AP World vocab

What is the process of consolidating power, authority, and decision-making into a single, central body or group called?

• Centralization

• Decentralization

• Delegation

• Distribution

What term describes something that involves or includes people from many different ethnic groups?

• Multiethnic

• Monolingual

• Solitary

• Homogeneous

Safavid Empire

• Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi’ite state.

• An Islamic imperial power that ruled a large portion of Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, invaded and ruled most of South Asia by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid...

• Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed la...

Fill in the blank: The ________ was a Turkish-ruled Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi’ite state.

• Safavid Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Qajar Dynasty

Fill in the blank: The ________ was an Islamic imperial power that ruled a large portion of Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, invaded and ruled most of South Asia by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and ended in the mid...

• Mughal Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Maurya Empire

• Gupta Empire

Fill in the blank: The ________ was an Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed la...

• Ottoman Empire

• Mughal Empire

• Safavid Empire

• Umayyad Caliphate

Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the last of China's imperial dynasties. Fill in the blank: __________

• Manchu

• Mongol

• Korean

• Japanese

Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development. Fill in the blank: __________

• Ming Dynasty

• Qing Dynasty

• Song Dynasty

• Tang Dynasty

A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai. Fill in the blank: __________

• Daimyo

• Samurai

• Shogun

• Ronin

Fill in the blank: The term for social classes in the ancient Indian class system is _______.

• Caste

• Dynasty

• Guild

• Sect