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Chapter 19
The Muslim Empires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an elite soldier of the Ottoman Turks | janissary |
| an empire formed by outside conquerors who unified conquered regions through firearms | gunpowder empire |
| the military and political leader of the Ottoman Empire and Seljuk Turks | sultan |
| the "home" of the sultan, where he and his wives lived | harem |
| the chief minister of the sultan | grand vizier |
| an appointed official in the Ottoman Empire, who collected taxes and maintained law | pasha |
| the group of religious advisers to the Ottoman sultans | ulema |
| the term for "king" used in Iran and Persia | shah |
| traditional religious beliefs | orthodoxy |
| political disorder, chaos | anarchy |
| a local official in Mogul India who received land for collecting taxes | zamindar |
| the Hindu custom of cremating a widow on her husband's funeral pyre | suttee |
| he started the Ottoman empire | Osman |
| the Safavid Empire was based in this area | Persia |
| the Mogul Empire was based in this area | India |
| the Ottoman Empire was mainly based in this area | Anatolian Peninsula |
| all three Muslim empires began in this area | Central Asian steppes |
| the Ottoman conquered this capital of the Byzantine Empire | Constantinople |
| Constantinople was renamed this, and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire | Istanbul |
| he gained the title "the Conqueror" as he was sultan of the Ottoman Empire when the Byzantine Empire was conquered | Mehmed II |
| he was sultan when the Ottoman Empire reached its height | Suleyman |
| he had the titles, "the Magnificent" and "the Lawgiver" | Suleyman |
| this church was converted into a mosque, sending shock waves throughout Europe | Hagia Sophia |
| he was sultan of the Ottoman Empire when Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Arabia were conquered | Selim I |
| the Ottomans and Moguls practiced this type of Islam | Sunni |
| the main architectural contributions of the Ottomans were in this type of building | mosques |
| when a sultan died, this person became the next sultan | his son |
| in the Ottoman Empire, these people had more rights than elsewhere in the world at the time | women |
| these two Western products were introduced to the Ottoman Empire, leading to laws prohibiting them by the government | coffee and tobacco |
| he started the Safavid Empire | Shah Esmail |
| the Safavid Empire practiced this type of Islam | Shia |
| these two empires fought each other over territory in western Persia | Safavid and Ottoman |
| in the Safavid empire, this was the center of commerce | the bazaar |
| these two religions came into conflict in India | Islam and Hinduism |
| he started the Mogul Empire | Babur |
| Genghis Khan and Timer Lenk were ancestors of this leader | Babur |
| by 1605, he had brought Mogul rule to most of India | Akbar |
| this Mogul leader built the Taj Mahal as a tomb for his wife | Shah Jahan |
| this European country came to India and helped to end Mogul rule there | Great Britain |
| the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople in this year | 1453 |
| the Ottoman Empire began in this century | late 13th |
| the Safavid Empire began in this century | early 16th |
| the Mogul Empire began in this century | early 16th |
| he created many policies that ended religious tolerance of Hindu customs in Mogul India | Aurangzeb |
| this British company began collecting taxes around Calcutta, India in the mid 18th century | East India Company |
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