Chapter 16 Quiz

Western Christian Overseas Expansion and the Ottoman-Habsburg Struggle, 1450-1650
. _________were autonomously-operating Christians or Muslims who pirated ships, confiscated their cargoes and held their crew and travelers for ransom.

. The main Muslim-Christian rivals to emerge by the seventeenth century were the Ottoman and ____________ Empires.

. Christopher Columbus hoped to reach ______ahead of the Portuguese.

. In 1498, _________reached India by way of sailing around Africa.

. The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans was possible through the use of _________bombardment.

. Who almost succeeded in ending the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the fifteenth century?

. The apogee of the Ottoman Empire was reached under Sultan Süleyman I, also known as:

. The Ottomans and the _________dominated Islamic civilization in the early modern period of 1450-1600.

. The following kingdom was not inherited from his parents by Habsburg Emperor Charles V:

. Both the Habsburgs and the Ottomans renewed the traditional Islamic-Christian imperialism which had characterized the period of 600-950 and which had given way to the Muslim and Christian commonwealths of _________.

. During the first three decades of the sixteenth century, which of the following was not a pressing issue plaguing Emperor Charles V?

. _________forged a threatening alliance with the Ottoman Turks in an attempt to drive the Habsburgs out of Italy.

. Which of the following was not a theater of confrontation in the Muslim-Christian struggle for dominance?

. Since the Portuguese had pioneered a direct route from Europe to India via Africa, the _________became another front of confrontation between Christians and Muslims in the race to gain dominance over the lucrative spice trade.

. The reduced military presence by both Portugal and the Ottomans in the Indian Ocean paved the way for the________ to ultimately overtake both Portugal and the Ottoman Turks as leaders in this trade.

. In order to ensure the preservation and continuation of Habsburg global hegemony, Charles V decided to divide his western and eastern territories between his son Philip II and his brother _________.

. Muslims under Spanish rule were known as _________.

. In an effort to deal a definitive blow to the Ottoman naval threat, the Holy Christian League was formed consisting of _________.

. The naval Battle of _________was the culminating victory of this Holy Christian League over the Ottoman Turks.

. Bowing to the pressure of the Church and against the advice of some Christian landowners, the Crown opted for the expulsion of all moriscos from Spanish territories in 1580, although the actual expulsions would not begin until_______.

. All told, some _________moriscos would be expelled from Spain during the next five years.

. An early indicator of the significance of the money economy in the Ottoman Empire was the military institution of the _________, troops of conscripted Christian boys who received salaries from the central treasury.

. A form of forced enslavement in direct contradiction to Islamic law, the _________ system was a levy on Christian boys in the Ottoman Empire by which the conquered Christian population was obligated to contribute adolescent males to join the military and administrative classes.

. Their conquest of the Balkans made the Ottomans the owners of the largest precious metal production centers prior to the Spanish Habsburg acquisition of the _________mines in the mid-1500s.

. Governmental auction of the taxes in kind of a particular district to the highest bidder was known as _________.

. Ottoman bureaucrats were recruited from both the devşırme and

. The Spanish state reached its mature phase of centralization under the rule of:

. Habsburg Spain enlarged its revenue from 1521 to 1536 by way of:

. The following is one major difference between the Ottoman and the Spanish Habsburg Empires:

. The Spanish Habsburgs sought to overcome their lack of power over the _________and the weakness of their Spanish tax base by squeezing as much as they could from their Italian, Flemish and American colonies.

. Who acted as an intermediary between the sultan's mother and those who made important military and diplomatic decisions?

. Philip II built the massive palatial complex of _________, incorporating a royal residence, a monastic school and a royal necropolis, a very short distance away from the then small provincial city of Madrid.

. The _________was a Spanish show trial in which the state, through the holy office of the Inquisition, judged a person's commitment to the Catholic faith.

. The _________ Sarayi or "Palace of the Gun Gate," begun in 1459, incorporated a royal residence, an imperial administrative school for the training of bureaucrats, barracks for the troops of Janissaries, an armory and a hospital, and it became an object of both fear and fascination for the Sultan's subjects.

. A popular form of entertainment in the Ottoman Empire during Ramadan was

. The Ottoman-Habsburg struggle of the sixteenth century can be seen as yet another chapter in the long history of competition that began when the _________Empire expanded into the Mediterranean and was resisted by the Greeks in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E.

. What was the type of ship, pictured below, did Vasco da Gama sail on to journey to India in 1498?


An image is shown of an illustration of an Iberian caravel ship sailing on the water.

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A map traces Europe and the Mediterranean circa 1560. The Holy Roman Empire was in central Europe and included the present-day Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and northern Italy. The Austria Habsburg territories included the eastern Holy Roman Empire and a narrow belt of the area to the east of the Empire. The Spanish Habsburg territories included present-day Spain, Balearic Islands, Sardinia, Sicily, southern Italy, the northwestern Holy Roman Empire, and the following cities in northern Africa: Melilla in 1496, Oran between 1509 and 1706, Algiers between 1510 and 1529, Bugia between 1510 and 1555, Biserra and Tunis between 1535 and 1574, and Tripoli between 1510 and 1551. The Ottoman Empire included Hungary, Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Albania in southeastern Europe, Syria and Anatolia in western Asia, and Egypt in northeastern Africa. The tributaries of the Ottoman Empire included Moldovia, Transylvania, and Wallachia in east-central Europe, Khanate of Crimea in western Asia, and northern Africa. The Venetian territories are in northeastern Italy. A battle occurred at Lepanto in southeastern Europe in 1571.


Which of the following were tributaries to the Ottoman Empire?

. What was the purpose of the auto-da-fé pictured below?


A painting depicts the top view of a large gathering of people in the Plaza Mayor of Madrid.

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