Chapter 20 - The Last Great Islamic Empires

By the seventeenth century, a common urban culture developed in the disparate parts of the Ottoman Empire because of the rise of the what?

Coffeehouse

Suleiman was referred to as "the lawgiver" because he what?

Combined different legal traditions to create a comprehensive law system

In the long run, the most impressive aspect of Safavid times was the what?

Cultural and intellectual renaissance that Iran enjoyed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In the seventeenth century, the main competitors with the state of Acheh were the what?

Dutch

The primary function of the millets under the Ottoman Empire was to take what?

Full responsibility for the well-being of each member of the community

Which of these was an arm of the government and single religious authority over Muslim scholars in the Ottoman Empire?

Grand Mufti

Member of the Safavid dynasty were adherents of a militant what?

Shi'ism

Which of the following was among the last great empires of the Islamic world?

The Ottoman, the Mughal, and the Safavid

By 1600, which of the following region(s) was/were predominantly Shi'ites?

The Safavid Empire

All the following were important Islamic empires from 1500 to 1650 except what?

The Sikh

By the nineteenth century, the relationship between the Islamic empires and the West can best be described as what?

The West was booming, the Islamic world declining

The Southern Seas trade was characterized by what?

The constant elimination of foreign commercial competition.

The following all contributed to the decline of the Mughal Empire except the what?

The decline of the powerful Hindu state of Hyderabad.

The division between Shi'ite and Sunni states resulted in all if the following except what?

The increased use of the Arabic as a common language.

The Safavid Empire succeeded in Iran primarily because of what?

The lack of organized opposition to their rule

The successful expansion of the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on what?

The size and loyalty of its armed forces

According to Guru Arjun, the most important aspect of religion was what?

The supremacy of faith in God.

All of the following characterize the Chaghatay Turks except what?

They defeat the Uzbek Turk in Transoxiania.

After 1774, the protector of Orthodox Christians in the Islamic empires was what?

Russia

One of the most important accomplishments of Shah Abbas I was what?

Breaking the Portuguese trade monopoly along Persian shores

In the sixteenth - century Ottoman Empire, the ulama became what?

A branch of the state under a single religious authority

The devshirme can best be described as what?

A provincial slave levy

In the sixteenth century, Muslim influence along the maritime rim of Asia declined because of Portuguese what? a. Superior naval power b. Exploitation of indigenous rivalries c. Use of terror against all who opposed their objectives d. All of these answers are correct

All of these answers are correct

In their competition with the Sunni religious sect, the Shi'ites resorted to forming what?

Alliances with non-Muslim states.

The Safavid Empire declined for all of the following reasons except what?

An invasion from North India by the Chaghatay army

The Mughal dynasty sought to end the political fragmentation of what?

India

The Sikhs rejected what?

Islam in favor of their own moralistic reformist ideals.

Of the immediate successors of Akbar "the Great," which permitted English merchants to establish a traading post, or "factory," at Surat in Gujarat?

Jahangir

The most famous slave corps in the Ottoman military was the what?

Janissaries

According to, the European power that had the greatest influence in Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century was the what?

Netherlands

The Ishraqi school of theological-philosophical thought merged what?

Persian Islamic thought with Islamic traditions of Aristotelian-ism and Platonism.

In the sixteenth century, Muslims began to be displaced in the west coast of India by who?

Portuguese traders

The Ottoman army was composed largely of what?

Provincial slaves

The mounted warriors of the Safavid empire were the what?

Qizilbash

Akbar can best be described as a what?

Religious eclectic who tolerated different religions.

Ottoman power declined for all of the following reasons except what?

Religious fanaticism

All of the following were lasting legacies of Safavid rule except what?

Religious unity with the Sunni Afghans

From 1500 to 1650, Indian religious life turned what?

Toward a broad conception of spirituality

The Ottoman Empire originally centered on the modern-day country of what?

Turkey

The Mughal Empire declined for all of the following reasons except what?

Unfriendly commercial relations with Britain.

The monumental architecture during the Safavid period is famous for its what?

Use if ceramic tiles to decorate in lavish fashion the facades and domes of buildings.

Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman armies laid siege to which city from 1526 to 1529?

Vienna