo
Yi