1500s
Mughal Political system
Autocracy (emperors)
Safavid Political system
Autocracy under a Shah
Ottoman political system
Autocracy, centralized government, sultans > local leaders, separated religions into millets
Aztec location
Central mexico
Ming Political System
Civil service examination, absolute monarchy, centralized government
Ming people
Conquered mongols and took control, imposed Chinese culture
Aztec people
Conquered people for labor and sacrificses
Mughal people
Depending on emperor, politicized caste system
Aztec Political system
Different city states, monarchy with king called Huey tlatoani
Songhai cities
Djenne, Timbuktu, Gao
Ottoman location
Eurasia and Africa, Anatolia to Eastern Europe, around black sea, Middle east, coastal north Africa
Ottoman people
Gave people religious autonomy (had to pay extra taxes)
Mughal location
India
Songhai religion
Islam
Mughal religions
Islam (government) Hindu (population)
Songhai people
Killed conquered people, or made them slaves
Ming language
Madarin
Songhai trade
Trans-saharan trade route (Timbuktu)
Ottoman language
Turkish, Arabic, persian
Ming Location
Western China
Songhailocation
Western africa
Inca location
Western coast of South America, 2,500 miles
Inca gender roles
Women at home, men worked outside, valued equally
Safavid gender roles
Women had no rights, women in elite families were secluded and had to wear veils
Ottoman Gender Roles
Women had some legal/financial autonomy (religion dictated gender relations)
Ming gender roles
Women stayed at home, men had control over family and fought
Aztec gender roles
Women stayed at home, men worked (warriors, leaders) co-equal
Songhai gender roles
men worked (warriors, farmers, miners) noble men as judges, priests, doctors, women cooked, cleaned, sometimes farmed
Aztec religion
Polytheistic, sacrificed people to please gods
Inca language
Quechua
Inca achievements
Roads, communication, accounting, terraces for year round food, freeze drying, bridges, brain surgery
Inca trade
Royal highway (by land)
Songhai political system
Ruled by royal family, autocracy
Safavid location
Modern day iran
Inca government
Monarchy, tightly controlled, divided into 4 quarters, federalist system
Aztec language
Nahuatl
Ming Religion
Open minded, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam
Safavid Language
Persian Azerbaijani, Georgian, Circassian, armenian
Mughal Language
Persian, Arabic
Inca religion
Polytheistic, descended from sun god
Safavid religion
Shia Islam (spread through state, tolerant but encouraged conversion, non Muslims were not allowed to convert others away from Islam)
Ming trade
Silk Road
Ottoman Religions
Sunni Islam (government and sultan), population (Christian, Muslim, Jewish) took over Jerusalem and Constantinople
Mughal gender roles
upper class women were secluded but could have education, lower class stayed at home but could own land
