_____ werehighly disciplined soldiers who were captured as children by the Ottomans, mainly in the Christian Balkans, and whohad, as a result, no ties of loyalty to anyone but the Ottomanstate.
A. Arquebusiers
B. Berserkers
C. Janissaries
D. Musketeers
C. Janissaries
Explanation: In the decades after the Black Death, the successors of Osman,the Ottomans, seized parts of the Balkans and beganto build a highly disciplined army of “Janissaries”: soldierscaptured as children, mainly in the Christian Balkans, whohad, as a result, no ties of loyalty to anyone but the Ottomanstate.
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