Use the Following to Answer Questions

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Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-ulama

• A)Ruling house of the Turkish empire that lasted from 1299 to 1922.
• B)An Arabic word originally used by the Ottomans to describe a supreme political and military ruler.
• C)Chief assistants to caliphs.
• D)A process whereby the sultan's agents swept the provinces for Christian youths to be trained as soldiers or civil servants.
• E)Turkish for "recruits"; they formed the elite army corps.
• F)A woman who is a recognized spouse but of lower status than a wife.
• G)Persian word for "king."
• H)The dynasty that ruled all of Persia and other regions from 1501 to 1722; its state religion was Shi'ism.
• I)Nomadic Turkish Sufis who supplied the early Safavid state with military troops in exchange for grazing rights.
• J)Religious scholars who interpret the Qur'an and the Sunna, the deeds and sayings of Muhammad.
• K)A term used to refer to the Muslim empire of India, which was the largest, wealthiest, and most populous of the Islamic empires of the early modern world.
• L)The native Indian troops who were trained as infantrymen.

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Definitions:

Least Squares Regression

A statistical method that minimizes the sum of the squares of the differences between observed and predicted values, used for fitting a linear model to data.

Slope

The measure of steepness or the degree of inclination of a line, representing the ratio of the vertical and horizontal changes between two points on the line.

Y-Intercept

The point at which a line or curve intersects the y-axis of a graph, representing the value of the dependent variable when the independent variable is zero.

Least Squares Regression

A statistical method used to determine the best-fitting line through a set of points by minimizing the sum of the squares of the vertical distances (residuals) of the points from the line.