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| 14545720877 | Gunpowder | Invented within China during the 9th century, this substance was became the dominate military technology used to expand European and Asian empires by the 15th century. | 0 | |
| 14545720878 | Manchus | Northeast Asian peoples who defeated the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty in 1644, which was the last of China's imperial dynasties. | 1 | |
| 14545720879 | Mughal Empire | Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 2 | |
| 14545720880 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 3 | |
| 14545720881 | Safavid Empire | Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state. | 4 | |
| 14545720882 | Songhai | a West African empire that conquered Mali and controlled trade from the 1400s to 1591 | 5 | |
| 14545720883 | monumental architecture | architectural constructions of a greater-than-human scale, such as pyramids, temples, and tombs | 6 | |
| 14545720884 | Tax farming | A government's use of private collectors to collect taxes. Individuals or corporations contract with the government to collect a fixed amount for the government and are permitted to keep as profit everything they collect over that amount. (p. 334) | 7 | |
| 14545720885 | Devshirme | 'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries. | 8 | |
| 14545720886 | Samuri | a member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos. | 9 | |
| 14545720887 | Divine Right | Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. | 10 | |
| 14545720888 | Temple of Cuzco | Incan sun temple and example of monumental architecture. | 11 | |
| 14545720889 | Taj Mahal | A beautiful tomb built by the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan to honor his wife. | 12 | |
| 14545720890 | Versailles | A palace built by Louis XIV outside of Paris; it was home to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette | 13 | |
| 14545720891 | Zamindar | a local official in Mogul India who received a plot of farmland for temporary use in return for collecting taxes for the central government | 14 | |
| 14545720892 | Protestant Reformation | A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches. | 15 | |
| 14545720893 | Catholic Reformation | a 16th century movement in which the Roman Catholic Church sought to make changes in response to the Protestant Reformation | 16 | |
| 14545720894 | Sunni | A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 17 | |
| 14545720895 | Shia | the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 18 | |
| 14545720896 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 19 | |
| 14545720897 | Ming Dynasty | A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia | 20 | |
| 14545720898 | Sycretic | A religion that combines several traditions | 21 |
