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Eastern Empire Study Guide


Students will read the section and answer the following questions from each section.

Ottoman Empire:
What is an empire and how many leaders do they have?
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What is a “ Sultan?”
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Why was Suleyman the Magnificent called the Magnificent?
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What is another word for Ghazis?
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What made the Janissaries more than just Ghazis?
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What is the word that means to take over land from another group?
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Constantinople is captured by the Ottomans and renamed what?
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What new technology helped the Ottomans become dominant in the region?
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China:
What did the following people do for China?
Hongwu Zhu Yuanzhang, later Hongwu Emperor, was the founder and first emperor of China's Ming
dynasty. The reign of the Hongwu Emperor is notable for his unprecedented political
reforms. The emperor abolished the position of chancellor, drastically reduced the role of
court eunuchs, and adopted draconian measures to address corruption. He also established
the Embroidered Uniform Guard, one of the best known secret police organizations in
imperial China.

Yonglo

Zheng He
Kangxi

Define the following vocab words.


Expelled

Import

Export

Isolate

Foriegn

Isolate (change
dummy.

Decline

Japan:
What was the order of unifiers of Japan and what major description did they do?

Tokugawa Ieyasu Oda Nobunaga Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Started the process of unification Finished the unficiation period and Continued unifying Japan and
brought many years of peace to ruled during their golden age.
Japan

Fill in the social order of Japan to the right. Remember the


higher up, the more power and help they do for people.

Warriors
Emperor
Artisans
Merchants
Peasants/Farmers

What was the first European country to trade with Japan?


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With Japan ending or losing its isolationism, which class from


the social order becomes more powerful?
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Why did Japan have a time of peace under the Tokugawa Shogunate?
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