APWH Unit 3: Land Based Empires

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Gunpowder empires of this era include all of the following EXCEPT: Russia, Mughal, Ottoman, Swahili, Safavid

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Swahili

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Name That Empire: East Asia. Took power from Ming who took over after Yuan. Confucianism. Security motivated their move into Central Asia.

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Qing Empire

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

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Safavid Empire

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

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Ottoman Empire

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

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Mughal Empire

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

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Istanbul

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Shi'a and Sunni are

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two major factions within Islam

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

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the devershime

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All of the following are ways that rules legitimize power EXCEPT... art, architecture, literacy, religion

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literacy

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The Janissaries were an elite military unit composed of:

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captured and converted Christians