ms. boyds test on nov. 19, 2010
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| 105483167 | Tartars | the people who resulted from the intermarriage of Russians and Mongolians (1450-1580) | 0 | |
| 105483168 | who got rid of the Mongol control in Russia? | the Princes of Moscow with the Orthodox church worked together in 1450 and overthrew the Mongol control | 1 | |
| 105483169 | Ivan the Great (III) | relied on military power, had to keep the forced element in place, used the Orthodox Church to encourage endeavors. He practiced centralized rule, took the title Czar or Tsar or Caesar, believed expansion was necessary | 2 | |
| 105483170 | Ivan IV (the Terrible) | expansion, central power, policy of submission, killed Russian nobles, attacked Ottoman Empire (didn't completely conquer it), opened trade with the Safavids in Persia and Ottoman Empire, entered alliance with the Orthodox Church, died without a clear heir | 3 | |
| 105483171 | boyars | russian nobles | 4 | |
| 105483172 | romanovs | came after the time of turmoil, starts with Michael in 1613, they want to stabilize rule and expand | 5 | |
| 105483173 | cassaucks | russian peasants | 6 | |
| 105483174 | Alexis Romanov | state control over the church, started exiling people to Siberia, abolished the legislated assembly | 7 | |
| 105483175 | Peter the Great (Romanov) | absolute monarchy, decreases the nobility's power by hiring non-boyars as bureaucratic positions, created training institutes for these people, secret police (opranchinki), codified Russian laws, reformed tax system making the heaviest burden on the peasants, expanded | 8 | |
| 105483176 | oprachinki | the secret police of Peter the Great, they suppressed opposition | 9 | |
| 105483177 | In general, how did the Russian leaders increase their power over the nobility? | by having the nobility have an increased power over the serfs, sent them to far away lands | 10 | |
| 105483178 | Osman Bay | the ottoman empire tribal leader/Sultan, he led his people to become Muslim religious warriors, he didn't allow private property (he owned everything), so there were no nobles, direct taxation of the people | 11 | |
| 105483179 | Mehmed I | reunited the Ottoman empire after the invasion of Timur in 1402 | 12 | |
| 105483180 | Mehmed II | defeated Constantinople for Ottoman Empire, 1453 | 13 | |
| 105483181 | Dershirme | the practice in Ottoman military that required all Chrisitians to give young boys as slaves to the Sultan, which then created a guard called the Janissaries, they converted to Islam, spoke Turkish, used latest military technology and created one of the greatest military empires | 14 | |
| 105483182 | the economy of the Ottoman Empire was directed to | warfare and expansion | 15 | |
| 105483183 | Tartars | the people who resulted from the intermarriage of Russians and Mongolians (1450-1580) | 16 | |
| 105483184 | Who got rid of the Mongol control in Russia? | the Princes of Moscow with the Orthodox church worked together in 1450 and overthrew the Mongol control | 17 | |
| 105483185 | Ivan the Great (III) | relied on military power, had to keep the forced element in place, used the Orthodox Church to encourage endeavors. He practiced centralized rule, took the title Czar or Tsar or Caesar, believed expansion was necessary | 18 | |
| 105483186 | Ivan IV (the Terrible) | expansion, central power, policy of submission, killed Russian nobles, attacked Ottoman Empire (didn't completely conquer it), opened trade with the Safavids in Persia and Ottoman Empire, entered alliance with the Orthodox Church, died without a clear heir | 19 | |
| 105483187 | Boyars | Russian nobles | 20 | |
| 105483188 | Romanovs | came after the time of turmoil, starts with Michael in 1613, they want to stabilize rule and expand | 21 | |
| 105483189 | Alexis Romanov | state control over the church, started exiling people to Siberia, abolished the legislated assembly | 22 | |
| 105483190 | Peter the Great (Romanov) | absolute monarchy, decreases the nobility's power by hiring non-boyars as bureaucratic positions, created training institutes for these people, secret police (opranchinki), codified Russian laws, reformed tax system making the heaviest burden on the peasants, expanded | 23 | |
| 105483191 | Oprachinki | the secret police of Peter the Great, they suppressed opposition | 24 | |
| 105483192 | Catherine the Great | just read the awesome things she did | 25 | |
| 105483193 | In general, how did the Russian leaders increase their power over the nobility? | by having the nobility have an increased power over the serfs | 26 | |
| 105483194 | Osman Bay | the ottoman empire tribal leader/Sultan, he led his people to become Muslim religious warriors, he didn't allow private property (he owned everything), so there were no nobles, direct taxation of the people | 27 | |
| 105483195 | Mehmed I | reunited the empire after the invasion of Timur in 1402 | 28 | |
| 105483196 | Mehmed II | defeated Constantinople, 1453 | 29 | |
| 105483197 | Dershirme | the practice in Ottoman military that required all Chrisitians to give young boys as slaves to the Sultan, which then created a guard called the Janissaries, they converted to Islam, spoke Turkish, used latest military technology and created one of the greatest military empires | 30 | |
| 105483198 | The economy of Ottoman Empire was directed to | warfare and expansion | 31 | |
| 105483199 | Suleiman the Magnificent | ruled from 1520-1566, continued the Ottoman expansion, controlled Western Persia, North Africa, Central Europe, he was so successful because during his rule the Ottomans became a major naval power (Black and Aegean Seas) | 32 | |
