Transcript Paths to Power Jeopardy

WORTH:
Successful and Un-Successful
Paths to Power
The Maritime
Powers
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Ottoman
Empire
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Poland and
Austria
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Prussia
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500
Russia
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WORTH:
What was the Dutch East Indies
Company?
MAIN
This was the company that
had shares that were traded
on the Bourse and controlled
the Netherlands Sea-borne
Empire and helped bring
huge amounts of money to
the Republic.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Maritime Powers
MAIN
What was the Mississippi
Bubble Scandal?
This was the scandal that took
place in France that was
manipulated by John Law, a
Scottish gambler and
mathematician, and implicated
and bankrupted many of most
influential people in the
Kingdom.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Maritime Powers
MAIN
Who was Robert Walpole?
He is considered Britain’s first
Prime Minister who took over
after the South Sea Bubble
scandal and remained in office
by his support of the George I,
and II and the patronage
system.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Maritime Powers
MAIN
Who was Cardinal Fleury?
He was the advisor to Louis XV and was
considered to be the last of the great
clerical advisors to the French Kings
who helped maintain the peace in
France but was unable to solve the
financial problems.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Maritime Powers
MAIN
What was the Tulip?
This particular product or crop
caused speculation in the
Netherlands and eventually led
to a scandal of sorts for the
Dutch, by spending too much
time and money to perfect this
cash crop.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT:The Maritime Powers
What were millets?
MAIN
This was the administrative
or religious community
that the Ottoman sultan
used to govern his vast
and diverse empire.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Ottoman
Empire
MAIN
Who were the Dhimmis?
These were the people in the
Ottoman Empire that were
not Muslims but were still
tolerated and allowed to
live in relative freedom in
their communities after
paying a jizyah or poll tax.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Ottoman
Empire
MAIN
Who were the Janissaries?
This was the name given to the
troops of the Ottoman Empire
often recruited from the
young boys of the Christian
communities on the Balkan
Peninsula.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Ottoman
Empire
Who was King John III Sobieski?
MAIN
This was the King of Poland
who saved Vienna from an
attack by the Ottoman Empire
and resulted in the Sultan’s
execution of the Ottoman
General who waged the
unsuccessful campaign.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Ottoman
Empire
MAIN
Who were the Ulama?
These were the religious clerics
and scholars who were
consulted by Ottoman
government officials before
making decisions and became
more conservative and
reactionary as Europe
modernized.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Ottoman
Empire
MAIN
What was the liberum veto?
This is what often kept the
Polish Diet or Sejm from being
effective or even creating any
sort of government policy.
WORTH:
Poland and Austria
500
400
200 300
MAIN
Who was Leopold I of Austria
( Hapsburg)?
He was the Austrian Emperor
who was able to have his
domains in Hungary recognized
by the Ottoman Turks and
resisted the power of Louis XIV
as well as conquer most of the
Balkan Peninsula and parts of
Romania.
WORTH:
Poland and Austria
500
400
200 300
What was the Pragmatic Sanction?
MAIN
This was the agreement
that Charles VI of Austria
had the rulers of Europe
sign in order to allow his
daughter to rule the
Austrian Empire.
WORTH:
Poland and Austria
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200 300
What was the Treaty of Carlowitz?
MAIN
This was the Treaty that the
Ottoman Turks signed with a
League of European nations that
opposed them consisting of
Austria, Poland, Malta, Venice,
Tuscany, and Russia in 1699?
WORTH:
Poland and Austria
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200 300
MAIN
What was the Crown of St.
Wenceslas in the Kingdom of
Bohemia and the Crown of St.
Stephen in Hungary?
These are the two crowns that
Austria secured making them
part of the Austrian Empire and
yet also pointed out some of the
problems of ruling a diverse
religious, multinational and
multicultural Kingdom.
WORTH:
Poland and Austria
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400
200 300
Who were the Junkers – Yumpin
MAIN
Yiminy it’s the Yunkers
These were the nobles of Prussia
who agreed to follow the
Hohnezollern rule in exchange
for absolute power over their
serfs.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Prussia
MAIN
Who was Frederick William I?
He was the Prussian leader who
increased the size of the
Prussian army to become one
of the largest in Europe and
formed the General Directory to
improve the efficiency of his
government.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Prussia
MAIN
Who was Frederick William
(The Great Elector) ?
He was the ruler of Brandenburg
– Prussia in 1640 – 1688 who
was the first to begin to
consolidate Hohenzollern lands
into what would become the
nation state of Prussia.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Prussia
What was Silesia?
MAIN
This was the rich mining area
of the Austrian Empire that
was seized by Frederick II (
The Great) and started the
War of the Austrian
Succession.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Prussia
MAIN
What was Pomerania? ( land
of little yappy lapdogs)
This was the German province
that was partially lost to Sweden
after the Treaty of Westphalia in
1648, but Prussia was
compensated by receiving three
new bishoprics and the archbishopric of Magdeburg when it
became available.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Prussia
Who were the streltsy?
MAIN
These were the guards of the
Moscow garrison who revolted
and almost overthrew the weak
Russian government in 1682.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Russia
MAIN
Who was Peter the Great?
This was the Russian Tsar who
traveled to western Europe in
order to learn shipbuilding
expertise and military hardware
in disguise as a poor 6’ 9” giant.
( hard to disguise that)
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Russia
MAIN
What was shave their beards,
replace their fur hats and big
robes and curved shoes?
This is what Peter the Great
encouraged nobles to do in
order to look more western.
(often by force).
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Russia
MAIN
What was the Great Northern
War 1700-1721 ?
This is the war that Peter the
Great fought against Sweden
in his drive to secure a port
on the Baltic Sea.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Russia
What was the Table of Ranks?
MAIN
This was Peter the Great’s
administrative reform that
attempted to enlist state
support of the Russian boyars
and base a nobles social
position on their service to the
state.
WORTH:
200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Russia