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APWH Unit 3: Land Based Empires

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Gunpowder empires of this era include all of the following EXCEPT:

a)

Russia

b)

Mughal

c)

Ottoman

d)

Swahili

e)

Safavid

2.

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

a)

A) Qing Empire

b)

B) Mughal Empire

c)

C) Safavid Empire

d)

D) Ottoman Empire

3.

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

a)

A) Qing Empire

b)

B) Mughal Empire

c)

C) Safavid Empire

d)

D) Ottoman Empire

4.

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

a)

A) Qing Empire

b)

B) Mughal Empire

c)

C) Safavid Empire

d)

D) Ottoman Empire

5.

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

a)

A) Qing Empire

b)

B) Mughal Empire

c)

C) Safavid Empire

d)

D) Ottoman Empire

6.

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

a)

Istanbul

b)

Mehmed

c)

Tamerlane

d)

New Mecca

7.

Shi'a and Sunni are

a)

warring rulers of Middle Eastern empires

b)

two cities in Arabia

c)

two major factions within Islam

d)

two major factions within Buddhism

8.

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

a)

the devershime 

b)

the janissaries 

c)

millet system

d)

Immortals

9.

All of the following are ways that rules legitimize power EXCEPT...

a)

art

b)

architecture

c)

literacy

d)

religion

10.

The Janissaries were an elite military unit composed of:

a)

Top Muslim officers in the Ottoman empire

b)

captured and converted Christians

c)

Former Roman and Mongol soldiers

d)

Former Crusaders from the Byzantine empire

11.

Which Islamic denomination were the Safavids?

a)

Shia

b)

Sunni

c)

Sufi

d)

Druze

12.
What were the complaints Luther made against the Church called?
a)
95 Theses
b)
95 Topic Sentences
c)
59 Theses
d)
95 Wrongs
13.
What was the divine right of kings?
a)
Kings were descended from God.
b)
Kings were the head of the church/
c)
Kings received their authority from God alone.
d)
Only kings were able to decide what people believed.
14.

A form of government with unlimited power held by one individual

a)

Democracy

b)

Absolutism

c)

Nationalism

d)

Republicanism

15.

Which of the following was NOT a factor that helped lead to the rise of Absolute monarchs?

a)

Stimulation of trade from the crusades

b)

Strengthening of the power of the Catholic Church

c)

Weakened power of feudal lords

d)

Protestant Reformation weakening the power of the church

16.

This began as a religious war between Protestants and Catholics

a)

War of the Austrian Succession

b)

Thirty Years War

c)

War of the Spanish Succession

d)

French and Indian War

17.

What is and where is this image from?

a)

Hagia Sophia, Turkey

b)

Taj Mahal, India

c)

Mosque of Djenné, Mali

d)

Saint Basil's Cathedral, Russia

18.

What is and where is this image from?

a)

Hagia Sophia, Turkey

b)

Taj Mahal, India

c)

Mosque of Djenné, Mali

d)

Saint Basil's Cathedral, Russia

19.

What is and where is this image from?

a)

Buckingham Palace, England

b)

Kensington Palace, England

c)

Palace of Versailles, France

d)

Palace of Westminster, England

e)

Winter Palace, Russia

20.

"Civil Service Examinations" of the Qing Dynasty would be an example of how land-based empires_________.

a)

Developed military professionals.

b)

Recruited bureaucratic elites

c)

Created Tribute collection systems

d)

Generated Revenue through trade