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Name the territory that was added to russia
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asia
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name the political center that served as the focal point for the russian liberation from the mongols
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Duchy of moscow
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name the russian ruler that was a large part of russia freed from mongol control in the 15th century
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Ivan the third
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name the government that ivan the great claims to have succeeded as the third rome
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Byzantine empire
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define cossacks
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peasants recruited to migrate to new lands in byzantine
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following the death of ivan the fourth explain the time of troubles
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russian boyars attempted to limit tsarist autocracy and gain governing rights for themselves
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name the tsar responsible for the abolition of the assemblies of the nobles and reform of the orthodox church
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alexis romanov
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explain the old believers
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russians who wouldnt accept tsarist reforms of orthodox church and who were exhiled to siberia
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name the sea that became critical in the development of russian power during the reign of peter the great
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baltic sea
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name the place where pter the great established a new capital for russia
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st petersburg
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name the industries where peter the greats program of economic development was concentrated
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mining and metallurgic industries
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name the next powerful ruler of russia after pete died
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Catherine the great
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name the redical who urged the abolition of serfdom during the reign of catherine the great
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radishev
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name the areas that were colonized or claimed by the russian empire during the rule of catherine the great
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parts of siberia pacific coast of NA as far south as california poland alaska
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name the countries that participated in the successive partitions of poland
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poland russia prussia austria
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define obrok
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the labor obligation of russian peasants to lords or state
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name the percentage of the russian pop. that remained rural in the 18th century
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95%
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explain what pugachev did in the 1770s
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led russian peasant rebellion
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last one didnt have a question with it but answer is
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Ivan the terrible declared russia the successor of rome
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name the empire that ivan the terrible declared that the russian empire was successor to
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rome
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prior to mongol invasions of their empire, the abbasid dynasty was dominated by what group
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the seljuk turks
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the original base of the ottoman turks was where
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anatolia
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who were the janissaries
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slave troops of ottomans, forcibly conscripted as adolescents from conquered territory
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the head of the ottoman central bureaucracy
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vizier
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one of the most beautiful of the ottoman mosques of Constantinople was
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suleymainye
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what as the chosen language of the ottoman court?
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turkish
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what european nation first threatened the ottoman monopoly of trade east africa and india
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portugal
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which group represented such extreme conservatism within the ottoman empire reform was frustrated
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janissaries
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the center of the safavid empire was the modern-day state of
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iran
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the safavid dynasty had its origins in the fourteenth century in a family devoted to what variant if islam
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sufi
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followers of the safavids' followers were called
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redheads
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the first safavid shah was
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ismail
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the safavid empire reached its greatest extent under shah
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abbas the great
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after chaldiran, the official language of the safavd empire became
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persian
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the capital of the safavid empire under abbas the great was
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isfahan
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the immediate successor of the safavid dynasty in persia was
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naair khan afshar
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who was the founder of the mughal dynasty
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babur
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the first mughal emperor successfully defeated the muslim ruler of the lodi dynasty in 1526 at the battle of
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panibat
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Describe the economy of the Mughal empire
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european traders brought products from throughout asia to exchange for subcontinents famed cotton textiles
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what was the state of the Mughal dynasty at the outset of the reign of Aurangzeb
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Mughal bureaucracy had grown bloated and corrupt
The army was equally bloated and backward in weaponry and tactics Peasants and urban workers had seen their productivity and living standards fall steadily |
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what were the goals of Aurangzeb
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He was determined to extend Mughal control over the whole of the Indian subcontinent and he believed that it was his duty to purify Indian islam and rid it of the hindu influences
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what was the impact of Aurangzeb’s religious policies
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Gravely weakened the internal alliances and disrupted the social peace of Akbar that he had so skillfully established
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what was the Mughal empire following Aurangzeb’s death in 1707
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The empire was far larger than earlier, but control of state revenues passed increasingly to regional lords who gave little more than tribute payments to the emperors
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the relationships of the Muslim empires to the West.
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Failed to match the intellectual and material accomplishments of the west during this period
Muslim scholars continued to take little interest in European learning None of the Islamic people systematically monitored technological advances in Europe Key tax revenue and merchant profits were drained off by the rise of European trading empire in asia |
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How did Caribbean cities differ from those of Europe
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American cities were laid out in a grid plan
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The first Spanish colony in the New World was established on
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Hispaniola
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The grants of Indians to individual Spaniards as a labor system were called
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encomiendas
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What group of Indians supplied agric. Labor for the Spaniards in the Caribbean
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Taino
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The Dominican Friar Bartolome de Las Casas, a conquistador turned priest
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became an ardent supporter of conversion of Indians and an advocate of Indian rights
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The man responsible for the conquest of the Aztec empire in Mexico was
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Hernan Cortes
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Which of the following Indian institutions was retained by the Spanish to serve European administrative purposes
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the Indian nobility
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The colonial govts. Replaced by the labor of the encomienda with Indian labor extracted through local officials. Such labor was called
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mita
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The greatest silver mine was located
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Potosi
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b/c of the switch from indigenous methods of mining to the extraction of silver… America expanded rapidly after
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1580
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The Spanish convoy system that controlled trade with the Americas was made possible of the dev. of
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galleons
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The Treaty of Tordesaillas of 1494 divided the world into spheres of influence belonging to
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Portugal and Castile
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The statement concerning men who conquered much of Latin America
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leadership was based onreputation and past achievement
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The law code that became the basis of law in the Indies
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Recopilacion
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The vice royalties of New spain and Peru were divided into 10 judicial divisons controlled by superior courts
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audencias
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What colony became the first major plantation zone
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brazil
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The first landfall in the colony of Brazil took place in 1500 under
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Pedro Alvares Cabral
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Colonization in Brazil was in the hands of minor Portuguese nobles granted strips of land
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captaincias
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Brazilian model of a plantation colony was later followed in the 18th century by other Euro. Nations in
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the Caribbean
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Gold was discovered in ______ region in Brazil
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Minas Gerais
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Neg. impact of disc. of gold…
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Portugal failed to develop internal industries because the supply of gold allowed the Portuguese to purchase manu. Goods from other Euro. Countries
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Spanish dynasty responsible for the series of the 18th century reforms that recast the colonial administration of the Americas
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Bourbon
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Law code that became basis of law in the Indies
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Recopilacion
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Who was the leader of the Indian Revolution in Peru in 1781
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Tupac Amaru
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The minister responsible for the 18th century reforms within the Spanish empire
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Jose de Galvez
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following the Timurid invasion, the ottoman empire was restored under what leader
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mehmed I
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