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Chapter 19
The Muslim Empires
Question | Answer |
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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 |