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| 8472180453 | Shiism | affected the psychological life of the people, enhanced the self-image of the ulama as independent of imperial authority and slowed the trend of religious scholars' becoming subordinate government functionaries, as happened with many Ottoman ulama, felt the impact of these rites most strongly. | 0 | |
| 8472181430 | Sikhism | Began in the region of Punjab in northwestern India. It brought change into India's religious system during the Mughal period. | 1 | |
| 8472182570 | Mughul | This empire's founder, Babur, was of Timur descent. Although ... means "Mongol", Timurids were Turkic. Because Timur had married into the family of Genghis Khan, | 2 | |
| 8472183843 | zamindars | landowners who usually leased their land to farmers. | 3 | |
| 8472186862 | Safavid | The "enemy" of the Ottoman Empire. It resembled the Ottoman Empire in many ways. Diverse in its people's culture. Mainly land based. Struggled to pay their troops armed with firearms. | 4 | |
| 8472187443 | janissary | the new troops innovated by the Ottomans which gave a great military flexibility to the Ottomans. | 5 | |
| 8472188044 | Ottoman Empire | This empire began in 1300 as a small empire but grew up to become larger than most empire of southeastern Europe around late 15th century. | 6 | |
| 8472189133 | devshirme | a new training system for the Janissary where taxation was put upon male children on Christian villages in the Balkans area as well as other places. ... children would be taken to a Turkish family and learn their culture, later entering the military themselves. | 7 | |
| 8472190964 | Shari'a | the law of Islam as interpreted by local ulama (religious scholars), conditioned urban institutions and social life | 8 | |
| 8472190965 | Balkans | Land in Southeastern and Eastern Europe. leather. The conquest of Christian territories in the ... in the late fourteenth century, however, gave the Ottomans access to a new military resource: Christian prisoners of war induced to serve as military slaves. ... townsfolk sought justice in religious law courts and depended on local notables and religious leaders to represent them before Ottoman provincial officials. ... regions such as Albania and Bosnia had large numbers of converts, and Islam gradually became the majority religion. | 9 | |
| 8472192330 | Anatolia | By 1402, most of ... was under the rule of sultans. ... suffered greatly from emigrating and losing their agricultural produces, a result of their rebellions. | 10 | |
| 8472193794 | Tulip period | (1718-1730) the time period during the Ottoman rule where Dutch tulips were brought and people began to seek for the expensive bulbs. | 11 | |
| 8472194382 | Safaviya | the hereditary leader of the Sufi brotherhood, a militant. | 12 | |
| 8472194729 | Hidden Imam | Ali's 12th descendant. Believed to have disappeared during its childhood during the 19th century, leading to the Shi'ite community to lack in a proper religious system until he returned. | 13 | |
| 8472195592 | Uzbeks | Turkish rulers who had succeeded the Timurids on Iran's Central Asian frontier; | 14 |
