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| 10711409646 | Ottoman Empire | Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the _______ ______ was based at Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and eastern Europe. | 0 | |
| 10711423097 | Suleiman the Magnificent | The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire (r. 1520-1566); also known as "The Lawgiver." He significantly expanded the empire in the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean. | 1 | |
| 10711443256 | Janissaries | Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826. | 2 | |
| 10711476053 | Tulip Period | (1718-1730) Last years of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul. | 3 | |
| 10711481815 | Safavid Empire | Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state. | 4 | |
| 10711487451 | Shi'ites | Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali. _______ is the state religion of Iran. | 5 | |
| 10711498901 | Hidden Imam | Last in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, whom Shi'ites 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. | 6 | |
| 10711509218 | Shah Abbas I | The fifth and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran (r. 1587-1629). _____ moved the royal capital to Isfahan in 1598. | 7 | |
| 10711520558 | Mughal Empire | Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | 8 | |
| 10711524171 | Akbar | Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. | 9 | |
| 10711526801 | mansabs | In India, grants of land given in return for service by rulers of the Mughal Empire. | 10 | |
| 10711532722 | Rajputs | Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar married a princess from this member. | 11 | |
| 10711548462 | Acheh Sultanate | Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal in 1641. | 12 | |
| 10711560499 | Oman | Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southwest region of the Arabian peninsula. ____ succeeded Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century. | 13 | |
| 10711578191 | Swahili | Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa. | 14 | |
| 10711581978 | Batavia | Fort established in 1619 as headquarters of Dutch East India Company operations in Indonesia; today the city of Jakarta. | 15 |
