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Which sultan distrusted his admirals during the Russo-Turkish war?
Sultan Abdülhamid II
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Who was the reformist that had the backing of Ottoman admirals during the Russo-Turkish war?
Midhat Pasha
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Where was the Ottoman fleet left to decay?
the Golden Horn
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When was the Young Turk Revolution?
1908
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What Ottoman group wanted to form a stronger navy in the early 20th century?
the Committee of Union and Progress
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What was the first date that the Ottoman empire had an air-based military unit?
June 1909
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Where was the first Ottoman Aviation school?
Yeşilköy
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On what date was the Aviation School founded?
3 July 1912
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What happened at the aviation school in May 1913?
the world's first specialized Reconnaissance Training Program was started
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What new military academy was formed in June 1914?
the Naval Aviation School (Bahriye Tayyare Mektebi)
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The goal of developing Bursa and Istanbul was an intentional act to create what?
commercial and industrial centres
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Who was Mehmed's successor?
Bayezid
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Who did Mehmed and Bayezid encourage to come to Istanbul?
the Jews from different parts of Europe
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What group were Jews being persecuted by in Europe?
their Christian counterparts
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Persecution of Jews in Spain occurred after what event concluded?
the conclusion of Reconquista
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The economic goal of the state was to serve as what for the ruler?
consolidation and extension of the ruler's power
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In what regions concepts was the Ottoman economic system based on?
the Middle East
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What was a way to reach the economic goals of the Ottoman economic system?
making the productive classes prosperous
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What was the final goal of the state economic system?
to increase the state revenues without damaging the prosperity of subjects
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What did the state economic system hope to avoid?
the emergence of social disorder
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Two of the most developed economic organizations under the Ottoman Empire were what?
the treasury and chancery
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What were the scribes of the chancery known as?
men of the pen
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Part of the scribal bureaucracy were trained what?
ulama
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What did the scribal bureaucracy become?
a professional body
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The Ottoman Empire had the most developed economic organizations among Islamic Governments until which century?
the 17th century
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What serviced as the foundation for the structure of the economy of the Ottoman empire?
its geopolitical structure
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The Ottoman Empire caused navigators from which two nations to find another route to the Orient?
Spanish and Portuguese
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Who once used the spice route that the Ottoman Empire controlled?
Marco Polo
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When were direct trade links established with India?
1498
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When did Christopher Columbus sail to the Bahamas?
1492
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What is believed to have caused the opening of new sea routes during the Ottoman Empire?
change in relations between the Ottoman Turks and central Europe
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The formation of sea routes bypassing the Middle East may have led to the decline of what?
the Ottoman Empire itself
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What is another name for the Treaty of Balta Liman?
The Anglo-Ottoman Treaty
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What did the Treaty of Balta Liman do for Ottoman markets?
opened the Ottoman markets directly to English and French competitors
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In what direction did land routes lose their importance?
East
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The development of what caused people to expand areas of cultivation in the Ottoman Empire?
commercial centres and routes
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What dominated all economic and political interests?
interests of the state
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What were the types of economies that were being developed in western Europe?
capitalist and mercantile economies
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The expansion of international trade through the Empire was the result of what?
developing commercial centres and routes
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The rise of ports caused what in populations?
the clustering of populations
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Steamships and railroads rose with what else?
The rise of port cities
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In what year did urbanization in the Ottoman empire begin to increase?
1700
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What were two improvements that made cities more desirable to live in?
Improvements in health and sanitation
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What was the population of Salonica in 1800?
55,000
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The annexation of what two regions resulted in large groups of Muslim refugees coming into the empire?
the Crimean and Balkan regions
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Muslims representing 200,000 of what group fled to Dobruja?
Crimean Tartars
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How many refugees fled Russia to the Ottoman Empire from 1783 to 1913?
3.8 million
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What are the people from the Balkans who emigrated to Turkey called?
Muhacir
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In what year did the Ottoman Empire end?
1922
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What was the official language of the Ottoman Empire?
Ottoman Turkish
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What were the main influences of the official language of the Empire?
Persian and Arabic
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What language was spoken by most people in Anatolia?
