Essential Question:

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• Essential Question
• What are the essential ideas of the Gunpowder
  Empires, Qing China, Japan?
• Warm-Up Question
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1. Gunpowder Empires
The Safavid Empire
The Mughal Empire
The Ottoman Empire
Common traits Islamic, gunpowder technology,
cultural blending
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5. Janissaries
2. The Ottoman Empire
Suleyman the Lawgiver created a law code
4. Suleyman the Magnificent
3. Sultan
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6. The Safavid Empire
Abbas introduced tolerance, began a merit-based
govt, art flourished (esp. carpets)
7. Sultan
8. Shah Abbas
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12. Divine Faith
13. Taj Mahal
9. The Mughal Empire
10. Babur
Akbars greatest achievement was cultural
blending religious tolerance
11. Akbar
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14. Qing China
But, Emperor Kangxi kept Confucian beliefs,
lowered taxes, restoring peace prosperity,
returned China to isolation

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15. Manchus
16. Kangxi
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17. Japanese Feudalism
18. Daimyo
19. Samurai
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20. Shogun
22. Tokugawa Ieyasu
21. Oda Nobunaga
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Nagasaki Bay
Deshima
Dutch Ships
Japan
Tokugawa Shogunate
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Unit 8 Essential Questions

• What were the accomplishments (in religion, law
  and/or art) of (a) Suleyman the Magnificent
  Ottomans (b) Abbas I Safavids (c) Akbar
  Mughals
• How were the policies of the Tokugawa rulers of
  Japan and Qing rulers of China similar and
  different?
• How were areas of Asia being impacted by
  Europeans around 1750?