MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION Mehmet II built the Topkapi Palace

to be a training ground
for the military

to be a place of Islamic
worship

to be the center of a
democratic government

to showcase the absolute
power of the sultan

Explanation:

Initially constructed between 1460 and 1478 by Sultan Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, and expanded upon and altered many times throughout its long history, the palace served as the home of the Ottoman sultans and their court until the middle of the 19th century. To showcase the absolute power of the sultan.

mali had been a state inside of the ghanaian empire. after ghana fell because of invading forces and internal disputes, mali rose to greatness under the leadership of a legendary king named sundiata, the "lion king." the songhai empire, already weakened by internal political struggles, went into decline.