AP World Unit 3 Vocab Quiz

What was the Devshirme system?

• A tax on religious minorities in the Ottoman Empire

• The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries

• The practice of dividing subjects into religious communities in the Ottoman Empire

• A military code followed by the Janissaries

Who were the Janissaries?

• Elite Ottoman guards recruited from the Christian population and often converted to Islam

• Persian soldiers in the Safavid Empire

• Feudal lords in the Ottoman Empire

• Muslim scholars who served as advisors to the Sultan

What was the Mughal Empire?

• A Hindu kingdom in India during the 14th century

• A Muslim state that ruled most of India from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century

• A Chinese dynasty that ruled over India

• A military government established by the British in India

Who were the Safavids?

• A Muslim dynasty in Egypt

• A Shi'ite Muslim dynasty that ruled Persia and had a mixed culture of Persians, Ottomans, and Arabs

• Buddhist monks in China

• The ruling class in Japan during the Tokugawa Shogunate

Who were the Samurai?

• Persian nobles who ruled feudal Japan

• A class of warriors in Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land

• Chinese soldiers who served during the Ming dynasty

• Ottoman guards who protected the Sultan

What is the Taj Mahal?

• A mosque in Turkey built by Suleiman the Magnificent

• A beautiful mausoleum at Agra, India, built by Shah Jahan in memory of his wife

• A palace in Persia built by Shah Ismail

• A Buddhist temple in Japan

What was tax farming in the Ottoman Empire?

• A form of taxation on Ottoman merchants

• A system where private individuals were hired by the government to collect taxes

• A method of collecting agricultural products as tax

• The taxation of land owned by Christian subjects

Who were the Zamindars in the Mughal Empire?

• Farmers who were exempt from taxes

• Decentralized lords who collected tribute for the emperor

• Muslim scholars who managed tax systems

• Elite soldiers recruited through the devshirme system

What is Sikhism?

• A religion combining elements of Hinduism and Islam, founded in northern India

• A sect of Islam followed by the Ottomans

• A form of Buddhism practiced in the Mughal Empire

• A traditional belief system in Persia

Who was the Daimyo?

• A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai

• A military ruler in China

• A Mughal tax collector

• A noble in the Ottoman Empire