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.
Answer: B
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