Question 1

How did the religious complexion of Mughal India differ from that of the other Islamic empires? What impact did religious diversity have on the Mughals?

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Question 2

The founder of the Mughal dynasty was

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A)   Timur.
B)   Akbar.
C)   Babur.
D)   Nadir Khan Afshar.

Question 3

The head of the Ottoman central bureaucracy was the

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A)   vizier.
B)   dhimmi.
C)   eunuch.
D)   Caliph.

Question 4

What was the principle of succession within the Ottoman Empire?

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A)   Like earlier Islamic dynasties, the Ottoman Empire lacked a principle of succession, a fact that led to protracted warfare among prospective successors.
B)   Succession within the Ottoman Empire was based on primogeniture, that is, the oldest son automatically succeeded the previous sultan.
C)   Like the early Islamic administration of the orthodox caliphs, the successions within the Ottoman Empire was elective.
D)   Ottoman sultans selected their successors prior to their death and elevated them as co-rulers.

Question 5

What led to the rapid demise of the Safavid Empire?

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A)   Like the Ottoman Empire, the lack of a principle of succession led Abbas the Great to eliminate all capable rivals, leaving no capable ruler following his death.
B)   The Safavid defeat at the battle of Panipat at the hands of a Russian army stripped the empire of its military forces just as pressure from outside enemies increased.
C)   The collapse of the Safavid economy in the 18th century diminished the revenues of the empire to the point that the central government could no longer function.
D)   The successful conquest of the Ottoman Empire overextended the Safavid resources, so that the central government became increasingly inefficient.

Question 6

Compare and contrast the basic structure of the three Islamic empires.

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Question 7

The capital of the Safavid Empire under Abbas the Great was

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A)   Tabriz.
B)   Baghdad.
C)   Mosul.
D)   Isfahan.

Question 8

Compare and contrast the causes for decline and collapse in each of the Islamic early modern empire.

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Question 9

Which of the following descriptions of the accomplishments of Babur is NOT accurate?

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A)   He was a fine military strategist and fierce fighter who went into battle alongside his troops.
B)   He wrote one of the great histories of India and was a fine musician.
C)   He reformed the ineffective Lodi bureaucracy to create a streamlined administration.
D)   He was a fine musician and designed gardens for his new capital at Delhi.

Question 10

Followers of the Safavids? followers were called

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A)   Red Heads.
B)   Yellow Turbans.
C)   the White Lotus Society.
D)   the Red Hand.

Question 11

Which of the following groups represented such extreme conservatism within the Ottoman Empire that reform was frustrated?

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A)   Janissaries
B)   Artisans
C)   Merchants
D)   Sultans

Question 12

In what way were the artisans of Constantinople similar to their counterparts in the West?

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A)   They had begun to form a proletariat
B)   Like their counterparts in medieval European towns, the artisans were organized into guilds
C)   In the capital city of the Ottoman Empire, artisans were free of governmental supervision
D)   Like the earlier West, craft production was limited and there were few independent artisans

Question 13

The Ottomans conquered Constantinople and ended the Byzantine Empire in

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A)   1245.
B)   1337.
C)   1453.
D)   1519.

Question 14

Compare and contrast the social and political organization of the Safavids to that of the Ottomans.

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Question 15

The original base of the Ottoman Turks was

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A)   Mesopotamia.
B)   Syria.
C)   the Balkans.
D)   Anatolia.

Question 16

Which of the following statements concerning the relationships of the Muslim empires to the West is NOT accurate?

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A)   None of the Islamic emperors systematically monitored technological advances in Europe.
B)   Key tax revenues and merchant profits were drained off by the rise of European trading empires in Asia.
C)   The absence of minority peoples within the empires left them without commercial and cultural contacts with the West.
D)   Muslim scholars continued to take little interest in European learning.

Question 17

What was the outcome of the Din-i-Ilahi?

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A)   Accepted by Hindus who benefitted from the lenient policies of Akbar, the new religion was rejected by the Muslims.
B)   Accepted by Muslims who saw it as a means of cementing the authority of the Mughals over the traditional Hindu rulers, the new religion was rejected by Hindus.
C)   The new religion was widely accepted during Akbar?s lifetime and became the state religion of the Mughal Empire.
D)   By Akbar?s death in 1605, the Din-i-Ilahi was rejected by both Muslims and Hindus.

Question 18

What was the state of the Mughal Empire following Aurangzeb?s death in 1707?

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A)   The Mughal Empire had shrunken so much during Aurangzeb?s reign that the dynasty controlled only Bengal.
B)   The empire included more territory than ever before and there was greater religious homogeneity than earlier in the reign.
C)   The empire was far larger than earlier, but control and state revenues passed increasingly to regional lords who gave little more than tribute payments to the emperors.
D)   The empire collapsed in the face of a Safavid invasion from the Indus river valley.

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT a cause for the decline of the Ottoman Empire?

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A)   Local officials began to retain increasing amounts of revenue for their own purposes.
B)   Oppressive demands of local officials caused the peasantry to abandon their holdings and flee.
C)   The ability of individual sultans to rule declined.
D)   The addition of European military technology such as light artillery made the Janissaries so powerful that they could challenge the authority of the sultan.

Question 20

The Safavid dynasty had its origins in the 14th century in a family devoted to what variant of Islam?

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A)   Sunnite
B)   Ismaili
C)   Sufi
D)   Sikh

Exam 26: The Muslim Empires

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Compare and contrast the basic structure of the three Islamic empires.

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Which of the following statements concerning the relationships of the Muslim empires to the West is NOT accurate?

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Compare and contrast the causes for decline and collapse in each of the Islamic early modern empire.

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Which of the following groups represented such extreme conservatism within the Ottoman Empire that reform was frustrated?

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