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| 5908058706 | Sail al-Din | Eponymous founder of the Safavids, Sufi mystic; leader of the Red Heads. | 0 | |
| 5908058707 | Red Heads | Name given to Safavid followers because of their distinctive red headgear. | 1 | |
| 5908058708 | Ismâ'il | Safavid leader; conquered the city of Tabriz in 1501 and was proclaimed shah. | 2 | |
| 5908058709 | Chaldiran | An important battle between the Safavids and Ottomans in 1514; Ottoman victory demonstrated the importance of firearms and checked the western advance of the Safavid Shi'a state. | 3 | |
| 5908058710 | Abbas I, "The Great" | Safavid shah (1587-1629); extended the empire to its greatest extent; used Western military technology. | 4 | |
| 5908058711 | Imams | Shi'a religious leaders who traced their descent to Ali's successors. | 5 | |
| 5908058712 | Mullahs | Religious leaders under the Safavids; worked to convert all subjects to Shi'ism. | 6 | |
| 5908058713 | Isfahan | Safavid capital under Abbas the Great; planned city exemplifying Safavid architecture. | 7 | |
| 5908058714 | Nadir Khan Afshar | Emerged following fall of Safavids; proclaims himself shah, 1736. | 8 | |
| 5908058715 | Babur | Turkic leader who founded the Mughal dynasty; died in 1530. | 9 | |
| 5908058716 | Humayn | Son and successor of Babur; expelled from India in 1540 but returned to restore the dynasty in 1556. | 10 | |
| 5908058717 | Akbar | Son and successor of Humayn; built up the military and administrative structure of the dynasty; followed policies of cooperation and toleration with the Hindu majority. | 11 | |
| 5908058718 | Din-i-Ilahi | Religion initiated by Akbar that blended elements of Islam and Hinduism; did not survive his death. | 12 | |
| 5908058719 | Aurangzeb | Son and successor of Shah Jahan; pushed extent of Mughal control in India; reversed previous policies to purify Islam of Hindu influences; incessant warfare depleted the empire's resources; died in 1707. | 13 | |
| 5908058720 | Taj Mahal | Mausoleum for Mumtaz Mahal, built by her husband Shah Jahan; most famous architectural achievement of Mughal India. |  | 14 |
| 5908058721 | Nur Jahan | Wife of ruler Jahangir who amassed power at the Mughal court and created a faction ruling the empire during the later years of his reign. | 15 | |
| 5908058722 | Mumtaz Mahal | Wife of Shah Jahan; took an active political role in Mughal court; entombed in Taj Mahal. | 16 | |
| 5908058723 | Marattas | People of western India; challenged Mughal rule under Aurangzeb. | 17 | |
| 5908058724 | Sikhs | Indian sect, beginning as a synthesis of Hindu and Muslim faiths; pushed to opposition to Muslim and Mughul rule. | 18 | |
| 5986892883 | Sati | The practice followed by small minorities, usually upper caste, of Indians of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their deceased husbands | 19 | |
| 5986905018 | Purdah | The seclusion of Indian women in their homes | 20 |
