Unit 3: Land-Based Empires, c.1450-1750

The photograph was taken during the sixteenth-century Mughal mosque in India built by Akbar is an example of which of the following?

• Emergence of capitalist economies

• Cultural syncretism

• Expansion of coercive labor systems

• Creation of global trade network

Which of the following factors contributed most to Manchu expansion in Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?

• The adoption of Buddhist beliefs

• The use of cannons and gunpowder

• The military alliances with western Europe states

• The development of large trading companies

Which of the following was a method rulers in Eurasia used to legitimize and consolidate their power during the period 1450 C.E. to 1750 C.E.?

• Enacting reforms to decrease economic and social inequalities

• Adopting the religious practices of minority groups

• Promoting free trade

• Developing professional armies

These two empires were supported with the use of a large bureaucracy

• Ottoman and Mughal

• Mughal and Chinese

• Ottoman and Chinese

• Safavid and Russian

Major Afro-Eurasian long-distance trade routes c.1500 C.E.

Which of the following about Afro-Eurasian trade is supported by the map above?

• The Delhi Sultanate relied primarily on sea routes to participate in the silk trade across Asia.

• The Islamic states of West Africa maintained close commercial ties with eastern Europe. 

• The Ottoman Empire was located at the intersections of major trading routes.

• That states of the Middle East did not participate in the Indian Ocean trading system.

The Mughal ruler Akbar favored policies that promoted

• a cosmopolitan and hybrid Indian-Persian-Turkic culture

• the forced conversion of Hindus to Islam

• a distinct Islamic identity

• the removal of non-Muslims from high office

Which of the following is NOT a similarity between all 5 land-based empires?

• all empires had a top-down structure, with a ruler and nobles at the top with peasants and enslaved people at the bottom.

• all relied on trade as a basis of economics

• rulers expanded their borders of empires using large armies with gunpowder weapons

• all embedded syncretic beliefs to unify their empire

What made Martin Luther's "Ninety-Five Theses" revolutionary?

• The idea that an individual could find salvation by faith alone

• The theory that the sun was the center of the universe

• The validation of the Catholic Church selling indulgences

• The proposal that knowledge should be based on observations

Claiming to be a successor to the Prophet Muhammad. 

• emperor

• Caliph

• devshirme

• sultan

The Ottoman practice of enslaving Christian boys from the Balkans to serve as bureaucrats and soldiers.

• timar

• tariff

• Millet system

• devshirme