Turkish
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Which languages influenced by the empire was spoken in Iraq?
Arabic
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What language was used for religious uses in the Empire?
Arabic
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What was the public's literacy rate in leading up to the early 19th century in the empire?
about 2–3%
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At the end of the 19th century what was the literacy rate for the public in the Empire believed to be?
15%
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What did people resort to when they needed to communicate with the government?
people had to hire scribes
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What were hired scribes known as?
"special request-writers" (arzuhâlcis)
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What was the second language of those that weren't ethnically Turkish?
Turkish
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The Empire had a Christian majority until what time?
the second half of the 15th century
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What group ruled the empire until the 15th century?
a Muslim minority
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What group began to decline within the Empire in the late 19th century?
the non-Muslim population
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Muslims accounted for what amount of the population of the Empire in the 1820s?
60%
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In 1914 what portion of the Empire weren't Muslims?
19.1%
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The Muslim sect known as the Druze is considered what?
heretical
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What was Sultan Selim I's nickname?
the Grim
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In what year did Sultan Selim I order the massacre of 40,000 people whom he considered heretics?
1514
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What group did Sultan Selim I consider heretics and subsequently slaughter?
Anatolian Alevis (Qizilbash)
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Under Sultan Selim I the empire swallowed what sultanate in Egypt?
Mamluk Sultanate
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What system deemed non-Muslims subjects of the empire but unbound by Muslim law?
the millet system
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What code had been active for 900 years in the Byzantine empire?
Justinian's Code
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What were non-Muslims also known as in the Islamic Ottoman State?
zimmi
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Being a non-muslim in the Empire resulted in what as it related to taxes?
higher taxes
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What millet was subject to Justinian's Code?
The Orthodox millet
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The Ottoman dynasty was preceded by what sultanate?
Sultanate of Rum
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What is one way that the Empire was described as it related to culture?
Persianate empire
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When the Ottoman empire conquered a region what also became a part of the empire?
some of the traditions, art and institutions of cultures
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The Seljuk Empire was influenced by the cultures of others resulting in it being referred to as what?
Persianised
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What type of Ottoman poetry is ritualized?
Divan poetry
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What kind of poetry inspired Ottoman Divan Poetry?
Persian poetry
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What type of framework was Divan poetry based on?
a strict metrical framework
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What was the romance genre of Divan poetry known as?
mesnevî
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What make up the largest portion of Divan poetry?
gazels (which make up the greatest part of the repertoire of the tradition), or kasîdes.
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Prose in the Ottoman empire did not develop to a higher level until which century?
the 19th century
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What rules did Ottoman prose have to follow?
the rules of sec (سجع, also transliterated as seci), or rhymed prose
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What did the rules of sec require?
between each adjective and noun in a string of words, such as a sentence, there must be a rhyme
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Who wrote Muhayyelât?
Giritli Ali Aziz Efendi
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When was Muhayyelât written?
1796
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What was the biggest influence from the west on Ottoman literature?
French literature
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During what time period was Ottoman literate most influenced by the west?
the latter half of the 19th century
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During the Tanzimat what western influence could be seen?
the influence of Romanticism
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The poetic tradition had its biggest influence on what Ottoman literary movements?
the Symbolist and Parnassian movements
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Romanticism, and Realism were two movements from the west that influenced the Ottoman literary scene, what was the third?
Naturalist
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What 1876 Novel did Namik Kemal write?
İntibâh ("Awakening")
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What did İbrahim Şinasi write in 1860?
the one-act comedy "Şair Evlenmesi" ("The Poet's Marriage").
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Who wrote Hasan Mellâh yâhud Sırr İçinde Esrâr?
Ahmed Midhat Efendi
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What Realist novel did Ahmed Midhat Efendi write in 1881?
Henüz On Yedi Yaşında
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What did writers of the Tanzimat period hope to accomplish with their publications?
contribute to a revitalization of Ottoman social structures
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Ottoman artists mixed Chinese art with the art of what else?
traditional Byzantine art
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The ottoman empire built structures in Romania that included Mosques, and Bridges, what else was built?
fountains and schools
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