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Chapter 21: The Muslim Empires
1. What event was most directly responsible for the rise of the gun powder empires in Turkey, Iran, and India and similar states in Tsarist Russia and Ming China?
a. the invention of gunpowder
b. the collapse of the Mongol Empire and its khanates
c. the arrival of western European merchants in the area
d. the revival of trade across Eurasia
e. steppe nomads founded all five states
2. The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires shared all of these characteristics EXCEPT:
a. They originated in Turkish nomadic cultures of the steppe.
b. They were Muslim led.
c. They were based on conquest and the use of military technologies.
d. They began with absolutist rulers and efficient bureaucracies.
e. They ruled predominantly Muslim populations.
3. The class which initially dominated the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal states and social hierarchy was
a. decendants of slaves (Mameluks).
b. a military aristocracy.
c. the clergy.
d. the merchant class.
e. largely composed of intellectuals and scholars
4. In order to supply its elite Janissaries and palace bureaucrats with soldiers, the Turks
a. used feudal levies.
b. relied on old Muslim nobles and aristocrats.
c. forcibly conscripted young Christian boys, converted them to Islam, and trained them.
d. imported trained foreigners and mercenaries.
e. relied on Muslim clergy.
5. All of these developments weakened the rule of the Ottoman government EXCEPT:
a. powerful factions within the Janissaries and court bureaucrats.
b. harem politics by rival wives and their sons, who were potential heirs.
c. the hedonistic lifestyles of many sultans.
d. corruption and graft.
e. the development of the office of vizier.
6. The Safavids arose to power in Persia primarily due to a. their support for the Shi’ite cause.
b. an alliance with Portuguese merchants and soldiers.
c. their conversion from Islam to Christianity.
d. a monopoly on military technologies and guns.
e.
1. What event was most directly responsible for the rise of the gun powder empires in Turkey, Iran, and India and similar states in Tsarist Russia and Ming China?
a. the invention of gunpowder
b. the collapse of the Mongol Empire and its khanates
c. the arrival of western European merchants in the area
d. the revival of trade across Eurasia
e. steppe nomads founded all five states
2. The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires shared all of these characteristics EXCEPT:
a. They originated in Turkish nomadic cultures of the steppe.
b. They were Muslim led.
c. They were based on conquest and the use of military technologies.
d. They began with absolutist rulers and efficient bureaucracies.
e. They ruled predominantly Muslim populations.
3. The class which initially dominated the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal states and social hierarchy was
a. decendants of slaves (Mameluks).
b. a military aristocracy.
c. the clergy.
d. the merchant class.
e. largely composed of intellectuals and scholars
4. In order to supply its elite Janissaries and palace bureaucrats with soldiers, the Turks
a. used feudal levies.
b. relied on old Muslim nobles and aristocrats.
c. forcibly conscripted young Christian boys, converted them to Islam, and trained them.
d. imported trained foreigners and mercenaries.
e. relied on Muslim clergy.
5. All of these developments weakened the rule of the Ottoman government EXCEPT:
a. powerful factions within the Janissaries and court bureaucrats.
b. harem politics by rival wives and their sons, who were potential heirs.
c. the hedonistic lifestyles of many sultans.
d. corruption and graft.
e. the development of the office of vizier.
6. The Safavids arose to power in Persia primarily due to a. their support for the Shi’ite cause.
b. an alliance with Portuguese merchants and soldiers.
c. their conversion from Islam to Christianity.
d. a monopoly on military technologies and guns.
e.