Worksheets2.5 Content Check WHAP 13021908
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 3hrs 0mins
Match the following explanations and ethnicities.
Turkic peoples
Manchu
Han
Persian
Place these Chinese dynasties in chronological order
Song
Yuan
Ming
Qing
The Safavid Empire began when 14-year-old (a) conquered parts of the crumbling (b) empire in the Middle East and Central Asia. After conquering most of Persia, Iraq, and Iran, he was proclaimed (c) (equivalent to king or emperor) in 1501. Early in his reign, he declared (d) Islam as the official religion of the Safavid Empire. Since they were from a different branch of Islam, Ismail had the tombs of the Abbasid (e) destroyed.
Match the following economic terms with their definitions.
local officials and private collectors distant from the central government; made money by charging extras
tax farmers
A payment or gift demanded from one country by a stronger one
tribute
Mughal tax farmer
zamindar
Islamic tax on non-Muslims
jizya
What term means "a model for warrior life that blended the cooperative values of nomadic culture with the willingness to serve as a holy fighter for Islam"?
ghazi ideal
divine right of kings
boyar
absolutism
(a) is an economic and social system where peasants are bound to the land and have few rights.
(b) were the noble landowning class in the Russian Empire.
(c) was a selection system used by the Ottomans to staff their military and government with forcibly recruited Christian children
(d) were the elite forces of the Ottoman army, usually created from the kidnapped Christian children.
(e) - strict social groupings designated at birth - were important in the Mughal empire's blend of Hindu and Muslim society.
Organize these options under the right gunpowder empire.
Suleiman I (1520-1566)
Shah Abbas I (1588-1629)
Akbar (1556-1605)
Conquered Constantinople (1453)
Basilica Cannon
devshirme
janissaries
Mehmed II (1432-1481)
Shah Ismail (1501-1524)
Taj Mahal
Muslim Empire with large Hindu population
Shia Islam
Modern day India
Modern day Iran
Modern day Turkey
zamindars
Babur (1483-1530)
Emperor of Russia, expanded eastward by conquering khanates held by the descendants of the Golden Horde
Ivan IV
Cossack
Tamerlane
Louis XIV
This monumental palace was built by Louis XIV to emphasize his absolute authority as king.
Taj Mahal
Versailles
Süleymaniye Mosque
Winter Palace
Emperor Peter the Great of Russia ordered this monumental architecture to be built by the forced labors of peasants and prisoners of war.
Süleymaniye Mosque
Winter Palace
Versailles
Taj Mahal
Qing ruler and one of China's longest-reigning Emperors, he (1661-1722) presided over a period of stability and expansion. Sent forces into Taiwan, Mongolia, and Central Asia. Made Tibet a protectorate.
Kangxi
Wudi
Qianlong
Zheng He
Emperor, poet, knowledgeable in art and calligraphy. Initiated military campaigns in lands west of China, which led to annexation of Xinjiang and mass killings of local population. Sent armies into Tibet and Nepal. Tried but failed to conquer Burma and Vietnam, losing much of the empire's wealth.
Qianlong
Zheng He
Wudi
Kangxi
