WorksheetsUnit 7 Absolute Monarch, Gunpowder, Feudal Japan
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
What does Absolute Ruler mean?
a ruler who is sure of their power
a ruler who is absolute
someone who has to answer to a separate government body
A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life
The primary goal of most of Europe's absolute monarchs was to
support political freedom for the new middle classes
centralize their political control over their nations
prevent contact with areas beyond Europe's borders
maintain peaceful relations with neighboring nations
What system was in decline that helped monarchs gain the absolute power?
Democracy
Communism
Feudalism
Republicism
What document gave religious rights to all faiths?
The Edict of Nantes
Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Petition of Rights
Which leader westernized Russia?
Charles I
Peter the Great
Louis XIV
Ivan the Terrible
The theory justifying a monarch's rule by God's authority is called....
laissez-faire
predestination
totalitarianism
divine right
What king became France's most powerful ruler and boasted "I am the state"?
Henry III
Louis XIV
Charles II
Frederick IV
What body in England placed limits on the powers of the monarchs?
The Church
Universities
Parliament
Foreign governments
A monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.
Divine Right
Absolutism
Czar
Versailles
Who was Louis XIV?
This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European
This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.
This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.
This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility
Which of the following was a problem with the age of absolutism?
Wars were fought for status, religion, territory, and power
Countries gained vast territories of land throughout Europe
Taxes were raised to build roads, canals, factories, and merchant ships
Tremendous wealth was gained by utilizing their colonies raw materials
True or False: Louis XIV's excessive spending on wars, colonialization, and public works would place great economic strain on France.
True
False
Daimyo were...
Land owners, nobles
farmers
warriors
military leaders
Samurai were...
Military leaders
Landowners
Farmers
Warriors
Shogun were...
Warriors
Military Leaders
Farmers
Landowners
the way of the warrior, or warrior code of behavior
Bushido
feudalism
kamikaze
Shinto
the most common geographic feature in Japan is...
Oceans
Rivers
Mountainous
Coastal plains
Which religious practice in Japan exists which includes honoring nature and spirits?
Shinto
Confucianism
Sunni
Hindu
The Heian period is called Japan’s golden age because of its achievements in...
technology.
military power.
art and literature.
religious power.
People who follow Shinto believe
in one god
everything in nature has kami
in Buddhism
in following a vegetarian lifestyle
Which country heavily influenced Japanese culture?
China
Korea
India
Russia
Which person was responsible for capturing Kyoto and gaining control in central Japan?
Hideki Matsui
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Oda Nobunaga
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Which man completed the unification of Japan and set up a shogunate in Japan to maintain that control?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Oda Nobunaga
Ito Hirohito
the rule of Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successors in the Tokugawa family
Zen
Shogun
Tokugawa Shogunate
Prince Shotoku
When Japan closed their ports and refused to interact with other countries, this is known as
Segregation
Isolationism
Militarism
Which of the following was NOT a "Gunpowder" Empire during the 1450-1700 time period?
Safavid Empire
Ottoman Empire
Roman Empire
Mughal Empire
True or False:
All 3 empires were Islamic & ruled by Muslim leaders with well-organized
governments made up of loyal bureaucrats.
True
False, all 3 empires were Hindu
False, all 3 empires were Christian
The Ottoman army included 30,000 elite soldiers called ________
who were slaves that were trained to be loyal to the government.
Janissaries
Jizyas
Slavs
None of the Above
Ottoman rulers were called ________ & they governed with absolute power
Caliphates
Monarchs
Sultans
None of the Above
King Suleyman granted freedom of worship to ________ & Jews living in the empire
Hindus
Christians
Buddhists
Sikhs
Safavid rulers were called ___________, using the Persian title for king
Sultans
Caliphates
Monarchs
Shahs
The greatest ruler of the Safavid Empire was ___________
who came to power in 1587
Bubar
Shah Abbas
Alexander the Great
Muhammed
The greatest Ottoman sultan was ___________ who came to power in 1520
Suleyman the Magnificent
Alexander the Great
Romulus the Great
James III
In 1494, ___________ became king of the Mughals, expanded the army,
& began invasions into India to create his empire
Babur
Sulaman
Suleyman
Shah
In 1556, Babur’s grandson Akbar became king of the Mughal Empire
& expanded the empire into almost all of ___________.
Spain
China
India
Iran
