The janissaries were recruited from
A. the ranks of the Ottoman military elite.
B. the local Christian population in the Balkans.
C. the Mamluk slave armies.
D. the Ottoman countryside.
E. Italy, France, and Spain.
Answer: B
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A) German Empire B) Carolingian Empire C) Irish kingdoms D) Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
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A) Congressional laws setting a quota system according to the home country. B) Americans embracement of the "Melting Pot" theory. C) the American movement toward assimilation. D) none of the above.
Tsar Nicholas II abdicated his throne as a result of strikes that broke out
a. in Moscow in late 1918. b. after working class women staged a massive food march in Petrograd. c. in Warsaw after the 1916 crop failure. d. after the Memorial Day Massacre of steel workers. e. after the police murdered a Socialist Revolutionary leader in the Winter Palace.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)