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WorksheetsGunpowder VOCAB
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 46mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
a soldier in the elite guard of the Ottoman Turks
a)
janissary
b)
anarchy
c)
suttee
2.
an empire formed by outside conquerors who unified the regions that they conquered through their mastery of firearms
a)
hostage system
b)
gunpowder empire
c)
hans
3.
"holder of power"; the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks and the Ottomans
a)
janissary
b)
grand vizier
c)
sultan
4.
the Ottoman sultan's chief minister who carried the main burdens of the state and who led the council meetings
a)
grand vizier
b)
queue
c)
clan
5.
"sacred place"; the private domain of an Ottoman sultan, where he and his wives resided
a)
ulema
b)
anarchy
c)
harem
6.
an appointed official of the Ottoman Empire who collected taxes, maintained law and order, and was directly responsible to the sultan's court
a)
hans
b)
pasha
c)
grand vizier
7.
a group of religious advisors to the Ottoman sultan; this group administered the legal system and schools for educating Muslims
a)
suttee
b)
ulema
c)
janissary
8.
king (used in Persia and Iran)
a)
shah
b)
zamindars
c)
zamindars
9.
political disorder; lawlessness
a)
anarchy
b)
suttee
c)
hostage system
10.
traditional beliefs, especially in religion
a)
ulema
b)
harem
c)
orthodoxy
11.
a local official in Mogul India who received a plot of farmland for temporay use in return fro collecting taxes for the central governemnt
a)
clan
b)
hostage system
c)
zamindars
12.
the Hindu custom of cremating a widow on her husband's funeral pyre
a)
pasha
b)
suttee
c)
ulema
13.
the braided pigtail that was traditionally worn by Chinese males
a)
hans
b)
queue
c)
bureacracy
14.
a ceramic material made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures
a)
porcelain
b)
bureacracy
c)
suttee
15.
a group of related families
a)
suttee
b)
ulema
c)
clan
16.
a national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries
a)
grand vizier
b)
harem
c)
isolationist
17.
"great names"; heads of noble families in Japan who controlled vast landed estates and relied on samurai for protection
a)
daimyo
b)
hostage system
c)
ulema
18.
approximately 250 domains into which Japan was divided under the Tokugawa
a)
bureacracy
b)
hans
c)
janissary
19.
a system used by the shogunate to control the daimyo in Tokugawa Japan; the fmaily of a daimyo lord was forced to stay at the residence in the capital whenever the lord was absent from it
a)
hostage system
b)
zamindars
c)
queue
20.
Japan's outcast class, whose way of life was strictly regulated by the Tokugawa
a)
harem
b)
ulema
c)
eta
21.
a policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations
a)
isolationist
b)
queue
c)
pasha
22.
part of the continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands
a)
clan
b)
mainland states
c)
suttee
23.
an administartive organization that relies on nonelective officials and regular procedures
a)
ulema
b)
zamindars
c)
bureacracy
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