Ottoman Empire Quiz

the Ottoman leader who led the successful capture of the Byzantine city of Constantinople also known as "The Conqueror"

• Mehmed II

• Seljuk Turks

• Jan Sobieski III

• Fall of Constantinople

King of Poland who led the campaign that drove the Turks from Vienna

• Jan Sobieski III

• Ghengis Khan (Chinggis Khan)

• Mehmed II

• Seljuk Turks

The final defeat of the Byzantine Empire in 1453 by the Ottoman Turks

• Fall of Constantinople

• Mehmed II

• Seljuk Turks

• Holy Roman Empire

the appointment of religious officials, like priests and bishops, by kings or nobles

• The Crusades

• Siege of Vienna (1683)

• Lay Investiture

• Black Plague

Leader of the Roman Catholic Church who asked European Christians to take up arms against Muslims, starting the Crusades

• Fall of Constantinople

• Pope Urban II

• Ottoman Empire

• Holy Roman Empire

The last Ottoman attempt to invade central Europe which was defeated by the Holy League, a partnership between Austria and the Poland

• Lay Investiture

• The Crusades

• Siege of Vienna (1683)

• Black Plague

A medieval and early modern central European Germanic empire, which traced its history back to Charlemagne and claimed to be a successor to the Western Roman Empire.

• Fall of Constantinople

• Ottoman Empire

• Holy Roman Empire

• Pope Urban II

A naval battle between the Ottoman Turks and a coalition of Christian powers led by Spain which ended in a decisive Christian victory, halting the ottoman advance into Europe.

• Ottoman Empire

• Battle of Lepanto (1571)

• Holy Roman Empire

• Turning Point

Jerusalem and other places in Palestine thought to be holy or special by Christians, Jews, and Muslims

• Black Plague

• Holy Land

• The Crusades

• Mongols

Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453-1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe.

• Holy Roman Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Fall of Constantinople

• Pope Urban II