APWH Unit 3: Land Based Empires

Gunpowder empires of this era include all of the following EXCEPT: Russia, Mughal, Ottoman, Swahili, Safavid

Name That Empire: East Asia. Took power from Ming who took over after Yuan. Confucianism. Security motivated their move into Central Asia.

Name That Empire: Middle East. Persia. Shia Islam. Went to war with Ottomans. Ruled by a "Shah." Relied on military power of Turkic nomads.

Name That Empire: M.East/N.Africa/Europe. Turks. Sunni Islam. Beat old Byzantine Empire. Fought Shia Muslims. Ruled by a "Sultan".

Name That Empire: South Asia. Sunni Muslims ruling over a majority Hindu population. Akbar the Great. Were religiously tolerant until Emperor Aurangzeb.

The Muslim Ottomans captured the Christian city of Constantinople and renamed it

Shi'a and Sunni are

The enslaving of young Christian boys from the Balkans to be the elite soldiers within the Ottoman Empire was a tribute system known as -

All of the following are ways that rules legitimize power EXCEPT... art, architecture, literacy, religion

The Janissaries were an elite military unit composed of: