Which of the following best explains the reasons why young men were conscripted into the

janissaries?

The Ottomans did not have enough young men to farm their ever$-$expanding territories.

The Ottomans were carrying out a religious decree that required them to convert as many non$-$

Muslims to Islam as possible.

The Ottomans needed soldiers and administrators and the devshirme method of collecting such

people was a way to guarantee loyalty to the sultan and his State.

The Ottomans wanted to prevent those whom they had beaten at battle from rising up against them

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again, so they took away those most likely to do SO$.$