GUNPOWDER EMPIRES 2013:
1. What was the longest of the empires-Ottoman or Mughal?
2. How were the Ottomans able to capture Constantinople?
3. What empire was Constantinople part of before it was captured?
4. What ruler presided over the “golden age” of the Ottoman Empire?
5. As Ottoman armies pressed into Eastern Europe, what country did they fight many wars with?
6. Who were the janissaries?
7. What was the devshirme system?
8. Why were there so many Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire?
9. The Ottoman Empire was in “balance”. What does that mean?
10. The sultan saw his role of governing his “flock” as doing what?
11. What caused inflation in the Ottoman Empire in the 16th C?
12. What is tax farming?
13. What was the result of the decline of the Ottoman administrative control and rural disorder?
14. What products that the Ottoman produced caused them to become involved in the European commercial network?
15. Describe Islamic art.
16. Where was the Mughal Empire?
17. Who founded the Mughal Empire?
18. What product made the Mughal Empire so prosperous in the 16th C?
19. How did Akbar try to make it easier for the Hindus and Muslims to accept each other?
20. What are some things Akbar did for his empire?
21. What was the Sikh “army of the pure”?
22. Why did the Mughal Empire decline?
23. Why did the Ottoman Empire decline?
24. Who benefited from the decline of both empires?
25. Why did extensive Islamic expansion into East Africa and Southeast Asia occur?
26. What European country occupied the East African port cities?
27. What is Neo-Confucianism? How did it affect the Ming and Qing?
28. How did Shah Abbas reform the Safavid Empire?
29. What customs did the Qing adopt from the Ming? What did they change?
30. There will be questions from the readings on Suleiman, Tokugawa restrictions, and Peter the Great’s Edicts.