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Ottoman Empire
Can you answer these questions about important events and leaders of the Ottoman Empire?
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Last updated: December 11, 2025
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1. Who founded the Ottoman Empire in 1299?
Bayezid I
Orhan I
Murad I
Osman I
2. What was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire called?
Caliph
Czar
Emir
Sultan
3. Where did the leaders of Ottoman Empire and his many wives live in Istanbul?
Rumeli Fortress
Anatolian Fortress
Topkapi Palace
Dolmabahce Palace
4. What city, today called Edirne, was the second capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1369 to 1453, before Constantinople became its capital?
Callipolis
Singidunum
Izmir
Adrianople
5. What army did Ottomans defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
Serbian
Albanian
Hungarian
Bulgarian
6. Who were the elite battle soldiers who were selected from Christian families at a young age?
Established in the 14th century, the Janissaries first served as the Sultan’s bodyguard. They were among the world’s most effective military forces in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Viziers
Cossacks
Templars
Janissaries
7. Who led the Ottoman Empire in capturing Constantinople in 1453?
Mehmed II
Selim III
Suleiman I
Murad II
8. Which Genoese nobleman and captain was a defender of Constantinople during its siege in 1453?
Giuliano de' Medici
Giovanni Giustiniani
Fabrizio Colonna
Ludovico Sforza
9. What battle in 1683 is considered a turning point and the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire?
Third Battle of Gaza
Battle of Mohacs
Siege of Vienna
Samarra Offensive
10. How is Mehmed II commonly known?
The Magnificent
The Bloody
The Terrible
The Conqueror
11. What is the name of the period that was a time of peace when the arts flourished in the Ottoman Empire?
Lilly period
Rose period
Orchid period
Tulip period
12. Who did the Ottomans join in the World War I?
World War I was fought between the Allies and the Central Powers. The Central Powers included the Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria.
Allied
Axis
Central powers
13. Which of these progressive policies was practiced by the Ottoman Empire more than most other rulers?
The Ottoman Empire practiced religious tolerance. They allowed those they ruled to keep their individual customs for the most part.
Child labor laws
Marriage equality
Religious tolerance
A slavery ban
14. What major historic event did the Ottoman Empire's capture of Constantinople in 1453 lead to?
When the Ottomans captured Constantinople from the Byzantines, many artists and intellectuals fled to Italy. This sparked the Renaissance.
Iron age
Industrial revolution
Cold war
Renaissance
15. Who ruled the Ottomans when the empire reached its peak in the 16th century?
Suleiman I
Mehmed II
Orhan
Murad III
16. What was the name of the Ottoman levy that took adolescent Christian boys as slaves from the European provinces?
In the 14th century Christians had to give up 20% of their male children to the state so they could be converted and raised in Muslim society.
Divan
Ciftlik
Kharaj
Devsirme
17. What tragic event is associated with the Ottoman Empire?
In 1915, Turkish leaders massacred over 1 million Armenians living within the Ottoman Empire.
The Armenian Genocide
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Trail of Tears
The Holocaust
18. The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its European possessions after which event?
Crimean War (1853–56)
War of Greek Independence (1821–32)
World War I (1914–18)
The Balkan Wars (1912–13)
19. What happened to Mehmed VI, the last ruler of the Ottoman Empire?
Tortured to death
Imprisoned
Exiled
Beheaded
20. Who founded the Republic of Türkiye in 1923?
Enver Pasha
Abdull Hamid I
Mustafa Celebi
Kemal Atatürk
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3 Comments
Jokata
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Level 62
Jul 28, 2024
The empire did not lost almost all its posessions in Europe because of the Young Turk's revolution (1908), but because of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913).
Cheesetoasty
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Level 34
Dec 10, 2025
There are two mistakes, 1. the republic of türkiye was founded in 1923 not 1823 and the last sultan was mehmed VI
Nenadbs
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Level 54
Dec 11, 2025
Fixed. Thanks.
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