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The Mamluk Sultanate: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge of the Mamluk Sultanate and its historical significance with this engaging quiz.

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1 ________ (1802–1807) Son of Umar

2 The Egyptian troops retreated at first, spurring the sultan to hang more than 50 commanders as ________.

3 Officers of the United States Marine Corps carry a ceremonial Mameluke Sword, and Mamluke swords are used by ________ in festivals.

4 The Russian ambassador in ________ categorically refused to mediate because the Russian government was afraid of allowing Mamluks to return to Georgia, where a strong national liberation movement was on the rise which might have been encouraged by a Mamluk return.

5 1501 ________

6 Mamluks fought well at the ________ on 2 December 1805, and the regiment was granted a standard and its roster increased to accommodate a standard-bearer and a trumpet.

7 The Mamluk Sultanate survived until 1517, when it was conquered by the ________.

8 1250 ________ (al-Salih Ayyub's Widow de facto ruler of Egypt)

9 Near the Al-Azab gates, in a narrow road down from Mukatam Hill, Muhammad Ali's forces ambushed and killed almost all in what came to be known as the ________.

10 In June 1249, the Seventh Crusade under Louis IX of France landed in Egypt and took ________.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Fountain of Qayt Bay, built by the Mamluks in the fifteenth century, has a large reservoir beneath it.
  • the Great Mosque of Gaza (pictured), completed by the Mamluks in 1344, is the largest and one of the oldest mosques in the Gaza Strip.
  • the Yalbugha Mosque was built in 1264 by Mamluk princes in Damascus, Syria.
  • the 1318 Mamluk Qala'un Mosque was considered the most glamorous mosque in Cairo until its wooden dome collapsed in the 16th century.
  • in the 1508 Battle of Chaul in India, a Mamluk-Gujarati fleet defeated a Portuguese fleet under Lourenço de Almeida.
  • from 1747 to 1831, present-day Iraq was ruled by Georgian Mamluks.
  • in 1289, when the Mamluks led by Qalawun captured Tripoli (depicted in artwork) in present-day Lebanon from the Franks, they ended 180 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the longest of any of the major Frankish conquests in the Levant.
  • in the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongol Empire had an alliance with the Armenians against their common enemy, the Muslim Mamluks.
  • Qaqun, a Palestinian village depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, had been continuously inhabited by Arabs since as early as the Mamluk period.
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