Across
- 2. Elite Ottoman soldiers trained through the devshirme system
- 4. The new name for Constantinople, which became the Ottoman capital
- 6. The Byzantine capital city, renamed Istanbul after the Ottomans captured it
- 7. Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 and made it the capital
- 8. A powerful Muslim empire that ruled parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa from the 1300s to the early 1900s
Down
- 1. A large peninsula in modern-day Turkey where the Ottoman Empire began
- 3. The title used by rulers of the Ottoman Empire
- 5. Great Ottoman ruler known as “the Lawgiver” who expanded the empire and created laws
- 7. Communities of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire who could practice their religion if they paid taxes
- 9. Founder of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1300s
