World Civilizations: The Global Experience AP Edition
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| 616217995 | Who founded the Mughal empire? | Babur "the Tiger" | 0 | |
| 616217996 | Which Ottoman sultan completed the long-desired conquest of Constantinople in 1453 C.E.? | Mehmed II | 1 | |
| 616217997 | What were Janissaries? | professional slave soldiers who became a major political power throughout the Ottoman sultanate | 2 | |
| 616217998 | Which masterpiece of Ottoman construction is arguably the greatest achievement of Islamic architecture? | the Suleymaniye mosque | 3 | |
| 616217999 | What forces contributed to the slow process of Ottoman decline? | -The empire was overstretched to a degree that pre-industrial transportation and communications facilities could not overcome. -Widespread corruption and graft by local officials drained revenues and resources needed to maintain central authority. -Power struggles within the Ottoman military apparatus coincided with the appearance of effective and determined adversaries. -Succession struggles led to a series of weak, poorly educated sultans who lacked knowledge of the empire they ruled. | 4 | |
| 616218000 | The Safavid empire embraced which strain of militant Islam? | Shi'a | 5 | |
| 616218001 | The Safavids established their first imperial capital in the city of... | Tabriz | 6 | |
| 616218002 | What common characteristics permeated both the Ottoman and Safavid empires? | -Both spent enormous sums on public works projects. -Both imposed patriarchal codes and practices that secluded and disadvantaged women. -Both encouraged trade and handicraft production within their empires, and used state revenues to finance production and export of luxury goods such as silk and rugs. -Both were dominated by warrior aristocracies who gradually retreated to their rural estates and weakened imperial authority through persecution of peasants. | 7 | |
| 616218003 | Din-i-Ilahi was... | ...a state religion created by Akbar that blended most of the world's religions in an effort to end sectarian tension and religious intolerance. | 8 | |
| 616218004 | Which commodity produced in Mughal India became one of the most important in the new world economy, particularly in western Europe? | textiles, particularly cotton | 9 | |
| 616218005 | What common characteristics linked the Ottoman, Muslim, and Safavid empires? | -All three took advantage of the power vacuum left by the breakup of the Mongol empire and the devastation wrought by Timur-i-Lang. -All three, once in power, demonstrated great tolerance for the faiths of their non-Muslim subjects. -All three relied heavily on skilled use of gunpowder weaponry, particularly cannons and muskets. -All three descended from Turkic-speaking nomadic groups originating in central Asia. | 10 | |
| 616218006 | The Ottoman empire was geared toward... | ...warfare and expansion. | 11 | |
| 616218007 | Which elite social groups, powerful during the earlier Arab caliphates, managed to maintain their status within the Ottoman empire? | Islamic religious scholars and legal experts | 12 | |
| 616218008 | By the seventeenth century C.E., what language was preferred throughout the Ottoman bureaucracy as well as for literary and poetic expression? | Turkish | 13 | |
| 616218009 | What perspective of the Ottoman sultans, inherited from their Arab, Turkic, and Persian predecessors, proved fatal to Ottoman power and vitality? | the conviction that nothing important happened in Europe | 14 | |
| 616218010 | Which battle in northern Persia between Sunni and Shi'a forces in 1514 C.E. is arguably the most significant in Islamic history? | the Battle of Chaldiran | 15 | |
| 616218011 | Which Safavid shah succeeded in establishing his empire as a major center of international trade and Islamic culture? | Abbas I | 16 | |
| 616218012 | What policy direction did Akbar undertake with Hindu princes and the Hindu majority of his realm? | reconciliation and cooperation | 17 | |
| 616218013 | What social and cultural practices did Akbar attempt to eliminate or alleviate during his reign? | -alcoholism -child marriage -urban poverty -patriarchal practices such as sati and purdah | 18 | |
| 616218014 | Mughal architecture blends which two architectural traditions into a beautiful synthesis? | Persian and Hindu | 19 | |
| 616218015 | At the battle of Khanua, Babur copied techniques of the... | ...Turks. | 20 | |
| 616218016 | Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in... | ...1453. | 21 | |
| 616218017 | Janissaries were legally... | ...slaves. | 22 | |
| 616218018 | For what did all successive rulers after Mehmed seek to be remembered? | efforts to beautify the capital | 23 | |
| 616218020 | Which of the following played a pivotal role in the cultural life of Constantinople? | coffeehouses | 24 | |
| 616218022 | The Ottoman state was built upon... | ...war and territorial expansion. | 25 | |
| 616218024 | The Ottomans were defeated by _________ during the battle of Lepanto. | Spain and Venice | 26 | |
| 616218026 | Which of the following, introduced by Europeans, resulted in devastating losses on the battlefield for the Ottomans? | light field artillery | 27 | |
| 616218028 | Red Heads refers to _________ followers. | Safavid | 28 | |
| 616218030 | Who made the greatest use of Russian youth, captured and converted to Islam? | Abbas I | 29 | |
| 616218032 | A ________ is a local mosque official and prayer leader. | mullah | 30 | |
| 616218034 | Who encouraged trade with Western powers in addition to merchants in the east? | Abbas I | 31 | |
| 616218036 | Isfahan was besieged in... | 1722 | 32 | |
| 616218038 | Which of the following rulers had a taste for art and music? | Babur | 33 | |
| 616218040 | The vizier is the overall head of the imperial administration. | true | 34 | |
| 616218042 | Akbar sought to unite India under his rule. | true | 35 | |
| 616218044 | Akbar made no effort to improve the position of women in his empire. | false | 36 | |
| 616218047 | During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Ottoman empire was viewed at the "sick man" of Europe | true | 37 | |
| 616218049 | Jahangir and Shah Jahan are best known for having the Taj Mahal built. | true | 38 | |
| 616218051 | By the seventeenth century, Persian was the preferred language of the Ottoman court. | false | 39 | |
| 616218053 | The battle at Chaldiran was a clash over Ottoman expansion into the Middle East. | false | 40 | |
| 616218055 | Within the Ottoman courts, wives and concubines of rulers exerted very little power. | false | 41 | |
| 616218057 | The Safavid dynasty had its origins in Sufi mysticism. | true | 42 | |
| 616218060 | The Ottomans became a strong naval power in the Red Sea. | false | 43 | |
| 616218062 | Which of the following helps explain the widespread rise of the three new Muslim empires during the early modern period? | their use of gunpowder weapons | 44 | |
| 616218064 | The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires shared these characteristics... | -they originated in Turkish nomadic cultures of the steppe. -they all ruled predominantly Muslim populations. -they were based on conquest and the use of military technologies. | 45 | |
| 616218066 | In order to supply its elite Janissaries and palace with soldiers, the Ottoman rulers... | ...conscripted Balkan Christian boys and converted them to Islam. | 46 | |
| 616218068 | During their reign, Safavid policies in Persia... | ...fostered a sense of Persian religious culture and social unity. | 47 | |
| 616218070 | Although the Ottomans and the Safavids were bitter political and religious rivals, which of the following is an accurate description of a similarity between them? | They patronized the arts and encouraged foreign and domestic trade. | 48 | |
| 616218072 | The decline of the Ottomans can be traced to all the following... | -the oversight of the empire hindered by poor communications and corruption. -the weakening of the Sultan's power to due to succession disputes. -the battle of Chaldiran which marked the end of Ottoman military supremacy. | 49 | |
| 616218074 | Akbar envisioned reforming India by attempting to implement all of the following policies... | -reforming military and administrative training procedures. -the creation of a universalist religion. -child marriage and widowhood traditions. | 50 |
