Chapter 18: The Muslim World Expands

This was the term for a warrior for Islam who belonged to a military society with a strict code of conduct.

• devshirme

• ghazi

• Akbar

• Isma'il

In the West, he was called Othman, and his followers were known as Ottomans.

• Timur

• Osman

• Mehmed II

• Selim the Grim

He was known both as "the Lawgiver" and as "the Magnificent."

• Timur

• Mehmed II

• Suleiman

• Selim the Grim

He earned the title "the Conqueror" by leading the Ottomans in conquering Constantinople.

• Osman

• Mehmed II

• Suleyman I

• Selim the Grim

He was a warrior who became an able ruler. He turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque and changed the name of Constantinople to Istanbul.

• Osman

• Timur

• Suleyman I

• Mehmed II

This warrior and conqueror defeated the Ottoman forces in the Battle of Ankara in 1402, stopping the expansion of the Ottoman empire.

• Timur the Lame

• Osman

• Mehmed II

• Selim the Grim

As the first Ottoman leader, he built a small state in Anatolia that his successors would expand. He died not realizing that his conquests marked the birth of history's largest and longest-lived empires.

• Timur

• Osman

• Mehmed II

• Selim the Grim

This Mughal emperor built the Taj Mahal in memory of his beloved wife.

• Shah Abbas

• Shah Jahan

• Nur Jahan

• Aurangzeb

Although this son of Akbar was an extremely weak ruler, he wisely left the affairs of state to his more capable wife.

• Shah Jahan

• Nur Jahan

• Aurangzeb

• Jahangir

It was under this Mughal emperor that the empire expanded to its greatest size. Even so, the power of the empire weakened greatly during his reign.

• Babur

• Akbar

• Aurangzeb

• Shah Jahan