Question: In what siege was Suleiman the Magnificent stopped when attacking Vienna in 1532?
Answer: the Siege of Güns

Question: France and the Ottoman Empire united against what?
Answer: Habsburg rule

Question: Where did the French lay conquest in 1553?
Answer: Corsica

Question: The conquest of Nice was an effort by Suleiman and what French king?
Answer: Francis I

Question: What were the names of the Ottoman admirals who commanded the conquest of Nice?
Answer: Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha and Turgut Reis

Question: What ruler recognized the Ottomans in 1547?
Answer: Ferdinand

Question: Who argues that there was steep decline and stagnation after the death of Suleiman?
Answer: Stephen Lee

Question: In what year did Suleiman die?
Answer: 1566

Question: By what year was it argued that the Ottoman empire was merely "a shadow" of what it was in 1566?
Answer: 1699

Question: Beginning and ending with what years does Lee argue that the rules of the Empire were incompetent?
Answer: 1566 to 1703

Question: What factor caused inflation in the Ottoman empire?
Answer: war

Question: Poor rule by what class of people strained the empire?
Answer: Sultans

Question: Europeans gained on the Ottoman empire in what type of technology? 
Answer: military technology

Question: What types of conservative beliefs slowed the expansion of the empire?
Answer: religious and intellectual

Question: What battle took place in 1683?
Answer: Battle of Vienna

Question: The empire ceased its expansion into what area after a battle in 1683?
Answer: Europe

Question: Avoiding the strength of Ottoman trade was accomplished with the discovery of what?
Answer: new maritime trade routes

Question: What did the Portuguese discover in 1488?
Answer: the Cape of Good Hope

Question: Where did the Ottoman and Portuguese have Naval wars in the 16th century?
Answer: the Indian Ocean

Question: Who did the Ottomans ally with in the Indian Ocean?
Answer: The Somali Muslim Ajuran Empire

Question: New coins were a proclamation of independence by the Somali Muslim Ajuran Empire from whom?
Answer: the Portuguese

Question: Which Spaniard led a battle in 1571?
Answer: Philip II

Question: What battle did the Spanish win in 1571?
Answer: Battle of Lepanto

Question: What siege occurred in 1565?
Answer: Siege of Malta

Question: In what year did Venice sign a peace treaty with the Ottomans?
Answer: 1573

Question: After signing a peace treaty with Venice, in what region did the Ottoman empire expand?
Answer: North Africa

Question: What was the late 16th century war against Habsburg Austria known as?
Answer: The Long War

Question: During what years did the Ottoman war against Habsburg Austria occur?
Answer: 1593–1606

Question: What were ottoman irregular sharpshooters known as?
Answer: Sekban

Question: What was the population of the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the 17th century?
Answer: 30 million people

Question: A war occurring from 1603 to 1618 resulted in what treaty?
Answer: Treaty of Nasuh Pasha

Question: Who recaptured Iraq in 1639?
Answer: Murad IV

Question: Who had control over Iraq before it was recaptured in 1639?
Answer: the Safavids

Question: When was Kösem murdered?
Answer: 1651

Question: What years define the Köprülü Era?
Answer: 1656–1703

Question: What territory was conquered by the Köprülü Vizierate in 1669?
Answer: Crete

Question: Which Grand Vizier attempted a siege of Vienna in 1683?
Answer: Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Pasha

Question: What was the war that took place from 1683 to 1687 known as?
Answer: the Great Turkish War

Question: Which polish king led the fight against the Ottoman empire in the Battle of Vienna?
Answer: Jan III Sobieski

Question: What was the alliance against the late 17th century Ottoman empire known as?
Answer: the Holy League

Question: What treaty was signed 26 January 1699?
Answer: Treaty of Karlowitz

Question: Oltenia is also known as what?
Answer: Little Walachia

Question: The Austro-Turkish war took place over what years?
Answer: 1716–1718

Question: The Austro Turkish War culminated in the signing of what treaty?
Answer: Treaty of Passarowitz

Question: The Treaty of Belgrade was the result of a war known as what?
Answer: Austro-Russian–Turkish War

Question: What port was lost by the Ottoman empire as a result of the Treaty of Belgrade?
Answer: port of Azov

Question: What is one university that was formed in the early 18th century of the empire?
Answer: Istanbul Technical University

Question: What type of school was established in the empire in 1734?
Answer: an artillery school

Question: In 1754 what man convinced the Grand Vizier to allow the use of the printing press?
Answer: Ibrahim Muteferrika

Question: Who was the Ottoaman Grand Vizier in 1726?
Answer: Nevşehirli Damat İbrahim Pasha

Question: In what year did an Ottoman press produce its first book?
Answer: 1729

Question: Which group supported by Russia entered Balta in 1768?
Answer: Ukrainian Haidamaks

Question: Near what region was Balta bording?
Answer: Bessarabia

Question: During what years was the Russo-Turkish war?
Answer: 1768–1774

Question: The Russo-Turkish War resulted in what treaty?
Answer: Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca

Question: The culmination of the Russo-Turkish war granted what to the citizens of Ottoman controlled Provinces in Moldavia?
Answer: freedom to worship

Question: During what years did the Serbian Revolution occur?
Answer: 1804–1815

Question: What Serbian monarchy was acknowledged in 1830?
Answer: Suzerainty of Serbia

Question: There was a war proclaimed against the Ottoman Sultan in 1821, who declared it?
Answer: the Greeks

Question: Some parts of the Ottoman Empire gained independence in what year?
Answer: 1829

Question: What did Europeans refer to the Ottoman empire as in the 19th century?
Answer: the "sick man"

Question: How many primary schools existed for Christians in the Ottoman empire in 1861?
Answer: 571

Question: How many Christian pupils were in ottoman schools in 1861?
Answer: 140,000

Question: Greeks in Istanbul owned how many wholesale companies in 1911?
Answer: 528

Question: There were how many wholesale companies in Istanbul in 1911?
Answer: 654

Question: Jews and Christians were offered protection in the form of what assistance by Europe?
Answer: consuls and citizenship

Question: During what years did the Crimean War take place?
Answer: 1853–1856

Question: On what date did the Ottoman empire issue foreign loans to deal with the cost of the war?
Answer: 4 August 1854

Question: Roughly 200,000 individuals of what group left Crimea during the war?
Answer: Crimean Tatars

Question: Roughly 90% of what group were pushed from their homes or ethnically cleansed during the Caucasian Wars?
Answer: Circassians

Question: Where did Circassians settle to when leaving their homes in the Caucasus?
Answer: Turkey

Question: What historian wrote that banks were the single greatest threat to mid-east independence? 
Answer: Eugene Rogan

Question: In what year did the Ottoman Empire declare bankruptcy?
Answer: 1875

Question: What was the administration that the empire used to control its debt called?
Answer: Ottoman Public Debt Administration

Question: Who served on the debt controlling administration of the Ottoman Empire?
Answer: European men with presidency alternating between France and Britain.

Question: European capital in the Ottoman empire resulted in what?
Answer: the detriment of local Ottoman interests

Question: Who held back the Bulgarian uprising in 1876?
Answer: Ottoman bashi-bazouks

Question: What war occurred from 1877 to 1878?
Answer: Russo-Turkish War

Question: Bulgaria became independent within the Empire as the result of what war?
Answer: The Russo-Turkish War

Question: What nation attained full independence as a result of the Russo-Turkish war?
Answer: Romania

Question: Millions of Muslims left the empire and migrated to what places?
Answer: Anatolia and Eastern Thrace