WorksheetsGunpowder Empires
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 16mins
The Ottoman and Safavids were the first to use this military invention throughout their empire:
Ships
Telescopes
Gunpowder
Bows and arrows
The Ottomans controlled trade because:
They owned major port and land trade routes
They were technologically advanced
They conquered anyone who opposed them
Suleiman The Magnificent was loved by many people
Ottoman society was divided into classes. The "men of the pen" were the class of people who were:
soldiers and guards of the sultan
farmers and animal herders
merchants and tax collectors
scientists and teachers
The Janizaries were an elite military unit composed of:
Top Muslim officers in the Ottoman empire
captured and converted Christians
Former Roman and Mongol soldiers
Former Crusaders from the Byzantine empire
By the 1700s, the Shiite Safavids in old Persia lost their empire to Sunni Muslim rebels. Persia became a new country known today as:
Turkey
India
Iran
China
Istanbul became the new Ottoman capital. It was known before as:
Rome
Athens
Constantinople
Jerusalem
To be a "Janizarie" in Ottoman society, you needed to be a:
very intelligent person
non-muslim
related to the Sultan
willing to leave your family
Indicate True or False: The Ottoman empire did NOT allow any practice of non-muslim faiths.
True
False
