VOCABULARY QUIZ #1

Question 1

Haspburgs

Answer 1

powerful ruling family in the Holy Roman Empire, held land in Spain, Italy, central Europe and the Netherlands

Question 2

absolutism

Answer 2

form of government / ultimate authority rests in the hands of a monarch who rule by divine right

Question 3

despot

Answer 3

a person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant

Question 4

divine right principle

Answer 4

christian belief that god granted the right/authority to rule to the monarchs of Europe (monarchs receive their power directly from god)

Question 5

“sun king”

Answer 5

nickname for king louis the fourteenth of france because he believed to be the center of his country’s universe

Question 6

constitutionalism

Answer 6

political system that placed limits on the governments power through the documentation of citizens rights

Question 7

limited monarchy

Answer 7

a system of government in which the power of the monarch is limited by a representative assembly

Question 8

levy

Answer 8

collecting a tax by authority or force

Question 9

revenue

Answer 9

income of a government from taxation or other sources

Question 10

armada

Answer 10

fleet of warships

Question 11

conscription

Answer 11

mandatory military service

Question 12

huguenots

Answer 12

french calvinists (french protestants)

Question 13

osman

Answer 13

a leader of a semi-nomadic turkish group who set up the ottoman empire

Question 14

gunpowder empires

Answer 14

powerful empires that used guns to subjugate enemies and build control

Question 15

seljuk turks

Answer 15

early group of turkish invaders who challenged the christians for land during the crusades

Question 16

istanbul

Answer 16

city formally known as constantinople & conquered by the turks

Question 17

suleimen the magnificent

Answer 17

ruler of the ottoman empire while it reached its height of power and achievement

Question 18

sultan

Answer 18

term for ruler in islamic empires

Question 19

janissaries

Answer 19

elite military group of ottoman soldiers

Question 20

devshirme

Answer 20

system which forced christians to contribute young boys to become slaves of the sultan (government or army)

Question 21

vizier

Answer 21

head of the imperial administration aiding the sultan in day to day operations

Question 22

babur

Answer 22

founded the mughal empire in 1526

Question 23

akbar the great

Answer 23

ruled the MUGHAL empire when the empire reached its height of power and achievement

Question 24

rajas

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hindu regional leaders in india (appointed by akbar)

Question 25

taj mahal

Answer 25

impressive building built by mughal shah jahan as a tomb for his wife mumtaz mahal

Question 26

ivan lll

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also known as ivan the great, first russian prince who refused to pay tribute to the mongols declared himself tsar claiming that he was establishing the “third rome”

Question 27

cossacks

Answer 27

peasants recruited by ivan the great to settle new russian territories in exchange for their freedom for serfdom

Question 28

Ivan IV

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also known as ivan the terrible, ivan lll’s grandson who fought with the upper class houses for power and had many of them brutally executed; he also executed his eldest son, leaving no heir which led to the selection of Mikhail romanov

Question 29

boyars

Answer 29

russian nobility

Question 30

romanov family

Answer 30

boyar family which ruled russia from the 17th century through the 20th century

Question 31

peter the great

Answer 31

ruled russia that wanted to westernize and modernize russia

Question 32

window to the west

Answer 32

nickname for peters capital of st, petersburg on the baltic sea, port city which allowed the russians to access western european countries

Question 33

table of ranks

Answer 33

system of replacing boyars with government officials who earned their positions based on merit

Question 34

forbidden city

Answer 34

second ming capital city of beijing

Question 35

macao, guangzhou, hangzhou, shanghai

Answer 35

urban trade cities that grew under ming economic development

Question 36

jesuits

Answer 36

order of catholic missionaries organized during the catholic reformation in europe

Question 37

matteo ricci

Answer 37

italian jesuit priest who hoped to convert the chinese emperor to christianity

Question 38

qing dynasty

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meaning “pure” (dynasty set up by Manchurians after collapse of the ming)

Question 39

queue

Answer 39

a manchu-style patch of hair gathered long and uncut in the back, which chinese men were forced to adorn to show submission to the dynasty

Question 40

kowtow

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ritual ceremony required to be done by all visitors to the qing emperor

Question 41

kangxi, qianlong

Answer 41

two best known manchu rulers who ruled collectively from 1661 until 1795

Question 42

toyotomi hideyoshi

Answer 42

japanese warlord who united Japan under his authority

Question 43

tokugawa shogunate

Answer 43

first centralized government established by tokugawa leyasu in 1603

Question 44

bakufu

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“tent government”

Question 45

kabuki

Answer 45

form of japanese theatrical drama that consisted of several acts made up of skits of singing, dancing and elaborate staging

Question 46

“floating world”

Answer 46

setting of the kabuki plays