Janissaries were .
Islamic missionaries who spread the faith to Indonesia and the Philippines
Outcasts in Ottoman society who helped undermine the regime of the Sultans from within
Christian missionaries who established outposts in the Ottoman Empire and encouraged religious toleration across the empire
Christian boys kidnapped and raised as highly trained troops in the Ottoman army
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 Ottoman Empire
The British Empire
The Russian Empire
The Austro-Hungarian Empire
The Spanish Empire