WG_Ch. 6.1_Practice_Quiz

At its peak in the 1500s, The Ottoman Empire stretched through ____?

• Western Asia

• North Africa

• Europe

• All are correct

A group of religious scholars who served as advisors to the Sultan; administered legal systems and schools for educating Muslims were the ______?

• Ulema

• Janissary

• Grand Vizier

• Pasha

Mehmed II laid siege to what city that was a strategic Geographic target

• Jerusalem

• Mecca

• Constantinople

• Medina

After its capture, Mehmed II renamed Constantinople _______

• Turkey

• Istanbul

• Nazareth

• Mecca

Match the following

• Gunpowder Empire

• The Sultan's chief minister

• A soldier in the Elite Guard of the Ottomans

• Haram

• The private chamber of the Sultan, where he and his wives lived.

• Sultan

• Grand Vizier

• Janissary

• The military and political head of state

• Empire formed by outside conquerors who unified regions they conquered through mastery of firearms

The Sultan Selim I conquered the key religious cities of ____?

• Jerusalem

• Mecca

• Medina

• All are correct

Selim I named himself ____, which means defender of the faith.

• Grand Inquisitor

• King of Kings

• Caliph

• All are Correct

The title of Sultan was a ______ title

• bestowed by God

• elected

• position won by one on one combat

• hereditary

In 1520, a new Sultan named _____ defeated the Hungarians.

• Mehmed II

• Mehmed I

• Suleyman I The Magnificent

• Osman

An appointed official of the Ottoman Empire who collected taxes, maintained law and order, and was directly responsible to the Sultan's court is a ______ ?

• Grand Vizier

• Pasha

• Ulema

• Janissary