AP W. Hist Ch 27

The Mughal ruler who constructed the Taj Mahal was

• Shah Jahan.
• Akbar.
• Zahir al-Din Muhammad.
• Osman Bey.

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires were all

• Islamic.
• Christian.
• animistic.
• Zoroastrian.

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires all originally came from

• descendants of the prophet Muhammad.
• renegade Byzantine generals.
• offshoots of the older Mongol empires.
• nomadic, Turkish-speaking tribes.

The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was

• Süleyman the Magnificent.
• Osman Bey.
• Selim the Grim.
• Mehmed II.

The word ghazi refers to

• the tax that non-Muslims paid in Islamic countries.
• Islamic merchants with protected social status in Ottoman society.
• the law codes of Süleyman.
• Muslim religious warriors.

Which of the following empires began as an Islamic frontier state on the border of the Christian world?

• Ottoman
• Safavid
• Mughal
• Yuan

The Ottoman institution that provided Balkan slaves for the formation of the Janissaries was the

•  jizya.
• devshirme.
• dhimmi.
• sharia.

The Ottoman ruler who captured Constantinople was

• Mehmed II.
• Babur.
• Süleyman the Magnificent.
• Selim the Grim.
  

In the sixteenth century, the Ottomans captured

• Constantinople and Otranto.
• Isfahan and Delhi.
  
• Greece and Italy.
  
• Egypt and Syria.
  

 Süleyman the Magnificent in 1529 inflicted a brief and terrifying siege on the Habsburgs' prized city of

• Vienna.
• Mohács.
• Belgrade.
  
• Chaldiran.