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1. Which of these locations was never under Ottoman rule?

2. Constantinople was conquered by the Ottomans under which sultan?

3. The rule of Süleyman the Magnificent is regarded as the golden age of Ottoman history.

4. Major religious groups were allowed to establish their own self-governing communities, called ______, which retained their own religious laws, traditions, and language under the general protection of the Ottoman sultan.

5. The Ottoman Empire’s most elite military corps, the Janissary corps, was originally composed of members drafted from among Christian youths in the Balkans.

6. Muḥammad ʿAlī, pasha and viceroy of Egypt (1805–48), is known for which of the following:

7. The Tulip Period (1717–30) was so called because the cultivation of tulips became a fad in the empire.

8. What side did the Ottoman Empire take in World War I?

9. The Ottoman Empire lost nearly all of its European possessions after which event?

10. At the end of World War I in 1918, the Ottoman Empire was dissolved by the Armistice of Mudros.