Ottoman Empire Quiz

What was the title given to the ruler of the Ottoman Empire?

• Janissary
• Rajput
• Sultan
• Mansabdar

What religion did the Ottoman Empire help spread throughout their empire?

• Buddhism

• Christianity

• Shintoism

• Islam

True or False: The Ottomans required that all the peoples they conquered converted to the Islamic religion or they were executed.

• False
• True

____ were an elite guard of Ottoman soldiers.

• sinans

• ulema

• pashas

• janissaries

What ancient empire did the Ottomans end?

• China
• Arab
• Byzantine
• none are true

Whoever controlled the Byzantine Empire controlled what?

• all the gold available
• new inventions and ideas
• trade between Europe and Asia
• Islam

What city did the Ottoman Empire conquer in 1453 putting an end to the Byzantium Empire?

• Rome

• Constantinople

• Athens

• Vienna

Which technology, first developed by the Chinese, enabled the Ottoman Empire to expand militarily into western Asia, Europe, and northern Africa?

• woodblock printing

• wheelbarrow

• gunpowder

• magnetic compass

Suleman was known to westerners as the Magnificent, but to many others he was known as the

• Gravedigger

• Enlightened

• Lawgiver

• Peace Maker

A non-Muslim area of the empire was referred to as.....

• Mullet
• ghetto
• Millet
• Quarantine