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Chapter 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The founder of the Mughal Empire was ? | Babur |
| Mughal is Persian for | Mongol |
| What surprising military similarity did the Mughals have with the Safavids? | Lack of a navy. |
| The Mughal Empire was quite prosperous in the sixteenth century because they | Traded cotton cloth., had an efficient government system, faced few external threats. |
| Mansabs were a similar feature to the Ottoman Empire, being: | land grants in exchange for service. |
| Which of the following was part of Akbar's policy of religious reconciliation between Muslims and Hindus? | The elimination of the tax on non-Muslims. |
| Among Akbar's cultural accomplishments that did not survive him was | a "divine faith" that incorporated Zoroastrianism, Muslim and Hindu beliefs. |
| Nadir Shah's sack of Delhi is symbolized by what act? | Confiscating the peacock throne. |
| Which of the following is a reason for the decline of the Mughals under Aurangzeb? | The land-grant system, resistance in the southern provinces, alienation of the Sikhs, and the symbolic loss of the peacock throne from Delhi. |
| With the fragmentation of Mughal political order, who became president of an independent European stronghold of Pondicherry on India's east coast? | Joseph Francois Dupleix |
| Why did the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires decline simultaneously? | Inability to adjust to the changes in military technology and the world economy |
| In 1453, the Ottoman armies attacked Constantinople and brought an end to | Byzantine rule |
| The sultan, also known as "The Lawgiver," who presided over a "golden age" and the greatest Ottoman assault on Christian Europe was | Suleiman the Magnificent. |