Janissaries were .
Outcasts in Ottoman society who helped undermine the regime of the Sultans from within
Christian boys kidnapped and raised as highly trained troops in the Ottoman army
Islamic missionaries who spread the faith to Indonesia and the Philippines
Christian missionaries who established outposts in the Ottoman Empire and encouraged religious toleration across the empire
None of the other answer choices is correct; Janissaries were troops in the Russian Empire of Peter the Great
Which empire was often referred to as “the sick man of Europe” during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Spanish Empire
The British Empire
The Ottoman Empire
The Russian Empire