APWH Unit 3

Who was the Mughal Emperor (r. 1658-1707) who reversed his predecessors' policies of religious tolerance and attempted to impose Islamic supremacy throughout the Indian subcontinent?

• Babur

• Akbar

• Jahangir

• Aurangzeb

Who was the most famous emperor of India's Mughal Empire (r. 1556-1605) whose policies are noted for their efforts at religious tolerance and inclusion?

• Babur

• Akbar

• Jahangir

• Aurangzeb

What was the state founded by Muslim Turkic-speaking peoples who invaded India and provided a rare period of relative political unity (1526-1857) and are noted for their efforts to create partnerships between Hindus and Muslims?

• Ottoman Empire

• Safavid Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Russian Empire

• Songhay Empire

What was the state established after a violent Manchu takeover of China (1644-1912) that vastly enlarged the territorial size of the state and incorporated a number of non-Chinese people?

• Tang Dynasty

• Song Dynasty

• Yuan Dynasty

• Ming Dynasty

• Qing Dynasty

What was the tribute that Russian rulers demanded from the native people of Siberia, most often in the form of "soft gold," or furs?

• yasak

• devshirme

• mit'a

What was the Christian state centered on Moscow that emerged from centuries of Mongol rule in 1480 and expanded into northern and eastern Asia and into the Baltics and Eastern Europe by 1800?

• Ottoman Empire

• Russian Empire

• Safavid Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Songhay Empire

What was the Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the 15th century?

• Ottoman Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Songhay Empire

• Safavid Empire

• Russian Empire

What was the Turkic empire established in Persia in the early 16th century that was notable for its efforts to convert its people to Shia Islam?

• Ottoman Empire

• Safavid Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Songhay Empire

• Russian Empire

What was the city that fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" in 1453 and marked the end of the Christian Byzantium Empire?

• Timbuktu

• Moscow

• Constantinople

• Mecca

• Vienna

Who was the Chinese admiral who commanded a huge fleet of ships in a series or voyages in the Indian Ocean that began in 1405 to enroll distant peoples and states in the Chinese tribute system but abruptly ended in 1433 and led to no lasting Chinese imperial presence in the region?

• Marco Polo

• Ibn Battuta

• Zheng He

• Christopher Columbus

• Vasco da Gama