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Match the following explanations and ethnicities.

• Persian

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• Han

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• Turkic peoples

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• Manchu

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Place these Chinese dynasties in chronological order

• Song

• Ming

• Yuan

• Qing

The Safavid Empire began when 14-year-old ​ (a)   conquered parts of the crumbling ​ (b)   empire in the Middle East and Central Asia. After conquering most of Persia, Iraq, and Iran, he was proclaimed ​ (c)   (equivalent to king or emperor) in 1501. Early in his reign, he declared ​ (d)   Islam as the official religion of the Safavid Empire. Since they were from a different branch of Islam, Ismail had the tombs of the Abbasid ​ (e)   destroyed.

• Ismail
• Timurid
• shah
• Shia
• caliphs
• Sunni
• Ottoman
• Abbas I

Match the following economic terms with their definitions.

• zamindar

• Mughal tax farmer

• jizya

• Islamic tax on non-Muslims

• tax farmers

• A payment or gift demanded from one country by a stronger one

• tribute

• local officials and private collectors distant from the central government; made money by charging extras

What term means "a model for warrior life that blended the cooperative values of nomadic culture with the willingness to serve as a holy fighter for Islam"?

• ghazi ideal

• divine right of kings

• boyar

• absolutism

​ (a)   is an economic and social system where peasants are bound to the land and have few rights.

​ (b)   were the noble landowning class in the Russian Empire.​

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ (c)   was a selection system used by the Ottomans to staff their military and government with forcibly recruited Christian children

​ (d)   were the elite forces of the Ottoman army, usually created from the kidnapped Christian children.

​ (e)   - strict social groupings designated at birth - were important in the Mughal empire's blend of Hindu and Muslim society.

• Serfdom
• Boyars
• Devshirme
• Janissaries
• Castes

Organize these options under the right gunpowder empire.

Groups:

(a) Ottoman Empire

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(b) Safavid Empire

,

(c) Mughal Empire

• Shah Abbas I (1588-1629)

• Mehmed II (1432-1481)

• Suleiman I (1520-1566)

• zamindars

• Shia Islam

• Taj Mahal

• Shah Ismail (1501-1524)

• Muslim Empire with large Hindu population

• janissaries

• devshirme

• Conquered Constantinople (1453)

• Akbar (1556-1605)

• Modern day Turkey

• Modern day Iran

• Modern day India

• Babur (1483-1530)

• Basilica Cannon

Emperor of Russia, expanded eastward by conquering khanates held by the descendants of the Golden Horde

• Ivan IV

• Cossack

• Tamerlane

• Louis XIV

This monumental palace was built by Louis XIV to emphasize his absolute authority as king.

• Taj Mahal

• Versailles

• Süleymaniye Mosque

• Winter Palace

Emperor Peter the Great of Russia ordered this monumental architecture to be built by the forced labors of peasants and prisoners of war.

• Süleymaniye Mosque

• Winter Palace

• Versailles

• Taj Mahal