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The Mughai ruler who constructed the Taj Mahal was?
Shah Jahan
The ottoman, Safavid, and Mughai empires were all?
Islamic
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughai empires originally came from?
Nomadic Turkish speaking peoples of central Asia
The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was?
Osman Bay
The word ghazi refers to?
Muslim religious warriors
What did the poet Ahmadi indicate was the instrument of the religion of Allah?
the Ghazi
Which of the following empires was inspired by its status as an islamic outpost on the border of the Christian world?
Ottomans
The ottoman institution that provided Balkan slaves for the formation of the Janissaries was the?
Devshirme
The ottoman ruler who captured Constantinople was?
Mehmed II (Mehmed the Conquerer)
The Ottoman ruler Selim the Grim captured?
Syria and Egypt
Suleyman the Magnificent won his greatest victory and killed the king of Hungary at the battle of?
Mohacs
Khayr al-Din Barbarossa Pasha was?
admiral who led the Ottomans to Mediterranean and Indian Ocean
The diplomat Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq wrote with both admiration and fear of the?
Ottoman empire
The Islamic leader who converted to Twelver Shiism was?
Shah Ismail
Central to the belief of Twelver Shiism was the idea that?
there had been 12 infallible imams after Muhammad and that the twelfth had gone into hiding to escape persecution and was still alive and would one day return and take power
The Safavids traced their ancestry back to the leader Safi al-Din, who was what religion?
a Sufi
Shah Ismail recieved the greatest support for his conversion to Twelver Shiism from?
The Gizilbash (red heads)
At the battle of Chaldiran in 1514?
the ottomans deployed heavy artillery/thousands of Janissaries with firearms behind a barrier of carts. Safavids didnt use gunpowder technology because it was "unmanly" and the qizilbash cavalry attacked the Ottoman line. Ottomans badly destroyed Safavid state but couldnt destroy completely-2 empires remained locked in conflict for the next 2 centuries
The leader of the Safavid empire at its peak was?
Shah Ismail
Zahir al-Din Muhammad's main inspiration for conquering India was?
to transform his inheritance into a glorious central Asian empire (father had been the prince of Farghana)
The founder of the Mughal dynasty, and a descendant of Chinggis Khan and Tamerlane, was?
Babur
Which of the following rulers displayed the greatest amount of religious toleration and created "the divine faith"
Akbar
Akbar's answer to the religious diversity and tension of India was to?
Encourage the elaboration of a syncretic religion called the "divine faith" that focused attention on the emperor as a ruler common to all religions in india
The Mughal empire reached its greatest geographic extent during the reign of?
Aurangzeb
The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb?
pushed Mughal authority deep into southern India... faced rebellions and religious tensions/conflict between Hindus&Muslims and he broke with Akbar's policy of religious toleration (was a devout Muslim)
The Ottomans referred to Suleyman as the "Kanuni" or?
The Lawgiver
The steppe tradition that caused the greatest problem for the Islamic empires?
ruler's relatives often managed components of the states, and succession to the throne became a hot contest between competing members of the family
Hurrem Sultana was?
concubine that had influence over Suleyman
Because of protests from moralists, the Ottoman sultan Murad IV?
Outlawed coffee and tobacco
In the 300 years after 1500, the population of India grew from 105 million to?
190 million
To create a favorable environment for trade, Shah Abbas allowed Christian monastic orders to set up missions in what city?
Isfahan
The Christian center of India was?
Goa
Sikhism was a syncretic combination of?
Hinduism and Islam
In the Islamic world, the dhimmi were?
protected people
The jizya was the tax paid by?
the dhimmi
The Islamic leader who abolished the jizya was?
Akbar
Suleyman the Magnificent called on Sinan Pasha to?
Create the most celebrated of all monuments of Istanbul- The Suleymaniye
The ottomans took the Byzantine cathedral Hagia Sofia and?
Converted it into the mosque of Aya Sofya
What islamic city was considered "half the world"?
Isfahan
Fatehpur Sikri was?
A city planned and constructed by Akbar that served as his capital
Shah Jahan was unable to finish the construction of the Taj Mahal because?
Aurangzeb (his son) deposed him before it was done
Which of the following factors was not one of the reasons for the decline of the Islamic empires?
WAS: failure to expand, costly wars, domestic difficulties, social/cultural diversity, conservatism (printing press), corrupt government
Akbar's tolerant religious policies were criticized by the conservative religious leader?
Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindj
PIri Reis was responsible for?
Producing several large scale maps and the book of Seafaring
Ghazi
"The instrument of the religion of Allah"
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