Which of the following was NOT true of the Janissaries?
A) Janissaries could not be members of the Sublime Porte.
B) It was a professional and disciplined army of the secular bureaucracy.
C) The Janissaries had many opportunities to move up through the ranks of the army.
D) They were Balkan Christian boys who were kidnapped and converted to Islam.
E) They termed themselves "willing slaves of the sultan."
A
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a. their tenures as president of the NAACP. b. their participation in the desegregation of colleges. c. their work on the legal team which secured victory in Brown v. Board of Education case. d. their role in forming the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
The old Northwest Territory was composed of what is today ________
A) the Northeast B) the Northwest C) the West D) the Rocky Mountain region E) the Midwest
Acknowledging the viewpoints of those with whom a person interacts is called _________. A. worldview B. facework C. perspective taking D. linguistic determinism
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
After the Civil War, most blacks wanted ___________.
a. to work for wages b. a degree of economic autonomy c. to continue working on their former masters’ plantations d. to migrate to the North