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| 6532175097 | Crusades | invasions of western Christians into Muslim lands, especially Palestine; captured Jerusalem and established Christian kingdoms enduring until 1291. | 0 | |
| 6532175098 | Saadin | (1137-1193); Muslim ruler of Egypt and Syria; reconquered most of the crusader kingdoms. | 1 | |
| 6532175099 | Ibn Khaldun | great Muslim historian; author of The Muqaddimah; sought to uncover persisting patterns in Muslim dynastic history. | 2 | |
| 6532175100 | Shah-Nama | epic poem written by Firdawsi in the late 10th and early 11th centuries; recounts the history of Persia to the era of Islamic conquests. | 3 | |
| 6532175101 | ulama | Islamic religious scholars; pressed for a more conservative and restrictive theology; opposed to non-Islamic thinking. | 4 | |
| 6532175102 | al-Ghazali | brilliant Islamic theologian; attempted to fuse Greek and Qur'anic traditions. | 5 | |
| 6532175103 | Mongols | central Asian nomadic peoples; captured Baghdad in 1258 and killed the last Abbasid caliph. | 6 | |
| 6532175104 | Chinggis Khan | (1162-1227); Mongol ruler; defeated the Turkish Persian kingdoms. | 7 | |
| 6532175105 | Hulegu | grandson of Chinggis Khan; continued his work, taking Baghdad in 1258. | 8 | |
| 6532175106 | Mamluks | Rulers of Egypt, descended from Turkish slaves. | 9 | |
| 6532175107 | Muhammad ibn Qasim | Arab general who conquered Sind and made it part of the Umayyad Empire. | 10 | |
| 6532175108 | Mahmud of Ghazni | ruler of an Afghan dynasty; invaded northern India during the 11th century. | 11 | |
| 6532175109 | Muhammad of Ghur | Persian ruler of a small Afghan kingdom; invaded and conquered much of northern India. | 12 | |
| 6532175110 | Qutb-ud- din Aibak | lieutenant of Muhammad of Ghur; established kingdom in India with the capital at Delhi. | 13 | |
| 6532175111 | bhaktic cults | Hindu religious groups who stressed the importance of strong emotional bonds between devotees and the gods or goddesses—especially Shiva, Vishnu, and Kali. | 14 | |
| 6532175112 | Mir Bai | low-caste woman poet and songwriter in bhaktic cults. | 15 | |
| 6532175113 | Kabir | 15th-century Muslim mystic who played down the differences between Hinduism and Islam. | 16 | |
| 6532175114 | Shrivijaya | trading empire based on the Malacca straits; its Buddhist government resisted Muslim missionaries; when it fell, southeastern Asia was opened to Islam. | 17 | |
| 6532175115 | Malacca | flourishing trading city in Malaya; established a trading empire after the fall of Shrivijaya. | 18 | |
| 6532175116 | Demak | most powerful of the trading states on the north Java coast; converted to Islam and served as a dissemination point to other regions. | 19 | |
| 6532175117 | Cyrus the Great | (c. 576 or 590-529 B.C.E.); founded Persian Empire by 550 B.C.E.; successor state to Mesopotamian empires. | 20 | |
| 6532175118 | Zoroastrianism | Persian religion that saw material existence as a battle between the forces of good and evil; stressed the importance of moral choice; a last judgment decided the eternal fate of each person. | 21 | |
| 6532175119 | Olympic Games | one of the pan-Hellenic rituals observed by all Greek citystates; involved athletic competitions and ritual celebrations. | 22 | |
| 6532175120 | Pericles | Athenian political leader during 5th century B.C.E.; guided development of Athenian Empire. | 23 | |
| 6532175121 | Peloponnesian War | war from 431 to 404 B.C.E. between Athens and Sparta for domination in Greece; the Spartans won but failed to achieve political unification in Greece. | 24 |
