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| When did religious tolerance start eroding in the Ottoman Empire? |
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| Which Ottoman sultan conquered Constantinople in 1453? |
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| Which Ottoman sultan wiped out the Byzantine Empire? |
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| What important city was conquered by Mehmed II in 1453? |
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| The arch enemies of the Ottomans, ruled by a powerful dynasty in Iran. |
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| What state religion did the Safavids eventually adopt? |
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| Who was the founder of the Ottoman Empire? |
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| When did Osman establish the Ottoman Empire? |
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| What were the 2 categories that the Ottoman people were divided into? |
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| Rulers, administrators, elite military. |
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| Were the Askari born into their situation? |
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| The ruled: peasants, nomads, townspeople. Literally, flocks. |
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| The collection of Balkan boys for use as Jannisaries. |
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| What was the Ottoman census-like report? |
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| The tax payed by non-Muslims for religious autonomy. |
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| What was the tax payed by non-Muslims for religious autonomy. |
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| The Ottoman census-like report. |
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| Was there a chance for the Reaya to become Askari? |
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| Yes, they could be sponsored and petitioned for access to Askari. They could also volunteer in the military in an attempt to move up in rank. |
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| Who was the son and successor of Osman? |
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| Who was the second sultan of the Ottoman Empire? |
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| Who was the son and successor of Orhan? |
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| From which group did the Ottoman's separate from in 1299? |
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| Who was the 3rd Ottoman sultan? |
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| Which sultan was nicknamed the conqueror? |
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| Which sultan with the name of Mehmed was nicknamed "the conqueror"? |
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| Which sultan commissioned a giant cannon to be built to conquer Constantinople? |
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| How did the sultan Selim "the grim" come to power? |
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| He forced his father Bayezit II to abdicate the throne. |
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| What did Selim "the grim" do after seizing the sultanate from his father? |
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| He killed off many of his family members. |
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| When did Selim "the grim" take power in the Ottoman Empire? |
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| By how much did the sultan Selim the "grim" expand the Ottoman territories? |
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| Which Ottoman sultan destroyed the Mamluk sultanate? |
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| Which Ottoman sultan first conquered Mecca and Medina? |
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| During which sultan's rule did the Ottoman Empire declare themselves as the guardians of Islam? |
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| Which sultan is known as "the lawgiver" for reconstructing the entire Ottoman legal system? |
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| Sulayman the Magnificent. |
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| Which sultan led the first attempt to capture the city of Vienna? |
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| Suleyman the Magnificent. |
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| Where were many of Suleyman the Magnificent's officials from? |
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| Which sultan is well known for the architecture built during their reign, 100 mosques and 57 universities? |
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| Suleyman the Magnificent. |
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| Which sultan embodies the zenith of the Ottoman Empire? |
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| Sulayman the Magnificent. |
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| When was the peak of Ottoman territorial claims? |
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| Which sultan was the last one to rule with absolute power? |
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| Who founded the Republic of Turkey? |
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| When was the Republic of Turkey founded by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk? |
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| What is the more politically correct term for Wahhabism? |
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| What was the name of the religious doctrine propogated by Mughal Emperor Akbar? |
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| Who was the Muslim conqueror to establish the Mughal dynasty? |
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| The Muslim conquerer to establish the Mughal Empire in India. |
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| The Mughal emperor grandson of Babur. Propagated his own cult, the Divine Faith. |
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| What was the Delhi sultanate? |
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| The Muslim kingdoms in India. |
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| The Mulim empire in the eastern middle east which is responsible for launching Islam in Hindu lands. |
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| A sufi order from Anatolia, mixture of many different traditions. |
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| Who are the Sharifs of Mecca? |
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| The protectors of the pilgrimage. |
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| What did the Sharif of Mecca have to be? |
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| A descendant of Muhammad. |
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| What was the Sykes-Picot Agreement? |
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| In 1916, a secret agreement between the governments of the UK and France, with the assent of Imperial Russia, defining their respective spheres of influence and control in west Asia after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. |
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| What was the Balfour Declaration? |
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| The declaration by the British, declaring Palestine as a Jewish national home. |
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| What is Ottoman law that is not Sharia? |
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| What was the Sultanate of Women? |
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| the near 130-year period during the 16th and 17th centuries when the women of the Imperial Harem of the Ottoman Empire exerted extraordinary political influence. Many of the Sultans during this time were minors and it was their mothers, leaders of the Harem, who effectively ruled the Empire. |
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| What was the Holy League? |
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| The Holy League of 1571 was arranged by Pope St. Pius V and included almost all the major Catholic maritime states in the Mediterranean. It was intended to break Ottoman Turks' control of the eastern Mediterranean Sea and was formally concluded on 25 May 1571. Its members were the Papal States, the Habsburg states of Spain, Naples and Sicily, the Republic of Venice, the Republic of Genoa, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, the Duchies of Savoy, Parma and Urbino and the Knights of Malta. |
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| Who was Muhammad Ali Pasha? |
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| the "founder of modern Egypt". Though not a modern nationalist, he instituted dramatic reforms in the military, economic, and cultural spheres. The dynasty he established would rule Egypt until the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. |
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| Who took power in Egypt after pushing out the French? |
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| a 14th century Turko-Mongol[3][4] conqueror of much of western and Central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty (1370–1405) in Central Asia, which survived until 1857 as the Mughal Empire of India. |
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| Who were the Young Turks? |
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| a coalition of various groups favoring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favored a re-installation of the Kanûn-ı Esâsî and they established the second constitutional era in 1908 |
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| Which sultan was overthrown in the Young Turk Revolution? |
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