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LD AP World II Ch 19
LD AP World II Chapter 19 - Questions/Answers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the conqueror of the Byzantine empire in 1453? | Mehmed II |
| Slave troops of the Ottoman empire forcibly conscripted as adolescents from conquered territories were called | Janissaries |
| What was the principle of succession within the Ottoman empire? | The Ottoman empire lacked a principle of succession. |
| The Safavid family had its origins in the fourteenth century in a family devoted to what variant of Islam? | The Shi'a |
| Which of the following was a result of the Ottoman loss of monopoly over the Indian trade? | Direct carriage of eastern goods to ports in the West implied loss of revenues in taxes in Muslim trading centers. |
| The Ottoman empire halted the advance of Shi'ism and the Safavids at the critical battle of | Chaldiran |
| Which of the following represents a similarity between the Ottomans and the Safavids? | Both recruited regiments from slave boys |
| What Shah was responsible for the greatest patronage of the arts and for the rebuilding of much of Isfahan? | Abbas the Great |
| Which of the following represents a difference between the Safavid and Ottoman economies? | The Safavid market economy was more constricted than that of the Ottomans. |
| What was the status of women in the Islamic heartlands during the early modern period is most accurate? | Many women in the Islamic heartlands in this era struggled against social restrictions in dress and confinement. |
| The founder of the Mughal dynasty was | Babur |
| Whom did the first Mughal emperor defeat at the battle of Panipat in 1526? | Muslim ruler of Delhi |
| Which of the following is an accomplishment of Babur? | He wrote one of the great histories of India. |
| What was the economy of the Mughal empire? | European traders brought products from throughout Asia to exchange for the subcontinent's famed cotton textiles. |
| The Ottoman Janissaries were legally slaves originally recruited from conquered territories as adolescents (True or False) | True |
| The real power of the Ottoman rulers persisted much longer than that of the Abbasids. (True or False) | True |
| The later Safavid Shahs played down claims to divinity that had been set forth under Ismail and ceased claiming descent from one of the Shi'ite imams. (True or False) | False |
| The Safavid economy was generally more market oriented than that of the Ottomans because of their sponsorship of Portuguese trade. (True or False) | False |
| The Mughal emperor Akbar promoted Hindus to the highest ranks of his government, ended a longstanding ban on the building of new Hindu temples, and ordered Muslims to respect cows. (True or False) | True |
| By the 1350s the __________ had advanced from their strongholds in Asia Minor across the Bosporus into Europe. | Ottomans |
| In May 1453 the city of Constantinople fell to the armies of __________, called the Conqueror. | Mehmed II |
| The Ottoman imperial armies were increasingly dominated by troops called __________, men who had been forcibly conscripted as adolescent boys in conquered territories. | Janissaries |
| Day-to-day administration in the Ottoman empire was carried out by a large bureaucracy headed by a grand __________. | Vizier |
| The most spectacular mosque built during the Ottoman era was the __________, built during the reign of one of the most successful sultans. | Suleymaniye |
| Like the Ottomans, the __________ arose from the struggles of rival Turkic groups in the wake of Timurid invasions, but they espoused the Shi'ite variant of Islam. | Safavids |
| In the early fourteenth century a Sufi, __________, began a militant campaign to purify and reform Islam among the Turkic tribes of Iran | Sail al-Din |
| As the numbers of the "__________" (as the followers of the Safavids were called) grew, they faced increasing resistance based on religious opposition. | Red Heads |
| In 1501 a Sufi commander named __________ took the city of Tabriz and was proclaimed shah or emperor | Ismail |
| In August of 1514 the Ottoman empire dealt the Safavids a severe setback at the battle of __________. | Chaldiran |
| The Safavid empire reached the height of its strength and prosperity under Shah __________. | Abbas the Great |
| Although the later Safavid Shahs played down claims to divinity that had been set forth under Ismail and his predecessors, they continued to claim descent from one of the Shi'ite __________ or successors of Ali. | imams |
| __________, who were both local mosque officials and prayer leaders, were also supervised by and given some support from the Safavid state. | Mullahs |
| The splendid seat of Safavid power, the capital at __________, was laid out around a great square. | Isfahan |
| Following the fall of the Safavid capital in 1722, a soldier-adventurer named __________ proclaimed himself Shah in 1736. | Nadir Khan Afshar |
| _________ led his followers into India in 1526 because he had lost his original kingdom centered on Farghana in central Asia in the preceding decades. | Babur |
| Having found a foothold in Kabul in 1545, __________ launched a series of campaigns into India that gradually restored Mughal rule in 1556. | Humayan |
| The Mughal ruler __________ pursued a policy of reconciliation and cooperation with the Hindu princes. | Akbar |
| Akbar considered his new religion, the __________, which blended elements of many faiths with which he was familiar, as the long-term key to his efforts to reconcile Hindus and Muslims. | Din-i-Ilahi |
| Akbar did legally prohibit __________ or the immolation of high-caste Hindu women on their husbands' funeral pyre. | Sati |
| The best-known architectural work of the Mughal world was the __________ which fused the Hindu love of ornament with the Islamic genius for domes and arches. | Taj Mahal |
| Jahangir's wife, __________, continually amassed power and her faction dominated the empire for much of the later years of Jahangir's reign. | Nur Jahan |
| __________, Shah Jahan's son and successor, seized control of an empire that was threatened by internal decay and growing dangers from external enemies. | Aurangzeb |
| The rise of new religious sects like the __________ in northwest India further strained the declining resources of an imperial system that was clearly overextended | Sikhs |
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