Large Land Empires

Large Land Empires

Multiple Choice

Who was Suleyman the Lawgiver

• Ottoman Empire leader who is known for his civil and cultural achievements

• Ottoman Empire leader known for declining the progress of the empire

• Ottoman Empire leader known for being extremely fair in his court decisions

• The first ever Ottoman Empire sultan, who expanded the empire.

Suleyman The Lawgiver

• Brilliant Military Leader

• Ruler of Ottoman Empire at its peak

• Know for creating Civil and Criminal Code

• Made cultural advances while he was a ruler-->

• Cultural Advances similar to Renaissance [art and literature thrived

Mehmed II

• Ruler of the Ottoman Empire

• Wanted to take Constantinople

• If he controlled Constantinople and the Barbourious Strait he could control trade.

• Controlling Trade = Power=$$

• Attacked Constantinople from two fronts...took the city after 7 weeks

• Rebuilt Constantinople, opened to many religions [religiously tolerant], and renamed it Istanbul

Multiple Select

What did Mehmed II do to Constantinople after he took over the city?

• Remaned the city to Istanbul

• Rebuilt the city

• Opened the city to all religions [religiously tolerant]

• Opened the city as a Islamic capital

Multiple Choice

What impact did Timur the Lame have on the Ottoman Empire

• He helped grow the Ottoman Empire by taking more land from surround countries

• He helped grow the economy by increasing trade

• He interrupted the growth of the Ottoman Empire

• He burned down the Ottoman Empire

Multiple Choice

During this time period the chinese culture did not provide women rights, how did the Tang dynasty provide women more rights

• The Tang dynasty allowed women to vote

• The Tang dynasty had a women empress Wu Zhau (woojaw)

• The Tang dynasty allowed women to have their own property?

• Nothing, women had no rights in ancient China.

Multiple Choice

The Tang Dynasty created civil service exams, why?

• Those who passed the exam were given a lot of money to help stimulate the economy

• The exams were given to prisoners who were given a last chance to save themeseve

• Restore China's bureaucracy [those who passed the exam became scholar-officials]

Tang Dynasty

• Government: Emperor or Empress--> Wu Zhao [women empress]

• Civil Service Exam--> To create bureaucracy and to establish scholar-officials within the country.

• Trade--> Helped improve trade routes to help improve trade

• Fall of the Empire--> Muslim armies take over empire

• Civil Service Exams encouraged education and effort instead of positions based on power and money

Open Ended

"Gaining power depends on merit, not birth." How does this relate to the Song and Tang Dynasties.

Multiple Choice

Instead of spreading north and west like the Tangs did, what did the Song's do to their neighbors to the north

• Threatened them with war

• Allowed the northerners to expand into their empire

• Paid them an annual tribute to avoid conflict

Multiple Select

The Tang and Song dynasties was an era of prosperity, which was not a technological advancement from this era.

• Movable Type

• Magnetic Compass

• Porcelain

• Geometry

• Mechanical Clock

Multiple Choice

There was an agricultural advancements in the Song empire what was the advancment?

• Fast-ripening rice from Vietnam

• Fast-ripening rice from Japan

• Rice that needs less water from Russia

• Corn that does not need a lot of water from Columbia

Multiple Choice

How was trade impacted under the Tang and Song Dynasties

• It created more foot traffic on the Silk Road route

• It did nothing, it stayed the same.

• The trade declined because the Chinese dynasties were not willing to trade.

• It helped improve the Silk Road routes and created trade by sea [sailing]

Multiple Choice

What technological advancement helped encourage trading by sailing?

• Magnetic compass

• Movable Type

• Movable Globes

• Flat paper maps

The Song Dynasty

• Agriculture--> Used a new rapid-ripening rice from Vietnam

• Increased trade--> protected Silk Road Routes & Started sea trade due to compass

• Created a lot of technological advancements [moveable type, gunpowder, porcelain, mechanical clock, paper money, and magnetic compass]

• Because of trade = Rapid economic growth

• Art and Literature flourished--> Poetry and black ink artwork.

Multiple Choice

Why is the creation of the Gentry important?

• They attained their status through education rather than money and land

• They attained their status due to money and land

• They were formed out of the rapid growth of trade and the economy

• The Gentry was formed out of rebellion and breaking out of slavery.

Levels of Society

• During the Tang and Song Dynasties--> old aristocratic families started to fade

• The gentry [powerful well to-do people] formed

• Gentry--> created status through education and not land ownership and money

• Gentry was made up of skilled artisans, soldiers and servants.

Multiple Choice

How were women treated in the Tang and Song Dynasty?

• Horrible

• Fine, they just had minimum rights

The Status of Women

• Subservient to mean in Chinese Society

• Women's work deemed less important to families status--> but women in peasant households helped harvest crops

• Lily-foot--> binding young girls feet

Open Ended

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