Ch. 3 Section 2 Vocab

a system of government in which appointed officials in specialized departments run the various offices

• Mercenary

• Bureaucracy 

• Janissary

a highly trained and disciplined soldier in the Ottoman army

• Shah

• Sunni

• Janissary

a hired soldier

• Mercenary

• Suleyman I

• Tolerance

a ruler of the Safavid Empire; the Persian title for “king”

• Umayyads

• Safavids

• Shah 

a ruler of the Ottoman Empire

• Sultan

• Suleyman I

• Safavids

the sympathy for the beliefs and practices of others

• Bureaucracy 

• Tolerance

• Shi’ite

established a hereditary system of succession, with the title of caliph automatically passing within the clan, usually from father to son.

• Umayyads

• Abbasids

• Shi'ite

descendants of Muhammad’s uncle

• Sunni

• Abbasids

• Umayyads

A dynasty of Turkish Muslims

• Mughals

• Ottomans

• Sunni

The greatest Ottoman ruler

• Suleyman I

• Muhammad

• Abd al-Rahman I