3.2 - Empires : Adminstrations

Question 1

Divine Right of Kings

Answer 1

the idea that a king’s power comes from God, so he answers only to God

Question 2

Justices of the Peace

Answer 2

local officials in English who kept order and enforced laws

Question 3

English Bill of Rights

Answer 3

a 1689 law limiting the king’s power and giving Parliament more control

Question 4

Absolutism

Answer 4

a system where a ruler has total, unchecked power

Question 5

Cardinal Richelieu

Answer 5

french leader who strengthened the king’s power and reduced the nobles’ influence

Question 6

Intendants

Answer 6

french government officials who collected taxes and enforced laws for the king

Question 7

Tax Farmers

Answer 7

people who collected taxes for the government and kept some for themselves

Question 8

King Louis XIV

Answer 8

known as the “Sun King,” he ruled France as an absolute monarch and built Versailles

Question 9

Versailles

Answer 9

a grand palace built by King Louis XIV to show off his power

Question 10

Boyars

Answer 10

rich land-owning nobles in Russia

Question 11

Serfdom

Answer 11

a system where peasants were tied to the land and had to work for landowners

Question 12

Ivan IV

Answer 12

“Ivan the Terrible,” the first czar of Russia who expanded the country and limited the boyars’ power

Question 13

Romanov Dynasty

Answer 13

the family that ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917

Question 14

Peter the Great (Peter I)

Answer 14

Russian czar who modernized Russia and built a new capital, St. Petersburg

Question 15

Devshirme

Answer 15

the Ottoman system of taking Christian boys, converting them to Islam, and training them for government of the army

Question 16

Janissaries

Answer 16

elite Ottoman soldiers, often former Christian boys taken through devshirme

Question 17

Daimyo

Answer 17

power Japanese landowners and samurai leaders

Question 18

Edo

Answer 18

the old name for Tokyo, the capital of the Tokugawa shogunate

Question 19

Tokugawa Leyasu

Answer 19

the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, which unified Japan

Question 20

Period of the Great Peace

Answer 20

a time of stability and peace in Japan under Tokugawa rule

Question 21

Tokugawa Shogunate

Answer 21

a military government in Japan that ruled from 1603 to 1868

Question 22

Akbar

Answer 22

a tolerant Mughal emperor who strengthened and expanded the empire in India

Question 23

Dehli

Answer 23

a major city in India and a capital for many empires, including the Mughals

Question 24

Zamindars

Answer 24

local officials in India who collected taxes for the Mughal empire

Question 25

Askia the Great

Answer 25

a leader of the Songhair Empire in West Africa, known for his reforms and support of Islam

Question 26

Taj Mahal

Answer 26

a famous white marble tomb in India, built by Shah Jahan for his wife

Question 27

Shah Jahan

Answer 27

Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal

Question 28

Tax Farming

Answer 28

a system where the government lets people collect taxes and keep some as payment

Question 29

Tributes

Answer 29

payments made by one ruler or state to another, usually for protection or to show respect