Ap Flashcards

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