Muslim Empires

Which Ottoman Emperor captured Constantinople in 1453?

• Mehmed II the Conqueror
• Othman
• Suleyman the Magnificent
• Abbas the Great

Which religion was practiced by the Ottomans?

• Christian
• Buddhism
• Sunni Islam
• Shia Islam

Recruited from the local Christian population in the Balkans, the janissaries were

• a guerrilla army that sought to drive out the Ottoman Turks.
• religious zealots who sought to convert Muslims to Mohommadism.
• used to teach sports to the Sultan’s children.
• converted to Islam and trained as foot soldiers or administrators to serve the sultan.

The Ottoman central government appointed officials called ____.

• politicos
• viziers
• pashas
• ulemas

The hereditary nature of the position of sultan

• added stability to the Egyptian Empire, a major factor in its long life.
• led to struggles over succession between the sons of the sultan.
• resulted in inbreeding, which caused the ultimate decay of the Ottoman Empire.
• formed the basis of democracy in the Ottoman Empire.

What was the name of the group of Ottoman religious advisers that administered the legal system and schools for educating Muslims?

• pasha
• vizier
• politicos
• ulema

Under Shah Abbas, the Safavid dynasty

• reached the high point of its glory.
• rapidly declined until it was too weak to fight off its many enemies.
• suffered an invasion by Moroccan peoples, who captured the capital of Isfahan.
• witnessed a relaxation of traditional religious beliefs.

The Safavids differed from many of their Islamic neighbors because they were ardent

• Sunnis.
• Catholics.
• Shias.
• pacifists.

In the late thirteenth century, a new group of Turks under their leader Osman began to build power in

• Syria.
• the western end of the Danube Valley.
• the northwest corner of the Anatolian Peninsula.
• the eastern end of India

Under the leadership of ____, the Ottomans conquered Constantinople and gained dominance over the Balkans and the Anatolian Peninsula.

• Sultan Selim I
• Mehmet II
• Ali
• Sinan