| A | B |
|---|
| Sir Robert Clive | Led the British East India Company to victory over the Indians |
| Nur Jahan | Wife of Jahangir who forced her husband to marry her niece to his third son |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Daimyo of Edo (Tokyo) who later declared himself shogun |
| Sinan | Greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire |
| Matsuo Basho | Greatest Japanese poet |
| Babur | Founder of the Mogul Empire |
| Li Zicheng | Led a peasant revolt against the Ming rulers |
| Aurangzeb | He killed his two brothers to secure himself as leader of the Mogul Empire |
| Selim I | Ruler of the Ottoman Empire who declared himself Caliph |
| Francis Xavier | Jesuit missionary who converted many Japanese |
| Lord George MaCartney | British trader who demanded more trading posts from the Chines but was denied |
| Suleyman I | Ottoman ruler who called himself "The Magnificent" |
| Zheng He | Chinese explorer who led may voyages to Africa that brought huge profits to China |
| Yi Songye | Established the Yi Dynasty |
| Sha Jahan | Mogul ruler who depleted the treasury through many wars |
| Bosporus and Dardanelles straights | valuable waterways that linked the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea |
| Janissaries | elite military guard of the Ottoman Empire |
| Pashas | local rulers of the Ottoman Empire |
| Constantinople | renamed Istanbul |
| sultan | leader of the Ottoman Empire |
| hereditary | passed on to a family member |
| Taj Mahal | greatest structure created by the Mogul Empire |
| Beijing | nicknamed Imperial City |
| Manchus | from Northern China; conquered China and set up Qing Dynasty |
| Queue | hairstyle in which you saved the front ot your head and braided your hair in a long pony tail |
| Banners | military units set up by Manchus |
| clan | hundreds of related family members in China |
| Commercial Capitalism | idea that private businesses are established to make a profit |
| Daimyo | the heads of noble families in Japan |
| Shogun | Japanese ruler |
| Hans | territories in Japan |
| Hostage System | Japan required officials to have two homes |
| Cash Crops | crops grown to sell |
| Hangul | Korean language |
| Hermit Kingdom | name given to Korea |
| What is a mosque? | a place where muslims worship |
| Why was it difficult for the Moguls to rule India? | The Moguls were outsiders. They were Muslim and most of the Indians were Hindus. |
| What was the Suttee? | an old Hindu practice where the wife has to be burned with her husband when he dies |
| How was the queue used in China? | The Manchus (Qing Dynasty) required the queue to show loyalty to the government. |
| What was footbinding and how was it used in China? | Women had to wrap their feet tightly to keep them small. It was used to keep women subordinate to (under) their husbands. |
