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Ottoman Empire
Can you answer these questions about important events and leaders of the Ottoman Empire?
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1. Who founded the Ottoman Empire in 1299?
Murad I
Orhan I
Bayezid I
Osman I
2. What was the ruler of the Ottoman Empire called?
Sultan
Caliph
Czar
Emir
3. Where did the leaders of Ottoman Empire and his many wives live in Istanbul?
Rumeli Fortress
Topkapi Palace
Anatolian Fortress
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?
Singidunum
Adrianople
Callipolis
Izmir
5. What army did Ottomans defeat at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389?
Albanian
Serbian
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.
Templars
Janissaries
Viziers
Cossacks
7. Who led the Ottoman Empire in capturing Constantinople in 1453?
Mehmed II
Murad II
Selim III
Suleiman I
8. Which Genoese nobleman and captain was a defender of Constantinople during its siege in 1453?
Giuliano de' Medici
Ludovico Sforza
Giovanni Giustiniani
Fabrizio Colonna
9. What battle in 1683 is considered a turning point and the beginning of the end of the Ottoman Empire?
Third Battle of Gaza
Siege of Vienna
Samarra Offensive
Battle of Mohacs
10. How is Mehmed II commonly known?
The Magnificent
The Bloody
The Conqueror
The Terrible
11. What is the name of the period that was a time of peace when the arts flourished in the Ottoman Empire?
Rose period
Orchid period
Lilly 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.
Central powers
Allied
Axis
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
A slavery ban
Religious tolerance
Marriage equality
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.
Cold war
Industrial revolution
Iron age
Renaissance
15. Who ruled the Ottomans when the empire reached its peak in the 16th century?
Orhan
Murad III
Mehmed II
Suleiman I
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.
Ciftlik
Devsirme
Kharaj
Divan
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 Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Trail of Tears
The Armenian Genocide
The Holocaust
18. The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its European possessions after which event?
World War I (1914–18)
Crimean War (1853–56)
The Balkan Wars (1912–13)
War of Greek Independence (1821–32)
19. What happened to Mehmed IV, the last ruler of the Ottoman Empire?
Exiled
Tortured to death
Beheaded
Imprisoned
20. Who founded the Republic of Türkiye in 1823?
Enver Pasha
Mustafa Celebi
Abdull Hamid I
Kemal Atatürk
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Jokata
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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).
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