Across
- 2. The name that the Ottomans renamed Constantinople
- 6. The battle in which Ottomans defeated the Serbs because of the spreading knowledge of firearms
- 7. The Ottoman sultan's chief minister who carried the main burdens of the state and who led to council meetings
- 9. "holder of power; the military and political head of state under the Seljuk Turks and the Ottomans
- 11. The type of people who introduced Islam to Indonesia
- 14. Traditional beliefs, especially in religion
- 16. "sacred place"; the private domain of an Ottoman sultan, where he and his wives resided
- 17. The Hindu custom of cremating a widow on her husband's funeral pyre
- 18. The tower of a mosque from which the muezzin calls the faithful to prayer five times a day
- 19. The empire that constructed the city of Cairo
Down
- 1. An empire formed by outside conquerors who unified the regions that they conquered through their mastery of firearms
- 3. A local official in Mogul India who received a plot of farmland for temporary use in return for collecting taxes for the central government
- 4. A building used for public worship by Muslims
- 5. A soldier in the elite guard of the Ottoman Turks
- 8. Polictial disorder; lawlessness
- 10. A group of religious advisers to the Ottoman sultan; this group administered the legal system and schools for educating Muslims
- 12. A sultan who ruled for four years as leader of the Ottoman Empire
- 13. An appointed official of the Ottoman Empire who collected taxes, maintained law and order, and was directly responsible to the sultan's court
- 15. An empire that conquered many territories and was labled a "gunpowder empire"
- 17. King(used in Persia and Iran)