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WorksheetsUnit 3 Quiz PRACTICE
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 26mins
A land based empire is
An empire based primarily on the distribution of new lands to closely held bureaucratic officials who then govern those lands as sole leader
An empire based primarily on the spread of religion and the installation of strict religious laws
An empire based primarily on maritime conquest
An empire based primarily on the administration and control of new lands often acquired by military conquest
Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of a land based empire
Centralized bureaucracy with a strong central leader
Diverse populations with cultural syncretism
A focus only on their land without further expansion
Strong military force
All of the following are Islamic gunpowder empires except
The Mughals
The Ottoman Empire
The Qing Dynasty
The Safavids
Who set the foundation for the rise of the Turkic empires
Shah Abbas I
Mehmed II
Tamerlane
Babur
Towards the end of Emperor Qianlong’s reign in China during the Qing Dynasty
The Chinese government built the great wall of China to ward off invaders
Chinese bureaucracy became corrupt and imposed high taxes and mass killings on the civilian population
Mongol attacks became too strong and led to a change in power
China imposed a protectorate over Tibet
_______Mehmed II took over Constantinople by the use of
Bronze cannons
Intelligence negotiations with the enemy
Use of horses in battle
Unique military strategies such as trenches
What are the four main methods that rulers use to maintain their power structures?
Tax collection system, used religious shamans to foresee military tactics, canons, and stealing money from serfs
Used military professionals, put religion on their side, used architecture to emphasize authority, tax collection system
Used military professionals, put religion on their side, tax collection system, and portraits of Dr. Richardson to emphasize authority
Used composite bows, slaughter of local villages, put religion on their side, tax collection system
What is one COMMON way that leaders financed their empires in the period 1450-1750?
Taxes such as the Jizya and Tax farmers such as Zamindars and Intendants
Mining salt and gold to sell for profit
Using the revenue from the Silk Road trade
Demanding money from other empires using the Zamindars and Intendants
Which King most strongly asserted the Divine right of kings in Europe?
Henry VIII
Peter the Great
Louis XIV
Ivan the Terrible
How did Japan eventually consolidate its power?
The Japanese Emperor implemented strict laws that were enforced by the Samurai
The Daimyo led a revolution against the Samurai to gain control over Japan and instal the Daimyo Shogunate
The Daimyo fought with the Shogun to eventually bring Japan under one Shogunate (Tokugawa Shogunate)
What was the dominant religion in Europe?
Islam
Hinduism
Sikhism
Christianity
Martin Luther questioned
The validity of the Bible
The selling of indulgences and simony as a payment for church land that was later used for the building of more churches
The selling of indulgences as payment for the absolvement of sins and simony as payment for a church position.
The position of the pope in the Catholic church
Who established the church of England and why?
Henry VIII, because he was fed up with the divorce laws of the Catholic church
Henry VIII, because he wanted to work his way into the highest position of the church
Charles V, because he was fed up with the matrimony laws of the Catholic church
Charles V, because he questioned the authority of the pope
What two Islamic empires went to war because of Islamic Schisms?
Ottoman and Mughal
Ottoman and Safavid
Ottoman and the Umayyad
Ottoman and Abbasid
Which Mughal leader established a fair and efficient government based on tolerance?
Babur
Suleiman I
Akbar
Mehmed II
Who united the majority of the Rus people and became the foundation for the Russian state?
Mehmet II
Ivan the Terrible
Ivan the Great
Suleiman I
This was the name of the Russian Tsar in 1682 that greatly expanded and centralized the Russian state, largely modeling it after western models.
Ivan IV (The Terrible)
Peter I (The Great)
Ivan III (The Great)
Tamerlane
This was the capital of Russia in which he built near the Baltic coast in an attempt to set up a maritime empire modeled after Western European states.
St.Petersburg
St.Helena
Moscow
London
This was the Russian leader who is considered the first to gain Russian independence and start the Russian state after he led the victory over the Golden Horde (Mongols).
Ivan III (Ivan the Great)
Peter the Great
Vladimir Lenin
Nicholas II
What was the name of the powerful noble class in Eastern Europe that Ivan IV tortured, executed, and stripped of land and power?
Boyars
Janissaries
Samurai
Patricians
__________ This is the name of a movement that protested the policies of the Catholic Church in the Early Modern Era and moved to reform the church, later breaking away and forming their own denomination.
