LCA 266 Exam 1 Questions with All Correct Answers
What was true for French merchants after the Ottoman Empire signed the first Capitulation agreement with France in 1536? - Answer- -They were granted permission to trade freely in Ottoman ports
-They were exempted from Ottoman taxes
-They were c...
LCA 266 Exam 1 Questions
with All Correct Answers
What was true for French merchants after the Ottoman Empire signed the first
Capitulation agreement with France in 1536? - Answer- -They were granted permission
to trade freely in Ottoman ports
-They were exempted from Ottoman taxes
-They were charged low tariff rates for import and export goods
The penetration of European merchant capital into the Ottoman Empire--specifically, the
exchange of the Ottoman raw materials to Europe for manufactured products--resulted
in a shortage of raw material for domestic consumption and ____________. - Answer-
Inflation
What describes the Capitulations? - Answer- -Agreements that:
--facilitated the penetration of European goods into the Ottoman Empire
--that allowed European merchants to freely trade in the Ottoman Empire and be
exempt from Ottoman taxes
--that granted Europeans extraterritorial legal privileges in Ottoman territories
What most accurately describes gaza? - Answer- Warfare against non-Muslims for the
purpose of extending domains of Islam
Despite the remarkable successes of the Ottoman expansion of the fourteenth to
sixteenth centuries, what remained outside of the empire's reach? - Answer- The
Balkans
What most accurately describes the Janissaries? - Answer- A slave army that was paid
a regular salary and expected to be ready for military duty at all times
Ismai'il made which religion the official religion of the Safavid Empire? - Answer- Shi'a
Islam
Who were known as the "Red-headed ones?" - Answer- They were both Turkish tribal
forces and followers of the Sufi Sunni brotherhood founded in Azerbaijan
What were the two dominant cosmopolitan centers of commerce, art, and intellect in the
Middle East in the late 1500s and late 1600s? - Answer- Istanbul and Isfaham
, Did Islam reach the limit of its expansions during the classical Abbasid Empire? -
Answer- False
Before its collapse in 1736, did the Safavid Empire of Iran establish Sunni Islam as the
state religion? - Answer- False (Shi'a)
Did Karbala, the site of the martyrdom of Imam Husayn, make Iraq an importance place
for Sunni Muslims? - Answer- False -> Karbala was in the Safavid Empire and they
were Shi'tes
Was gaza the sole motivating element of Ottoman expansion? - Answer- False
Was one of the reasons for the Ottomans' success their single, unchanging system of
administration over all of the diverse territories they ruled? - Answer- False (Page 39
The lands of _______ became the center of contest for supremacy between Ottoman
Sunnism and Safavid Shi'ism. - Answer- Iraq (page 52)
During the reign of a weak sultan, the _______, the most powerful government official,
sometimes assumed extensive powers and made decisions without consulting the
monarch. - Answer- Grand Visier (Page 42)
The _______ state was established by the military prowess of Qizilbash tribesmen. -
Answer- Safavid
As the Ottoman state evolved from a gazi principality to a bureaucratic world empire,
the sultans instituted an imperial council, or ________. - Answer- Divan (Page 42)
From 1638 until World War I, the land of Iraq was under ______ control. - Answer-
Ottoman
What are the reforms implemented in the Ottoman Empire by Sultan Selim III? -
Answer- -The purchase of new European weaponry
-The creation of new infantry corps called the nizam-i-jedid
-Raised salaries and better living conditions for the Janissaries
What forces deposed Sultan Selim III in 1806? - Answer- Members of the ulama,
powerful derebeys, and the Janissaries
What was Muhammad Ali's most enduring legacy? - Answer- Egyptian nationalism
What following was a result of the signing of the Treaty of London? - Answer- -Egypt
withdrew from all occupied territories save except for Sudan
-The governorship of Egypt would become a hereditary office held by Muhammad Ali's
family
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