Across
- 3. challenged what was seen as corrupt practices of the Catholic Church. Eventually leaders chose whether to be Protestant or Catholic
- 6. told to collect a certain amount of taxes from an area (ottoman empire).
- 8. religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam
- 10. Reintroduced the Civil Service Exam. Necessary for legitimizing power over the Chinese since the Manchu were seen as foreigners.
- 11. the king is gods representative on earth and carries out his bidding
- 12. The Aztecs demanded specific goods from conquered people, which allowed them to rule a diverse empire without being directly present
- 14. elite soldiers who were loyal to the Shah
- 15. a German monk who wrote 95 theses in 1517, which were 95 propositions that criticized the Catholic Church and nailed them to the church doors
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- 1. title given to islamic emperors to indicate that they were successors to mohammed
- 2. these 2 muslim groups saw each other as heretical and fought each other for land.
- 4. built by French King Louis XIV, to legitimize his power and wealth, also had all his nobility live there as well so he could keep watch over them
- 5. appointed by the emperor to collect taxes based on an individual’s land or production(Mughal Empire).
- 7. enslaved christians, who through training, became loyal to the sultan
- 8. Consolidated power through their military,alliances, and having control over trade routes. Legitimacy established through court rituals of kings
- 9. Christian boys from the Balkans were enslaved & educated to serve the state helped to consolidate power by creating a very loyal bureaucracy and elite military (the Janissaries).
- 13. Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned this building as a tomb for his wife.