Ottoman Expansion

question 64

Multiple Choice

Ottoman expansion

• A) was achieved without any change in military organization or technology between 1400 and1700.
• B) relied heavily on the development of the Janissaries and new artillery weapons and tactics in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
• C) absorbed Persia and Samarkand during the 1570s.
• D) seized Ukraine during the late 1600s, but it was lost again in the early 1700s.
• E) saw the use of slaves as conscript soldiers.

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