The Protestant Reformation
The Renaissance
The Age of Exploration
The Scientific Revolution
__________ This was the controversial practice of selling salvation by the Catholic Church in the 16th-century.
Indulgences
Simony
Excommunication
Transubstantiation
__________ This was the great Qing Emperor from 1654 to 1722 who vastly expanded China’s borders, including much of Central Asia and Taiwan.
Kangxi
Qianlong
Yongzheng
Hongwu
__________ the requirement of all Han males within the empire to adopt the Manchu queue hairstyle in order to show dominance over the Han peoples by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Queue Order
Mandate of Heaven
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
__________ NON RELIGIOUS leader who oversaw the church clergy and then reported to the Tsar.
Holy Synod
Patriarch
Metropolitan
Archbishop
__________ The church fought against protestant attacks and instituted the inquisition, Jesuit missionaries, and the Council of Trent as an attempt to keep followers.
Counter-Reformation (Catholic Reformation)
Great Schism
Age of Enlightenment
Renaissance
__________ The Final religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants, known as the Thirty Years war, resulted in this.
Peace of Westphalia
Treaty of Versailles
Edict of Nantes
Congress of Vienna
__________ The shift in religious authority meant people also began looking towards reason, experiments, and evidence instead of faith.
The Scientific Revolution
The Industrial Revolution
The Renaissance
The Age of Exploration
__________ Strict Islamic code established by the Ottoman empire.
Sharia
Canon Law
Hammurabi's Code
Talmud
What was the forced bureaucratic service of Christian boys within the Ottoman Empire called? AKA Blood Tax
Devshirme
Janissary
Millet
Timar
What was the name of the captured boys who went on to become WARRIORS for the Ottoman empire?
Janissaries
Mamluks
Samurai
Spartans
This gunpowder empire is Sunni Islam.
Ottoman Empire
Safavid Empire
Mughal Empire
Songhai Empire
This gunpowder empire is Shia Islam.
Safavid Empire
Ottoman Empire
Mughal Empire
Songhai Empire
Wives and concubines of the Sultan tried to promote their own children as heirs to the throne.
Harem
Divan
Janissary
Vizier
__________ was a Byzantine era church which was changed to a Mosque during the Ottoman to show the shift to Muslim values.
Hagia Sophia
Blue Mosque
Topkapi Palace
Suleymaniye Mosque
An example piece of architecture built to demonstrate Indian wealth and power.
Taj Mahal
Eiffel Tower
Great Wall of China
Statue of Liberty
How did rulers demonstrate their wealth and power in the Ottoman Empire - a form of domestic policy? (OTHER THAN TAXES)
Public works (such as building mosques, palaces, and other monumental architecture and LITTLE PAINTINGS SO EVERYONE COULD STARE AT THEM)
By abolishing all taxes for citizens
By refusing to engage in any foreign trade
By limiting the construction of public buildings
Besides Islam, what was something all three gunpowder empires have in common?
Use of gunpowder weapons (such as cannons and firearms)
Practice of democracy
Originated in Europe
Spoke the same language
Provide the major ethnic and religious group that was largely forced to flee Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition between 1492 and 1497.
Jews
Moors
Catholics
Protestants
This is the doctrine that provided a religious justification for increased monarchal control in Early Modern Europe.
Divine Right of Kings
Social Contract Theory
Separation of Powers
Enlightened Absolutism
The new class of non-noble elites that rose to prominence in Early Modern Europe, most notably in England, Scotland, and the Netherlands and sought to protect these rights from the monarch/government?
Gentry
Bourgeoisie
Serfs
Clergy
In England, Their job was to maintain peace, settle some legal matters, and carry out the Monarch’s laws.
Justices of the Peace
Sheriffs
Parliamentarians
Lords
This is the name of the German Monk who questioned the Church in 1517 - issuing the start of the Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther
Ms. Boss
Charlemagne
What enabled religious and scientific ideas to spread quickly in 16th century Europe?
This was the decades long conflict between the Catholics and Protestants in the early 17th century that signified the last religious war in Europe, as well as the decline of Spain and the Catholic powers.
This was the name of the Russian leader in the 16th century who used terror tactics to consolidate his monarchy power and crush any resistance from the boyar nobility.
These were the northern people who invaded Ming China and ended the last Han Dynasty in 1644 and started the Qing Dynasty.
This was the system kept in place by the Qing Dynasty to filter and select government officials in order to maintain Han acceptance and stability.
The European monarch who centralized France through military conflict and bureaucratic and military reform in the early modern era.
This is the name of the House of Parliament which is primarily made up of wealthy, landed NON-nobility.
These were the peasant warriors of the Russian Empire
Zheng He's expeditions were cut short because...
