Chapter Nineteen Flashcards
how did the ottomans capture of christian territories in the balkins late in the fourteenth century enhance ottoman military strength?
It gave them Christian prisoners of war to use as military slaves
what was the most long lived post mongol muslim empire?
The Ottoman Empire
when the ottoman sultan needed money to support the janissaries in the sixteenth century he raised it
by reducing the number of landholding cavalry so that he could keep their share of the taxes
why were the ottomans sultans male relatives kept confined to the palace after the mid seventeenth century?
this way the sultan could keep them from meddling in politics or from planning coups.
the portuguese left the safavid island of hormuz in 1622 because
the english brought soldiers to hormuz so that the safavids could expel them
what single factor distinguished the mughal empire from the ottoman and safavid empires?
the majority of indian society was non muslim
akbars religious attitude can best be described as
Tolerant and inquisitive
how was ‘the army of the pure’ formed?
to defend sikh beliefs
