World History Unit 3 Study Guide

Moscow, Russia was called this; a Russian myth that Moscow was ordained to succeed Rome and Constantinople as the center of true Christianity

Beijing. a city in China that was restricted to everyone but the royal family.

3 unrhymed lines (5, 7, 5) usually focusing on nature

A Russian emperor

A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai

A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance, it is the type of theatre in Japan(Played buy all male actors)

a mountainous republic in southeastern Asia on the Bay of Bengal

St. Petersburg, a city built on newly conquered lands near Baltic Sea

Japan's self-imposed isolation from the outer world that lasted 2 centuries until 1854

a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans

a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay peninsula

Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts

a member of the society of Jesus, a religious order founded in the early A.D. 1530s by St. Ignatius of Loyloa

A Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy

a hereditary military dictator of Japan

Jesuit priest that went to China and impressed the officials with their European science

An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa

A commodore in the American navy. He forced Japan into opening its doors to trade, thus brining western influence to Japan while showing American might.

The house that ruled Prussia, they gradually won control over the Brandenburg through mariages, giving them control of German principalities in central and western Germany.

Prussia's most famous king who became involved in a costly war with France (1744-1797)

Controlled Austria, Hungary, and parts of the Holy Roman Empire. They stayed in power over 700 years (until WW1)

Empress of Austria, 1740-1780, made sure all her children were educated, did away with forced labor for peasants of Austria, the reforms made-brought greater equality for Austrian society

Queen of France (wife of Louis XVI) who was unpopular for her extravagance and opposition to reform contributed to the overthrow of the monarchy; she was guillotined along with her husband (1755-1793)

Russian family that came to power in 1613 and ruled for three centuries.

Czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government

Danish navigator and explorer. He led several Russian expeditions to determine whether Asia and North America were connected by land. The Bering Sea and Bering Strait are named after him.

Russian Empress from 1762 to 1796, added new lands to Russia, encouraged science, art, literature, Russia became one of Europe's most powerful nations

Chinese dynasty between 1368-1644. Economy flourished, Border Policy was good, but not well enough enforced, as they were taken over by the Manchu from the North in 1644; name means "brilliant"; called the last dynasty of China because the last pure Chinese dynasty and one of the great ones

known as the Manchu (Manzhou); , (1644-1911 CE), the last imperial dynasty of China which was overthrown by revolutionaries; was ruled by the Manchu people: began to isolate themselves from Western culture

Led Jesuit missionaries to Asia where by 1550 thousands of natives had been converted to Christianity in India, Indonesia, and Japan

A powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603-1867, characterized by a samurai ruling class, urbanization, and the growth of a merchant class. Top-down approaches worked to solve environmental problems.

First emperor of the Ming Dynasty in 1368; originally of peasant lineage; original name Zhu Yuanzhang; drove out Mongol influence; restored position of scholar-gentry

Chinese Qing emperor (r. 1661-1722) who promoted Confucian ideas and policies and expanded the Qing empire (Captured Taiwan, Mongolia, and parts of Central Asia- Tibet)

Capital of Prussia

A small part of the Holy Roman Empire, but due to the strong leadership of the Hohenzollern royal family super power of Europe and the basis for the future nation of Germany

Capital of Russia; became the most important city in Russia after the Mongols were defeated

Sea located between Europe and Asia north of Turkey.

Capital of Austria

Built by Peter the Great; a new place and a new capital city; "window on the West" (port to Baltic Sea)

a sea in northern Europe

Austria's powerful non-Christian enemy

Capital city of the Ming Dynasty; became famous with its center known as the "Forbidden City"

The capital and largest city of Japan; formally known as Edo

The only place the few foreigners could live in Japan

The capital city of medieval Japan.

capital city of Japan during the rule of Tokugawa shoguns; modern day Tokyo

Spanish

Netherlands

Britian

French

Britian

Russia

Men taxed unless they shaved their beards, women had to wear different clothes, and tried to force Western customs upon the nobility.

Prussia

So Maria Theresa could keep her throne. She kept throne, but lost a lot of territory to Prussia

Rome and Catholic, also known as the 3rd Rome

Feudalism and Orthodox Christian, she was born in Germany

They were the most impressive accomplishments of the Ming Dynasty lead by Cheng Ho; Their largest ships were the most advanced ships on earth with watertight compartments; Some scholars believe that his ships may have even visited the Americas

Chinese officials thought these voyages were a waste of money which was needed for defense and their luxurious capital city

hard sciences and technology

Zheng He

Japan

China

China wanted more people, but Japan wanted to stick to customs

Thailand, because they did not want a change, and strongly were against it