Devshirme was a system in which

a: european trading posts were expelled from safavid territory
b: hindu temples in india were replaced with mughal mosques
c: young christian males were required to serve the ottoman sultan
d: sunni muslims in persia were forced to convert to shia islam

The correct answer is "C": Devoting or Devshirme was the practice by which the Ottoman Empire recruited children from Christian families to be trained as Janissary soldiers, who were forced to convert to Islam. This practice was motivated by the desire to create a class of elite soldiers loyal only to the sultan, rather than the Turkish Ottoman nobility.

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