Question 20 Match the excerpt to the correct description Group of answer choices To tell you the truth, if I had not been told beforehand that they were Janissaries, I should, without hesitation, have taken them for members of some order of Turkish monks, or brethren of some Moslem college. Yet these are the famous Janissaries, whose approach inspires terror everywhere. [ Choose ] This is section of a proclamation by the founder of the Persian empire This is from one of Ashoka's proclamations This is a description of people from the Ottoman empire This is a description of a ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate This is a description of the Delhi Sultanate
Question 20
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To tell you the truth, if I had not been told beforehand that they were Janissaries, I should, without hesitation, have taken them for members of some order of Turkish monks, or brethren of some Moslem college. Yet these are the famous Janissaries, whose approach inspires terror everywhere.
[ Choose ] This is section of a proclamation by the founder of the Persian empire This is from one of Ashoka's proclamations This is a description of people from the Ottoman empire This is a description of a ruler of the Abbasid Caliphate This is a description of the Delhi Sultanate
Marduk, the great Lord, was well pleased with my deeds and sent friendly blessings to myself, Cyrus, the king who worships him, to Cambyses, my son, the offspring of my loins, as well as to all my troops, and we all [praised] his great [godhead] joyously, standing before him in peace.
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In the Caliph's palace are great riches and towers filled with gold, silken garments and all precious stones. He does not issue forth from his palace save once in the year, at the feast which the Mohammedans call El-id-bed Ramazan, and they come from distant lands that day to see him.
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The plague caused the people of Aleppo the same disturbance. Oh, if you could see the nobles of Aleppo studying their incomprehensible books of medicine. They follow its remedies by eating dried and sour foods. The buboes which disturb men's healthy lives are smeared with Armenian clay.
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The people are Idolaters; and since they were conquered by the Great Kaan they use paper-money. Both men and women are fair and comely, and for the most part clothe themselves in silk, so vast is the supply of that material, both from the whole district of Kinsay, and from the imports by traders from other provinces.
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The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
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