The Janissaries were
A) religious leaders under the control of the Ottoman state.
B) powerful members of the warrior aristocracy within the Ottoman Empire who dominated regional administration.
C) slave troops of the Ottoman forcibly conscripted as adolescents from conquered territories.
D) eunuchs from the royal family charged with care of the imperial harem.
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