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.

• A) Qing Empire

• B) Mughal Empire

• C) Safavid Empire

• D) Ottoman Empire

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

• A) Qing Empire

• B) Mughal Empire

• C) Safavid Empire

• D) Ottoman Empire

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

• A) Qing Empire

• B) Mughal Empire

• C) Safavid Empire

• D) Ottoman Empire

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

• A) Qing Empire

• B) Mughal Empire

• C) Safavid Empire

• D) Ottoman Empire

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

• Istanbul

• Mehmed

• Tamerlane

• New Mecca

Shi'a and Sunni are

• warring rulers of Middle Eastern empires

• two cities in Arabia

• two major factions within Islam

• two major factions within Buddhism

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

• the devershime 

• the janissaries 

• millet system

• Immortals

All of the following are ways that rules legitimize power EXCEPT...

• art

• architecture

• literacy

• religion

The Janissaries were an elite military unit composed of:

• Top Muslim officers in the Ottoman empire

• captured and converted Christians

• Former Roman and Mongol soldiers

• Former Crusaders from the Byzantine empire