Dates
Terms
People
Places
The Randomizer
100
The year in which the Ottomans conquered Constantinople.
What is 1453?
100
The grassy, arid plains of Central Asia.
What is the steppe?
100
Military elite who gained political power in the Ottoman court.
Who are the Janissaries?
100
The straits separating Europe and Asia.
What is the Bosphorus?
100
In what battle was a large chain used as a defensive measure?
What was the siege of Constantinople?
200
The century in which the Ottomans conquer most of Anatolia and enter the Balkans.
What are the 1300s?
200
The title of the ruler of the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Sultan?
200
Who said: "I am God's slave and sultan of this world. I am head of Muhammad's community. In Baghdad I am the shah, in Byzantine realms the Caesar, and in Egypt the sultan; who sends his fleets to the seas of Europe, the Maghrib (northwest Africa) and India. I am the sultan who took the crown and throne of Hungary and granted them to a humble slave."
Who is Suleyman?
200
The Ottomans threatened the heart of the Habsburg Empire by laying siege to this city on several occasions.
What is Vienna?
200
It was the most magnificent of Christian structures in Constantinople.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
300
The century in which the Ottomans were at the height of their imperial power.
What are the 1500s?
300
The system by which (mostly) non-Muslim children were collected by the empire, converted to Islam, and trained for administrative or military service.
What is the devshirme?
300
He was the Ottoman leader who captured Constantinople.
Who is Mehmet II?
300
The one European kingdom that rooted for the Habsburg's defeat at the hands of the Ottomans?
What is France?
300
From this palace in Constantinople the Ottoman sultans ruled the empire.
What is the Topkapi?
400
The century in which Osman, patriarch of the Ottomans, was born.
What are the 1200s?
400
A term referring to Non-Muslim subjects, or non-Muslim communities, within the Ottoman Empire.
What is dhimmi?
400
The sultan's concubine who captured his heart, rose above her traditional status. and shocked the elite in Constantinople.
Who is Hurrem/Roxelana?
400
What was the first capital and long-time military headquarters of the Ottoman Empire before Constantinople?
What is Edirne?
400
The head of the Ottoman imperial administration maintained this title.
What is the Grand Vizier?
500
The year in which Baghdad was overrun by the Mongols, paving the way for Ottoman expansion in succeeding decades.
What is 1258?
500
The traditional term for lord within Turkish culture.
What is bey?
500
The architect of many fine Ottoman structures of the 1500s.
Who is Pasha Sinan?
500
What was the island that Suleyman conquered in order to vanquish all remaining Christian presence in the Eastern Mediterranean?
What is Rhodes?
500
His diplomatic letters back to Vienna were eventually published and caused a sensation in Europe.
Who is de Busbecq?
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