Exploration and Absolutism UPDATED
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Mughals - Correct Answer- Means "Mongols", leader was a descendant of Timur the Lame
Babur - Correct Answer- 11 year old boy who counted both Timur the Lame and Genghis
Khan as ancestors and inherited a kingdom in Central Asia
Sikhs - Correct Answer- Major followers of the Sikhism religion, which supported equality
Shah Jahan - Correct Answer- Jahangir's son and successor, who secured his throne by
assassinating his possible rivals
Taj Mahal - Correct Answer- Memorial for Mumtaz Mahal that Shah Jahan ordered to be "as
beautiful as his beautiful wife"
Aurangzeb - Correct Answer- Shah Jahan's third son who ended up taking the throne
Shivaji - Correct Answer- An influential warrior king whose government included modern
concepts, such as a cabinet of advisors
Prince Henry - Correct Answer- The son of Portugal's King, the nation's most enthusiastic
supporter of exploration
Bartolomeu Dias - Correct Answer- Portuguese captain who ventured far down the coast of
Africa until he and his crew reached the tip
Vasco da Gama - Correct Answer- Portuguese explorer who began exploring the east African
coast
Treaty of Tordesillas - Correct Answer- Treaty Spain and Portugal signed in 1494 in which
they agreed to honor the line in the Americas
, Dutch East India Company - Correct Answer- Company the Netherlands established to direct
trade throughout Asia
Ming Dynasty - Correct Answer- Dynasty in China that became the dominant power in Asia
Hongwu - Correct Answer- A peasant's son who commanded the rebel army that drove the
Mongols out of China, and became the first Ming Emperor
Yonglo - Correct Answer- Hongwu's son who moved the royal court to Beijing
Zheng He - Correct Answer- A Chinese Muslim admiral who led all of the seven voyages
Manchus - Correct Answer- The people northeast of the Great Wall lay Manchuria, who
invaded China and the Ming Dynasty collapsed
Qing Dynasty - Correct Answer- The new Manchu Dynasty that would rule for more than 260
years and expanded China's borders
Kangxi - Correct Answer- Became emperor and reduced government expenses and lowered
taxes
Daimyo - Correct Answer- Warrior-chieftains who became lords in a new kind of Japanese
feudalism
Oda Nobunaga - Correct Answer- A daimyo who defeated his rivals and seized the imperial
capital Kyoto in 1568
Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Correct Answer- Nobunaga's best general, who continued his fallen
leader's mission
Tokugawa Shogunate - Correct Answer- The military government of Japan which would hold
power until 1867
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Mughals - Correct Answer- Means "Mongols", leader was a descendant of Timur the Lame
Babur - Correct Answer- 11 year old boy who counted both Timur the Lame and Genghis
Khan as ancestors and inherited a kingdom in Central Asia
Sikhs - Correct Answer- Major followers of the Sikhism religion, which supported equality
Shah Jahan - Correct Answer- Jahangir's son and successor, who secured his throne by
assassinating his possible rivals
Taj Mahal - Correct Answer- Memorial for Mumtaz Mahal that Shah Jahan ordered to be "as
beautiful as his beautiful wife"
Aurangzeb - Correct Answer- Shah Jahan's third son who ended up taking the throne
Shivaji - Correct Answer- An influential warrior king whose government included modern
concepts, such as a cabinet of advisors
Prince Henry - Correct Answer- The son of Portugal's King, the nation's most enthusiastic
supporter of exploration
Bartolomeu Dias - Correct Answer- Portuguese captain who ventured far down the coast of
Africa until he and his crew reached the tip
Vasco da Gama - Correct Answer- Portuguese explorer who began exploring the east African
coast
Treaty of Tordesillas - Correct Answer- Treaty Spain and Portugal signed in 1494 in which
they agreed to honor the line in the Americas
, Dutch East India Company - Correct Answer- Company the Netherlands established to direct
trade throughout Asia
Ming Dynasty - Correct Answer- Dynasty in China that became the dominant power in Asia
Hongwu - Correct Answer- A peasant's son who commanded the rebel army that drove the
Mongols out of China, and became the first Ming Emperor
Yonglo - Correct Answer- Hongwu's son who moved the royal court to Beijing
Zheng He - Correct Answer- A Chinese Muslim admiral who led all of the seven voyages
Manchus - Correct Answer- The people northeast of the Great Wall lay Manchuria, who
invaded China and the Ming Dynasty collapsed
Qing Dynasty - Correct Answer- The new Manchu Dynasty that would rule for more than 260
years and expanded China's borders
Kangxi - Correct Answer- Became emperor and reduced government expenses and lowered
taxes
Daimyo - Correct Answer- Warrior-chieftains who became lords in a new kind of Japanese
feudalism
Oda Nobunaga - Correct Answer- A daimyo who defeated his rivals and seized the imperial
capital Kyoto in 1568
Toyotomi Hideyoshi - Correct Answer- Nobunaga's best general, who continued his fallen
leader's mission
Tokugawa Shogunate - Correct Answer- The military government of Japan which would hold
power until 1867
