Empires Review Mongols Ottomans Mughals Slave Trade Misc

Empires Review!!!

Mongols Ottomans Mughals Slave Trade Misc! 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

Mongols - 100 • This man, who’s name is actually a title meaning “universal ruler, ” was known for uniting the Mongols and expanding the empire as far as west as Eastern Europe.

Mongols – 100 • Genghis Khan

Mongols - 200 • This man is known best for strengthening the Mongol Empire in China. He started the Yuan Dynasty, invited foreigners and traders to his court, and adapted Chinese culture.

Mongols – 200 • Kublai Khan

Mongols – 300 • Give three reasons why the Mongols were so militarily successful

Mongols – 300 • Horses, archery, swords, military command based on merit, catapults, psychological warfare (brutal slaughter scared people, and those who surrendered before the battle began were given leeway)

Mongols - 400 • What happened to the Mongol Empire after Genghis Khan died and why?

Mongols – 400 • Divided into four kingdoms because Genghis Khan was a good conqueror but not administrator.

Mongols - 500 • Explain the Mongols policy on culture and religion of conquered peoples

Mongols – 500 • They let the people keep their customs (especially religion because their religion was based in the nature of Mongolia) and often they actually adopted the customs of people they conquered (Yuan Dynasty in China under Kublai Khan, Ilkhanate in Persia)

Ottomans - 100 • This was the religion practiced by the Ottomans that many of their laws were based on

Ottomans – 100 • Islam

Ottomans - 200 • Explain why Constantinople was so important for the Ottomans to conquer, AND say what they renamed it

Answer 2 – 20 • Geography: links Europe and Asia, on the Bosphorus Strait linking Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea. Politics: Ottoman Empire was split in half by the Byzantine Empire and the capitol of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople. • They renamed it Istanbul

Ottomans – 300 • Who is Mehmet the Conqueror?

Ottomans – 300 • Ottoman leader responsible for conquering Constantinople and changing the Hagia Sophia into a mosque

Ottomans – 400 • What are three things that Suleiman the Magnificent did that earned him his title?

Ottomans – 400 • Conquered eastern Europe; reformed and strengthened the Ottoman legal system; incredible architectural achievements by his architect Sinan

Ottomans - 500 • Explain the millet system and why the Ottomans adopted this

Ottomans – 500 • Millets were communities of Christians or Jews that were allowed to govern themselves and practice their religion as long as they paid (very high) taxes to the Ottomans; this was allowed because Islam doesn’t teach to force conversion

Mughals - 100 • This man began the Ottoman Empire in South Asia

Mughals – 100 • Babur

Mughals - 200 • This Mughal leader built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife

Mughals – 200 • Shah Jahan

Mughals - 300 • Name three things Akbar the Great did that made him “great”

Mughals – 300 • United all of India; religiously tolerant; built new capitol of Fatephur Sikri in the middle of his empire; appointed Hindus to government posts; held symposia to learn about other religions and look for what all faiths had in common; overcame dyslexia and illiteracy by appointing literate learned people to help him

Mughals - 400 • Explain how the Taj Mahal is a reflection of the governing styles of Shah Jahan and Akbar the Great

Mughals – 400 • Mixes architectural elements from Hindu, Persian, and Islamic traditions; reflects the tolerance and embrace of different cultures and traditions

Mughals - 500 • Explain the “Divine Faith”

Mughals - 500 • Akbar the Great’s religion formed from studying common elements of many world religions

Slave Trade - 100 • The Atlantic Slave Trade was often referred to as this, in reference to the three legs of the economic system

Slave Trade – 100 • The Triangle Trade

Slave Trade - 200 • This leg of the Atlantic Slave Trade was the most brutal, the one in which Africans were transported to be sold in the New World

Slave Trade – 200 • The Middle Passage

Slave Trade - 300 • Name two goods that were traded BESIDES slaves, and explain in which direction they went

Slave Trade – 300 • Americas Europe: Raw materials, including cotton, sugar, tobacco, gold • Europe Africa: Gold, manufactured goods such as smoking tobacco, textiles, and rum

Slave Trade - 400 • Explain why this statement is false: Europeans were solely responsible for the buying and selling of Africans into slavery.

Slave Trade – 400 • This is false because Africans frequently took prisoners of war as slaves. Once Europeans started settlements in Africa, Africans would kidnap and sell other Africans to Europeans.

Slave Trade - 500 • Explain how the Age of Exploration/Encounters/Invasions led directly to the Atlantic Slave Trade

Slave Trade – 500 • Due to the diseases of the Columbian Exchange, Native Americans died quickly in the New World, leaving the Europeans to have to look for alternate sources of labor. Africa already had a slave trade that the Europeans tapped into and expanded across the world.

Misc! - 100 • Explain Devshirme

Misc! – 100 • The Ottoman system in which Christian boys were kidnapped, converted to Islam, and groomed to serve in the military or the government

Misc! - 200 • Define Janissaries

Misc! – 200 • Elite soldiers in the Ottoman Empire who were raised and trained through the Devshirme system; because they were eunuchs they had no kids and were focused solely on fighting

Misc! - 300 • Define syncretism

Misc! – 300 • Blending, usually of cultures or religions

Misc! - 400 • What is the Persian word for Akbar the Great’s Divine Faith?

Misc! – 400 • Din-i-llahi

Misc! - 500 • Describe the conditions of the Middle Passage

Misc! – 500 • Chained up in barracks, often went to the bathroom and vomited upon one another, cramped quarters that lasted 2 -3 months, harsh beatings, forced to exercise on the decks, sexual assault of female slaves, so bad that there accounts of slaves committing suicide or attempting it