Chapter 17

Question 1

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Ottomans (p. 412)

Question 2

Identify and explain the significance of the:
shah (p. 416)

Question 3

Identify and explain the significance of the:
sultan (p. 413)

Question 4

Identify and explain the significance of the:
viziers (p. 415)

Question 5

Identify and explain the significance of the:
devshirme (p. 416)

Question 6

Identify and explain the significance of the:
janissaries (p. 416)

Question 7

Identify and explain the significance of the:
concubine (p. 416)

Question 8

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Safavid (p. 416)

Question 9

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Qizilbash (p. 417)

Question 10

Identify and explain the significance of the:
ulama (p. 417)

Question 11

Identify and explain the significance of the:
Mughal (p. 417)
sepoys (p. 429)

Question 12

Identify and explain the significance of the:
sepoys (p. 429)

Question 13

How were the three Islamic empires established, and what sorts of governments did they set up? (p. 412)

Question 14

What cultural advances occurred under the rule of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires? (p. 419)

Question 15

How did Christians, Jews, Hindus, and other non-Muslims fare under these Islamic states? (p. 425)

Question 16

How were the Islamic empires affected by the gradual shift toward trade routes that bypassed their lands? (p. 426)

Question 17

What common factors led to the decline of central power in the Islamic empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? (p. 430)

Question 18

In what sense were the states of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals empires rather than large states? Do all three equally deserve the term “empire”? Why or why not?

Question 19

How did the expansion of European presence in the Indian Ocean after1450 impinge on the societies and economies of each of the Islamic empires?

Question 20

What made it possible for Islamic rulers to tolerate more religious difference than European Christian rulers of the same period did (Chapters 14 and 15)?

Question 21

Reign of Osman, founder of the Ottoman Dynasty
Ottoman Empire

Answer 21

1299-1326

Question 22

Ottoman Empire

Answer 22

1299-1922

Question 23

Life of Timur

Answer 23

1336-1405

Question 24

Italian Renaissance

Answer 24

ca. 1350-1520

Question 25

Ming Dynasty in China

Answer 25

1368-1644

Question 26

Zheng He’s naval expeditions (Ch. 21)

Answer 26

1405-1433

Question 27

Aztec Empire dominates Mesoamerica (Ch. 11)

Answer 27

ca 1428-1521

Question 28

Inca Empire dominates the Andes (Ch. 11)

Answer 28

ca. 1438-1532

Question 29

Coffeehouses become center of Islamic male social life

Answer 29

mid 1400

Question 30

Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

Answer 30

1453

Question 31

Songhai kingdom dominates the western Sudan (Ch. 20)

Answer 31

ca. 1464-1591

Question 32

Columbus lands on San Salvador

Answer 32

1492

Question 33

Safavid Empire in Persia

Answer 33

1501-1772

Question 34

Luther’s Ninety-five Theses (Ch. 15)

Answer 34

1517

Question 35

Reign of Ottoman sultan Suleiman |

Answer 35

1520-1566

Question 36

Mughal Empire in India

Answer 36

1526-1857

Question 37

Reign of Akbar in Mughal Empire

Answer 37

1556-1605

Question 38

Construction of Taj Mahal under Shah Jahan in India

Answer 38

1631-1648

Question 39

European Enlightenment (Ch. 19)

Answer 39

ca. 1690-1789

Question 40

Treaty of Paris recognizes British control over much of India

Answer 40

1763