Packet 7: Bonus 14

This woman wrote a letter claiming “her liver had been broiled” from missing her husband while ruling a city in his stead. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this woman who shattered centuries of Ottoman tradition by formally marrying a sultan. This wife of Suleiman the Magnificent was the first Haseki Sultan.
ANSWER: Roxelana [accept Hürrem Sultan]
[10e] Roxelana commissioned the architect Mimar Sinan to design one of these buildings with a six galleried minaret. The Ottomans turned the Hagia Sophia into one of these religious sites.
ANSWER: mosque [accept masjid; accept jami’]
[10m] Because Roxelana was the mother of a sultan with this name nicknamed “the Drunkard,” she was an ancestor of every succeeding Ottoman Sultan. A sultan with this name was nicknamed “the Grim.”
ANSWER: Selim [accept Selim I or Selim the Grim or Selim the Resolute; accept Selim II or Selim the Blond or Selim the Drunkard]
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