8525172379 | Charles v | member of the Hapsburg family, king of spain, and Holy Roman Emperor | 0 | |
8525172380 | Phillip II of Spain | Catholic King, enemy of England | 1 | |
8525172381 | Act of Supremacy (1534) | Declared the king the supreme head of the Church of England. | 2 | |
8525172382 | Elizabeth I of England | Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; Queen of England 1533-1603. | 3 | |
8525172383 | British East India Company | A joint stock company that controlled most of India during the period of imperialism. | 4 | |
8525172384 | James I of England | He believed in divine right and that rebellion was the worst of all crimes. (549) | 5 | |
8525172385 | English Civil War | 1642-1649 supporters and opponents of King Charles. King vs. Parliament | 6 | |
8525172386 | Glorious Revolution | 1688 overthrow of King James in England | 7 | |
8525172387 | English Bill of Rights | 1689 laws protecting the rights of English subjects and Parliament | 8 | |
8531246605 | Huguenots | French Protestants | 9 | |
8531246606 | Edict of Nantes | 1598 - Granted the Huguenots liberty of conscience and worship. | 10 | |
8531246607 | Louis XIV | king of France from 1643 to 1715 | 11 | |
8531246608 | War of Spanish Succession | 1701-1714 | 12 | |
8531246609 | Holy Roman Empire | empire of west central Europe from 962 to 1806, comprising present-day Germany and neighboring lands | 13 | |
8531246610 | Thirty Years' War | Conflict over religion, territory, and power among European ruling families | 14 | |
8531246611 | Peace of Westphalia | the peace treaty that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 | 15 | |
8531246612 | Mongol Yoke | the name for the Mongolian rule over eastern Slavs for more than two hundred years. | 16 | |
8531246613 | Ivan IV (the Terrible) | First absolute tsar of Russia who crushed the boyars, giving him a nasty reputation | 17 | |
8531246614 | Romanov Dynasty | Dynasty elected in 1613 at end of Time of Troubles; ruled Russia until 1917 | 18 | |
8531246615 | Serfs | A person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times | 19 | |
8531246616 | Peter the Great | This was the tsar of Russia that Westernized Russia and built up a massive Russian army. | 20 | |
8531246617 | Catherine the Great | Empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796) | 21 | |
8584130459 | Ottoman Empire | A Muslim empire based in Turkey that lasted from the 1300's to 1922. | 22 | |
8584130460 | Osman Bey | Founder of the Ottoman Empire | 23 | |
8584464260 | Janissaries | a member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard between the 14th and 19th centuries. | 24 | |
8584464261 | Sulieman the Magnificent | The sultan who presided over a "golden age" and the greatest Ottoman assault on Christian Europe was | 25 | |
8584464262 | Istanbul | Capital of the Ottoman Empire; named this after 1453 and the sack of Constantinople. | 26 | |
8584464263 | Devshirme | Ottoman policy of taking boys from Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers | 27 | |
8584464264 | Safavid Empire | Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state. | 28 | |
8584464265 | Mughal Empire | a period of Muslim rule of India from the 1500s to the 1700s | 29 | |
8584464266 | Babur | Founder of the Mughal Empire | 30 | |
8584464267 | Akbar | Mughal ruler with a genius for cultural blending, military conquest, and art | 31 | |
8584464268 | Jizya | Poll tax that non-Muslims had to pay when living within a Muslim empire | 32 | |
8584464269 | Sihkism | commanality between islam and Hinduism | 33 | |
8584464270 | Shah Jahan | Mughal ruler who built Taj Mahal | 34 | |
8584464271 | Taj Mahal | A beautiful tomb built by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan to honor his wife. | 35 | |
8584464272 | Aurangzeb | Mughal emperor who succeeded Shah Jajan known for his religious zealotry | 36 | |
8584464273 | Songhai Empire | An Islamic west African empire involved in the gold-salt trade | 37 | |
8584464274 | Sunni Ali | First great ruler of Songhai, who established the empire | 38 | |
8584464275 | Timbuktu | Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning | 39 | |
8584464276 | Kongo | Central African kingdom in the 1400s that engaged in warfare and slavery | 40 | |
8584464277 | King Affonso I | Changed state religion to Christianity; relationship with Portuguese | 41 | |
8584464278 | Angola | Southern Africa | 42 | |
8584464279 | Queen Nzinga | Leader who ruled in Angola and spent almost 40 years battling Portuguese slave traders | 43 | |
8649904177 | Manchus | Federation of Northeast Asian (from Manchuria) peoples who founded the Qing Empire. | 44 | |
8649904178 | Qing Dynasty | the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries | 45 | |
8649904179 | Kangxi | Qing emperor (r. 1662-1722). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire. | 46 | |
8649904180 | Qianlong | ruler that helped to secure Qing borders but ended up causing the downfall of the Qing Dynasty | 47 | |
8649904181 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences | 48 | |
8649904182 | Edo Period | Japan attempted to get the daimyo to settle in a major city by making cultural elements appealing. | 49 | |
8649904183 | National Seclusion Policy (1635) | prohibited Japanese from traveling abroad and from most foreigners from visiting Japan. | 50 | |
8649904184 | Dutch Studies | studies of Western science and technology; Japan | 51 | |
8649904185 | Seppuku | form of ceremonial suicide of defeated or disloyal samurai to avoid dishonor | 52 | |
8649904186 | Kabuki | drama aimed at farmers, merchants, and other common folk | 53 |
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