The Ottomans Build a Vast Empire
Sultan of the Turkish Empire, 1520-66 ...
Answer: Suleiman the Lawgiver (“the Magnificent”).
First Safavid shah of Iran, 1588-1629 ...
Answer: Abbas the Great.
Padsha Begum of the Mughal Empire, 1620-27 ...
Answer: Nur Jahan.
A member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire ...
Answer: janissary.
Shah of Safavid Iran, 1501-24 ...
Answer: Ismail I.
Mogul emperor in India, 1628?-58: built the Taj Mahal ...
Answer: Shah Jahan.
A warrior for Islam ...
Answer: ghazi.
A city in central Iran: the capital of Persia from the 16th into the 18th centuries ...
Answer: Isfahan.
Mughal emperor, 1605-27 ...
Answer: Jahangir.
In the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking children from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers ...
Answer: devshirme.
A member of a Shi’a Muslim dynasty that built an empire in Persia in the 16th-18th centuries ...
Answer: Safavid.
Mogul emperor of Hindustan, 1658-1707 ...
Answer: Aurangzeb.
Sultan of Turkey, 1444-46 and 1451-81; captured Constantinople in 1453 ...
Answer: Mohammad II ("the Conqueror").
Shah of Iran, 1736-47 ...
Answer: Nader Shah.
A member of a nonviolent religious group whose beliefs blend elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism ...
Answer: Sikh.