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| 144450576 | Suleiman the Magnificent | 1494-1566; the most distinguished sultan of the Ottoman Empire; also known as Suleiman Kanuni, "The Lawgiver". He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean | 0 | |
| 144450577 | Janissary | Christian and other POWs were converted to Islam and made into infantry; abolished in 1826 | 1 | |
| 144450578 | devshirme | Means "selection" in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries Cosmopolitan empire | 2 | |
| 144450579 | Tulip Period | 1718-1730; last year of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul | 3 | |
| 144450580 | Shi'ite Islam | A branch of Islam that states that G-d vests leadership of the community in a descendent of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. Shi'ism is the state religion of Iran | 4 | |
| 144450581 | "Hidden Imam" | Last in a series of 12 descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, whom Shi'tes consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873, he is expected to return as a messiah at the end of time | 5 | |
| 144450582 | Shah Abbas I | r. 1587-1629; the 5th and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran. Abbas moved the royal capital to Isfahan in 1598 | 6 | |
| 144450583 | Akbar I | 1542-1605; most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus | 7 | |
| 144450584 | mansabs | In India, grants of land given in return for service by rulers of the Mughal Empire | 8 | |
| 144450585 | Rajputs | Members of mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar I married a Rajput princess | 9 | |
| 144450586 | Sikhism | Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the 9th guru in 1675, Sikh warriors mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule | 10 | |
| 144450587 | Acheh Sultanate | Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early 17th century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal in 1641 | 11 | |
| 144450588 | Oman | Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southwest region of the Arabian peninsula. Oman succeeded Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean in the 18th century | 12 | |
| 144450589 | Swahili | Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa | 13 | |
| 144450590 | Batavia | Fort established ca. 1619 as headquarters of Dutch East India Company operations in Indonesia. Today the city of Jakarta | 14 |
