Ch 16

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of a new commodity, _____________, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen.

coffee

_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.

Charles V

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.

Chivalry

All told, some _________ moriscos would be expelled from Spain during the next five years.

300,000

All told, some _________moriscos would be expelled from Spain during the next five years.

300,000

Both the Habsburgs and the Ottomans renewed the traditional Islamic-Christian imperialism which had characterized the period of 600-950 and which had given way to the Muslim and Christian commonwealths of _________.

950-1450

The Ottoman-Habsburg struggle of the sixteenth century can be seen as yet another chapter in the long history of competition that began when the _________ Empire expanded into the Mediterranean and was resisted by the Greeks in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E.

Achaemenid Persian

The Ottoman-Habsburg struggle of the sixteenth century can be seen as yet another chapter in the long history of competition that began when the _________Empire expanded into the Mediterranean and was resisted by the Greeks in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E.

Achaemenid Persian

The outstanding painter of Spain during Philip II's reign was El Greco, who had received his early training in his native _____________.

Crete

After the sack of Rome in 1527, Leo Africanus (otherwise known as Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan):

Disappeared from Rome, and presumably returned to North Africa.

Christopher Columbus hoped to reach ______(and subsequently Jerusalem) by sailing westward across the Atlantic.

India

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________.

India

The Ottomans and the _________ dominated Islamic civilization in the early modern period of 1450-1600

Indian Mughals

"Auto-da-fé" means "act of faith" in the ___________ language.

Portuguese

The apogee of the Ottoman Empire was reached under Sultan Süleyman I, also known as:

the Magnificent

The following is one major difference between the Ottoman and the Spanish Habsburg Empires:

the cavalry ruling class of the Ottoman Empire was non-hereditary

The Karagöz was a

Shadow puppet theater

The practice of the devșirme contradicted Islamic law, which:

Forbade the enslavement of "peoples of the Book."

The _______ was a small and slender 60-foot-long ship with a stern rudder, square and lateen sails, and a magnetic compass (of Chinese origin).

Caravel

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.

1492

By the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some ______________ inhabitants.

15 million

Bowing to the pressure of the Church and against the advice of some Christian landowners, the Crown opted for the expulsion of all moriscos from Spanish territories in 1580, although the actual expulsions would not begin until _______.

1609

The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in _____________.

Madrid

Which of the following was not a theater of confrontation in the Muslim-Christian struggle for dominance?

North Sea

The reduced military presence by both Habsburgs and Ottomans to safeguard their spice trade route across East Africa, India and Southeast Asia paved the way for the _________________to ultimately overtake both Portugal and the Ottoman Turks as leaders in this trade.

Dutch

The purpose of the Spanish Inquisition, as appointed by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1481, was to:

Ferret out any people whose beliefs were contrary to Church teachings.

The alliance between the Ottomans and the __________ horrified western Europe in 1534 because it indicated that the Ottoman Empire was a player in European politics.

French

Philip II was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1575 and sue for peace for the Ottomans in 1580 because:

He had failed to suppress a ruinously expensive rebellion in the Netherlands.

An expedition sent out the Portuguese king ___________ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.

Henry

An early indicator of the significance of the money economy in the Ottoman Empire was the military institution of the _________, troops of conscripted Christian boys who received salaries from the central treasury.

Janissaries

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of Pope _________.

Leo X

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the Battle of _________ thanks to their superior naval tactics.

Lepanto

The naval Battle of _________was the culminating victory of this Holy Christian League over the Ottoman Turks and one that would dangerously sap the Ottomans' supply of experienced naval manpower.

Lepanto

By the late 13th and early 14th centuries, native shipwrights and their teachers from Genoa teamed up in the port of _____________ to develop new ships suited to the stormy Atlantic.

Lisbon

The Ottomans defeated the ____________ and took control of western Arabia, including the pilgrimage city of Mecca, in 1517.

Mamluks

Toward the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman sultans equipped their Janissaries with cannons and________.

Muskets

When he gathered his clan and declared himself an independent ruler in 1299, the Turkish warlord Osman was nominally subject to the:

Seljuks

After staying three months on the first Bahaman island he found, Christopher Columbus returned to Iberia with ________ and a small quantity of gold.

Seven captured Caribbean islanders

A(n) __________ warrior organization called the Safavids proclaimed 14-year-old Ismail their Hidden Imam in 1501.

Shiite

The Shehzade and Süleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirne were designed by __________.

Sinan

Stationary theaters with stages, main floors, balconies, and boxes appeared in the main cities of Spain during the ________ century

Sixteenth

The Ottoman army carried all wages, gunpowder, weapons, and the majority of its food in its wagons and barges because:

Soldiers were not permitted to provision themselves from the belongings of villagers.

In an effort to deal a definitive blow to the Ottoman naval threat, the Holy Christian League was formed consisting of _________.

Spain, the Pope, Venice and Genoa

The framing device of Cervantes' Don Quixote, the figure of Cide Hamete Benengeli who chronicles the novel's 74 episodes, suggests that:

The narrator may be lying, since he is a perfidious Muslim.

The incursion of ______ into Ottoman territory bought time for the Byzantine emperors in the early fifteenth century.

Timur the Great

The expulsion of the Jews from "Sefarad", as Spain was called in Hebrew, was designed:

To strengthen the "Christian unity" of Iberia

The expulsion of the Jews from "Sefarad", as Spain was called in Hebrew, was designed:

To strengthen the "Christian unity" of Iberia.

The most original contribution of Sinan to Ottoman architecture was

To use up to eight slender pillars as hidden internal supports of the dome.

The most original contribution of Sinan to Ottoman architecture was:

To use up to eight slender pillars as hidden internal supports of the dome.

Under Süleyman "the Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the _____________.

Topkapi Palace

In 1498, _________ reached India by way of Africa, becoming the first European to sail directly from Europe to India.

Vasco Da Gama

The Spanish Habsburgs sought to overcome their lack of power over the _________ and the weakness of their Spanish tax base by squeezing as much as they could from their Italian, Flemish and New World possessions.

aristocracy

The _________ was a particularly Portuguese or Spanish show trial in which the state, through the holy office of the Inquisition, judged a person's commitment to the Catholic faith

auto-da-fé

Habsburg Spain enlarged its revenue from 1521 to 1536 via the royal _________share of the Aztec and Inca gold and silver treasure to which it was entitled.

one-fifth