Name __________________ Date ________ Per_______ STUDY GUIDE EMPIRES

BACKGROUND FOR QUIZ

THEMES and big ideas:
(1) What makes a great leader?
(2) How do empires rise and fall from power?
(3) Is America an empire? Are we rising in power or falling? How can we learn from these
empires to make our country better?

YOU WILL HAVE A TEST ON THESE EMPIRES AT THE END OF PRESENTATIONS, so your hw every
night will be to create flashcards and study. At any time, you may have a POP QUIZ where you can
use your notes so make sure you are taking detailed notes and bringing your notes to class every
day.
 An optional way to review is to read the textbook sections for these empires. Ming p.102-
103, Qing p.205, Ottoman p.75, Tokugawa p. 109-110, Aztec p.122, Inca p.122, Mughal p.82-
86

SKILLS DEVELOPED that you may be tested un during your quiz

-how to do an in text citation
-how to create an MLA bibliography without using a computer. Do NOT memorize the format – I will
provide you with a perfect example and you will have to fix examples that have mistakes in them or
create new bibliographies.

This study guide will be collected with your test, flashcards and short answers will be checked daily.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR HW: CREATING FLASHCARDS

(1) Flashcards do NOT need to be on index cards but this preferred. It is fine to use pieces of paper.
(2) Put an important question about them on front
(3) Put the DEFINITION on back and LABEL the name of the empire
(4) Draw a quick picture to help you remember

Example:

Who were the Janissaries?

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OTTOMAN EMPIRE HW: Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

(1) Who was SULIEMAN THE MAGNIFICENT?

(2) Who were the JANISSARIES?
(3) How did the Ottomans use CANNONS AND CAVALRY to gain the largest empire of the 1500s?
(4) How did the Ottomans maintain control over their diverse empire even though they were Muslim?
(5) What were HAREMS?
(6) What three reasons caused the fall of the Ottoman Empire?

REVIEW: BIG IDEAS & EMPIRE LESSONS FROM THE OTTOMANS

 You need to have a clear way to hand over power otherwise your country will fall into chaos
 People will not rebel if they are happy and treated well (RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IS A NECESSITY)
 Your empire will die if your government becomes corrupt and wastes money or doesn’t build its
technology.

MUGHAL EMPIRE HW: Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

(1) Why was BABUR important?

(2) Why was AKBAR THE GREAT important?
(3) What was the TAJ MAHAL?
(4) How did the Mughals use RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE to their advantage?
(5) Why was AURANGZEB important?
(6) What country led to the fall of the Mughal Empire?

REVIEW: BIG IDEA & EMPIRE LESSONS FROM THE MUGHALS

 People will not rebel if they are happy and treated well (RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE IS A NECESSITY)
 Your empire will die if your government becomes corrupt and wastes money or doesn’t build its
technology.

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MING EMPIRE HW: Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

1) Why was HONGWU important?

2) How was CONFUCIANISM used to control the population?
3) Why was the EXAMINATION SYSTEM important?
4) Why was the Great Wall important?
5) Why was the Forbidden City important?
6) Why was Zheng He important?
7) Why did the Ming pursue isolationism?
8) How did the Ming Empire fall from power?

QING EMPIRE HW: Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

1) Why did were the Manchus viewed as foreigners?

2) What was the Banner System?
3) What was the Dual System?
4) Why was the Queue used?
5) Why was Kangxi important?
6) How did the Opium War cause the fall of the Qing?

TOKUGAWA EMPIRE HW : Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

(1) Who was Tokugawa Ieyasu?

(2) What was the social structure of Japan?
(3) How was bushido used as a form of control
(4) What was the Hostage System?
(5) Who was Mathew Perry?
(6) What was the Meiji Restoration?

REVIEW: BIG IDEAS FROM THE ASIAN EMPIRES

(1) Isolationism may seem like a good way to protect yourself, but ultimately it reduces trade and
prevents you from learning from other cultures.
(2) Social customs - like the religion/philosophy of Confucianism and Bushido is a good way to control
people as they are now UNIFIED by a common belief and feel united by a common goal and culture.
People who feel like the belong to something are less likely to rebel.

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AZTEC EMPIRE HW: Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

(1) Why Tenochtitlan important?

(2) Why were aqueducts important?
(3) Give two reasons why human sacrifice practiced.
(4) Who was Montezuma?
(5) Who was Cortez?

Inca Empire HW: Create flashcards on the following terms/ideas:

(1) Why was Pachacuti important?

(2) What is important about MACHU PICCU? (other than the fact that your teacher threw up on a public
street while hiking down from it)
(3) What was TERRACING?
(4) How was the ROAD SYSTEM advanced and how did it help keep control?
(5) Why was Pizarro important?
(6) Why was Atahualppa important?

Review: BIG IDEAS FROM THE NEW WORLD CIVILIZATIONS

1) Creating a common culture helps rule over a people, the Aztecs and Incans did that through religion.
2) You can also rule through fear and order – having a strict criminal justice system or a road system that
makes it easy to crush rebellions.

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 INSTRUCTIONS: Possible short answer

A) ANSWER ON A SEPARATE SHEET OF PAPER AND ATTACH IT TO THIS ONE

B) ANSWERS MUST BE HIGH SCHOOL PARAGRAPHS OF AT LEAST 5 SENTENCES
C) MAKE SURE EACH HAS:
__Unique Topic Sentence
___ Frequent use of VOCABULARY and specific detail
___Closing Statement
___Evidence of revision. Paragraph has been proofread for:
__Possible spelling mistakes are circled
__ All names of people, countries, or time periods are capitalized
___ No sentence starts with AND, BUT, BECAUSE, or SO (Change so to “Therefore, “)

Possible short answer questions…

(1) What causes the fall of an empire? You must compare at least three empires and describe…

 one empire that falls due to OUTISDE INVASION

 one empire that falls due to NATURAL DISASTERS OR DISEASE
 one empire that falls due to CIVIL WAR AND/OR CORRUPTION

(2) An empire that uses happiness to control its people is more likely to succeed for a longer time than an empire that
uses fear.

 Justify or argue against this statement

 evaluate how effective the Aztecs control through fear was
 evaluate how effective the Ottomans control through happiness was

(3) Describe at least two different reasons empires sought isolationism and how it affected them? Think about
isolationism under the….

 Tokugawa Empire
 Qing Empire
 Ming Empire

(4) What traits make someone a great leader?

Discuss all of these great leaders:

 Sulieman the Magnifcent
 Akbar the Great
 Kangxi

(5) The Aztec and the Inca were accused of being savages by the Spanish. Select one, Aztec or Inca, to discuss why this
was untrue.

 For Incas, discuss Machu Picchu, terracing, road system.

 For Aztecs, discuss Sun Calendar, Tenochtitlan, and aqueducts as examples as to why this is not true.