What was the steppe tradition that caused the greatest problem for the Islamic empires?

Mughal ruler who constructed the Taj Mahal

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires were all 

The founder of the Ottoman dynasty was 

The Ottoman ruler who captured Constantinople was 

The Islamic leader who converted to Twelver Shiism was 

Central to the belief of the Twelver Shiism was the idea that 

the twelfth infallible imam was still alive and would return to spread his faith

At the battle of Chaldiran in 1514

the Ottomans defeated the Safavids

The leader of the Safavid empire at its peak was

Which of the following rulers displayed the greatest amount of religious toleration?

Akbar's answer to the religious diversity and tension of India was to

create a synthetic religion called the "divine faith" that all could worship

The Mughal empire reached its greatest geographic extent during the reign of

The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb

reversed the religious toleration of Akbar and began to tax Hindus

The steppe tradition that caused the greatest problem for the Islamic empires

was the bloody competition among heirs to the throne 

Because of the protests from moralists, the Ottoman sultan Murad IV

outlawed coffee and tobacco

Shah Jahan was unable to finish the construction of the Taj Mahal because

he was overthrown by his son Aurangzeb

Which of the following factors was not one of the reasons for the decline of the Islamic empires?

a collapse in the centuries-old civil service examination system

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