Quiz 3.1 Land-Based Empires: Expansion

What leader expanded Russia's borders eastwards?

• Ivan the Conqueror

• Catherine the Great

• Peter the Great

• Ivan the Terrible

This was a direct effect of Qing Chinese failed invasions of Burma and Vietnam.

• A corrupt bureaucracy that overtaxed peasants.

• Manchurians invading from the north.

• The Russian Empire invaded China.

• Tamerlane conquered China.

The Ghazi Ideal was a combination of what two cultures?

• Islam

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• Nomadic Culture

• Russian Coassacks.

In 1453, Sultan Mehmed II conquered this city.

• Kiev.

• Constantinople.

• Baghdad.

• Vienna.

Which of the following was NOT a factor responsible for the fall of the Islamic Gunpowder empires?

• A Janissary rebellion.

• Competing West. European Sea-Power

• Weak sultans and "harem politics."

• Failure to modernize armies and economies.