The Ottoman Empire Vocabulary

Question 1

Ottoman Empire

Answer 1

The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman.

Question 2

Janissaries

Answer 2

A member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan’s guard between the 14th and 19th centuries.

Question 3

Sultan

Answer 3

A Muslim sovereign.

Question 4

Sultanate

Answer 4

A feminine form of sultan, used by Westerners, is sultana or sultanah.

Question 5

Harem

Answer 5

(in former times) The separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants.

Question 6

Aurangzeb

Answer 6

“honouring the throne” in Persian, This was the name of a 17th-century Mughal emperor of India.

Question 7

Shah

Answer 7

A title of the former monarch of Iran.

Question 8

Maratha Kingdom

Answer 8

The Maratha Empire or the Maratha Confederacy was an Indian power that existed from 1674 to 1818 and ruled over much of the Indian sub-continent.

Question 9

Timur the Lame

Answer 9

A Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.

Question 10

Mehmed the Conqueror

Answer 10

An Ottoman sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.

Question 11

Emperor Akbar

Answer 11

Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death, He was the third and one of the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India.

Question 12

Nur Jahan

Answer 12

The twentieth but most beloved, and therefore most important consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

Question 13

Delhi

Answer 13

A massive metropolitan area in the country’s north.

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Sufism

Answer 14

The mystical system of the Sufis.

Question 15

Sikishim

Answer 15

A monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.

Question 16

Taj Mahal

Answer 16

An ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra.

Question 17

Safavid

Answer 17

A member of a dynasty that ruled Persia 1502–1736 and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.

Question 18

Ismail Abbas

Answer 18

An Iraqi man who drew a lot of media attention after being severely injured in a night-time aerial missile attack near Baghdad during the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Question 19

Sufis

Answer 19

A Muslim ascetic and mystic.

Question 20

Suleyman

Answer 20

The tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to his death in 1566.

Question 21

Esmail

Answer 21

An Arabic given name, it corresponds to the English name Ishmael.

Question 22

Safidon

Answer 22

A city and a municipal committee in Jind district in the Indian state of Haryana.

Question 23

Kizilbash

Answer 23

The label given to a wide variety of Shi’i militant groups that flourished in Azerbaijan and Anatolia from the late 15th century onwards, some of which contributed to the foundation of the Safavid dynasty of Iran.

Question 24

Rajputs

Answer 24

A member of a Hindu military caste claiming Kshatriya descent.

Question 25

Sikh Faith

Answer 25

A monotheistic religion originated in the Punjab region of the Indian Subcontinent during the 15th century.