| 105483200 | Millet | a community of religious groups in the Ottoman Empire because they were tolerant of other religions, they each had a single leader | 33 | |
| 105483201 | Women in the Ottoman Empire | could own property, not forced into marriage, could divorce, could serve in government, but subordinate to men, heaviest restrictions were on the upper class | 34 | |
| 105483202 | What things lead to the 400 years of decline that started with Selim? | insufficient government, succession questions, collapse of economy (influx of silver), devastation of trade networks, ideas of materialism, alcohol, tobacco, and promiscuity that came from the west. | 35 | |
| 105483203 | What type of Muslims are the Ottomans? | Sunnis | 36 | |
| 105483204 | What type of Muslims are the Safavids? | military Shiite | 37 | |
| 105483205 | Ail al-Din | founded the Safavids (family of Sufi mystics with him), went on a Jihad, had Ism'il carry on his mission (that guy also declared himself emperor, which I guess was okay) | 38 | |
| 105483206 | How did Abbas I encourage international trade? | built roads, rest houses, tried to guaranty the safety of merchants and travelers, created textile factories in the south | 39 | |
| 105483207 | Babur | founded the Mughal Empire in 1526 when he defeated the Lodi army and the Hindu warrior princes, he encouraged military buildup and arts, contributions: creation of a centralized government with ministries that controlled the provinces and introduction of a policy of religious toleration (unity with the Hindu princes), he introduced a new calendar, helped the poor, made an anti-alcohol campaign, and tried to improve the lives of women | 40 | |
| 105483208 | How did Babur try to achieve unity with the Hindu princes? | intermarriage, placed them in government positions, ended head tax for Hindus, and made everyone respect the cow. | 41 | |
| 105483209 | How did Babur try to fix the Hindu/Muslim conflict? | created a new religion called Din-i-Ilahi | 42 | |
| 105483210 | How did Babur try to improve the lives of women? | made it legal for widows to marry, discouraged child marriage, outlawed Sati (throwing yourself into the fire with your husband), attempted to address the practice of Purdah (seclusion of women in their own homes) | 43 | |
| 105483211 | The Mughal Era of Splendor | Jahangir and Shan Jahan helped this start out, constructed opulent cities, encouraged Indian textiles, supported art and architecture (Shan Jahan created the Taj Mahal for his wife), they continued religious toleration, but they started to fall behind Europe because they weren't looking into science or technology or the poor, they weren't interested in helping women | 44 | |
| 105483212 | The Mughal empires greatest size | Aurangzeb did this for them, but the government was rotting at this point | 45 | |
| 105483213 | Collapse of the Mughal Empire | weak economy (cost of wars), expansion and poor rulers, corrupt government, declining military, declining state of living, Aurangzeb decided to end religious toleration and persecuted Hindus | 46 | |
| 105483214 | Zhu Yuanzhang | founded the Ming Dynasty, he was instrumental in overcoming the Mongols, called the Hongwu Emperor, returned to the traditional Chinese culture, he employed scholarly gentry class and Confucian scholars to office, reinstated the civil service exam, tried to end corruption and political incompetence, supported neo-Confucianism (wanted to reinforce the social structure), wanted to make a strong government, eliminated conspiracy against the throne | 47 | |
| 105483215 | How does Zhu Yuanzhang try to help the poor? | lowering the forced labor requirement, supporting the public works projects to create more farmland, encouraged the hand craft industries to increase income, and gave unoccupied lands to peasants if they were going to farm | 48 | |
| 105483216 | The most successful missionaries in China were? | the Jesuits, but eventually they are kicked out and persecuted | 49 | |
| 105483217 | How did the Ming dynasty end? | foreign threat from Japan and Asian nomads, in 1644 a Chinese rebel group overthrew them, but they couldn't build a good government, so the Manchus overtook them and founded Qing dynasty | 50 | |
| 105483218 | Yoritomo Minamoto | ruler of Japan in 1185 (there was still a emperor, but he was a figure head), he was called Shogun "military general", feudalism developed because they didn't have anyone to take care of the normal people | 51 | |
| 105483219 | Diamyas in Japan | nobles | 52 | |
| 105483220 | Samurai | warriors, code of conduct=bushido | 53 | |
| 105483221 | Ronin | paid soldiers | 54 | |
| 105483222 | Ieysu | minor Daimyo made Shogun, he made unification and isolation, wanted to increase the power of the central government and gain greater control over the Daimyo, the rest of the world gets ahead, Europeans wanted to trade but they just linked Asia together, converted Japanese to Christianity, but eventually they were persecuted, traders confined to few cities, key to success, | 55 | |
| 105483223 | How was isolation good for Japan? | revive and celebrate tradition Japanese culture and history, Ieysu founded school national learning, encouraged nationalism, facilitated the rise of Japanese state | 56 | |
| 105483224 | Why does it matter that the Europeans traded with Spice Islands? | closer to global trade networks, more growth of European trade centers, traversed the globe, existing trade routes of the spice network were utilized, some decline in old trading centers, naval warfare, effects of the Columbian exchange | 57 |
