Southwest Asia

What is a Harem?

• A type of weapon

• A group of female relatives and wives in a household

• A religious text

• A type of dance

Who used a growing army and huge cannons to conquer Constantinople in 1453?

• Suleyman I

• Sultan Mehmed II

• Genghis Khan

• Alexander the Great

What title was given to the ruler of the Ottoman Empire?

• Emperor

• Pharaoh

• Sultan

• King

Who took his army to India and started taking over the subcontinent?

• Akbar

• Babur

• Shah Jahan

• Aurangzeb

What did Akbar's tolerance towards other cultures lead to?

• Isolation of cultures

• Blending of different styles

• Destruction of art

• Decline in education

What was the consequence of Shah Jahan's third son's rule?

• Expansion of the empire

• Strengthening of the empire

• End of the empire

• Peace in the empire

Shia Islam requires caliphs to come from Muhammad’s family  

• True

• False

• Ottomans forced Christian boys from conquered territories to covert to Islam, and become warriors called Janissaries 

• True

• False

• Under Suleyman I the Ottoman Empire reached its height 

• True

• False

• A langar is a Sikh place of worship

• True

• False