Chapter 28
The Islamic Empires
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The Mughal ruler who constructed the Taj Mahal was
a. Shah Jahan.
b. Akbar.
c. Zahir al-Din Muhammad.
d. Osman Bey.
e. Aurangzeb.
2. The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires were all
a. Christian.
b. anamistic.
c. Zoroastrian.
d. Buddhist.
e. Islamic.
7. Which of the following empires was inspired by its status as an Islamic outpost on the border of the
Christian world?
a. Ottoman.
b. Safavid.
c. Mughal.
d. Yuan.
e. Umayyad.
19. The leader of the Safavid empire at its peak was
a. Shah Ismail.
b. Aurangzeb.
c. Akbar.
d. Ibraham the Crazy.
e. Shah Abbas.
22. Which of the following rulers displayed the greatest amount of religious toleration?
a. Aurangzeb.
b. Akbar.
c. Shah Ismail.
d. Suleyman the Magnificent.
e. Charles V.
23. Akbar’s answer to the religious diversity and tension of India was to
a. declare India an atheistic state.
b. push Christianity in return for European-supplied advanced weapons.
c. attempt to crush all Hindu resistance.
d. create a syncretic religion called the “divine faith” that all could worship.
e. convert to Twelver Shiism as a means of inspiring a sense of divine leadership.
25. The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb
a. carried on the policy of religious toleration created by Akbar.
b. built the magnificent Taj Mahal to honor his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
c. converted to Hinduism.
d. was victorious in the battle of Chaldiran against the Safavids.
e. reversed the religious toleration of Akbar and began to tax the Hindus.
33. Sikhism was a syncretic combination of
a. Hinduism and Buddhism.
b. Christianity and Hinduism.
c. Hinduism and Islam.
d. Islam and Buddhism.
e. Buddhism and Christianity.
42. Which of the following factors was not one of the reasons for the decline of the Islamic empires?
a. a series of weak and incompetent rulers.
b. a collapse in the centuries-old civil service examination system.
c. rising tensions between different religious groups.
d. changing trade routes that bypassed the empires and hurt them financially.
e. increasing religious conservatism and intolerance among the Islamic leaders.
Following the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, what became the new center of
the Eastern Orthodox Church?
1) Antioch
4) Madrid
2) Vienna
5) Moscow
3) Rome
898. Which of the following correctly places the major Islamic empires of the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries in order from East to West?
1) Mughal Empire, Safavid Empire, Ottoman Empire
2) Mughal Empire, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire
3) Safavid Empire, Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire
4) Ottoman Empire, Mughal Empire, Safavid Empire
5) Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, Mughal Empire
932. Which of the following contributed to the decline of then Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century?
1) Military defeats in Europe caused many to question then Empire's purpose.
2) The rising power of the Safavid Empire decreased the Ottoman's supplies of soldiers.
3) The conquest of Crimea by the Russians in the seventeenth century.
4) The end of the janissary system of military service for Christian subjects.
5) The successful rebellion of Muhammad Ali in Egypt.
1004. Which of the following was a common problem of the Mughal and Ottoman Empires?
1) Their utter refusal to accept the principle of religious tolerance.
2) Their dependence on Europeans nations for their grain supplies.
3) Their lack of well-equipped navies.
4) Their inability to control the power of regional aristocrats.
5) Their use of a collective monarchy
1076. T he Mughal Empire replaced which of the following as the primary force on the Indian
subcontinent?
1) the Delhi Sultanate
4) the Mongol Empire
2) the Mauryan Empire
5) the Ashokan Empire
3) the Aryan Empire
1077. T he policy of religious tolerance, promoted by Emperor Akbar of the Mughal Empire resulted in
1) the loss of Ceylon to British colonialists
2) the beginning of the Indian caste system
3) the increased integration of Hindus and Muslims in India
4) the building of the Taj Mahal
5) the destruction of many Hindu temples in protest
1097. A major difference between the Ottoman Empire and then Safavid Empire was that the
1) Safavids were Christians while the Ottomans weren Muslims
2) Ottomans used gunpowder weapons while the Safavidsn did not
3) Ottomans used slaves as soldiers while the Safavids did not
4) Safavid Empire collapsed in the eighteenth century while the Ottoman Empire collapse in the twentieth
century
5) Safavid's military included a large navy, while then Ottoman's military was primarily a ground-bases
force