6793439289 | Abu Bakr | Period 3, father in law, became the first Caliph/Caliphate ("successor"), 630's | 0 | |
6793482233 | Caliph Harun al- Rashid | Abbasid Caliph, 786- 809, made universities, medicine, philosophy, banking systems, sakk= check, made trading easier, calligraphy: icons banned | 1 | |
6793496682 | Saladin | 1138- 1193, Egyptian Arab, took Jerusalem, "you have three days- get out," well respected by Christians because merciful, Muslim city until post WWI | 2 | |
6793516927 | Basil II | 958- 1025, eliminated the enemy of the West, the Bulgars, allowed Byzantium to focus on combatting Islam | 3 | |
6793529289 | Sultan Mehmed II | conquered Constantinople, became an Islamic capital, kept expanding from there (Balkans>Eastern Europe>etc), fall of Byzantine | 4 | |
6793671831 | Sultan Selim the Grim | 1515, Ottoman Sultan, expansion to the West and South (Syria, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Damascus, Baghdad), added a navy | 5 | |
6793676198 | Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent | most accomplished Ottoman Sultan, continued to expand to North Africa, Eastern Europe (Hungary, Austria- HRE during Reformation), protected people, builder (mosques, bridges, statues), jizya tax, coffee houses built (for discussion, social, added to export of coffee) | 6 | |
6793684835 | Shah Ismail | Centralized through Twelver Shiism, thought he is al-Mahdi/reincarnation of God, Ottoman Sunni offended= war, Sunni (Ottoman) vs Shiite (Safavid), Ottomans won | 7 | |
6793688389 | Akbar | height of Mughal power, most of india under power (expanded to Southern Hindu Kingdoms area), bureaucracy, tolerance: brought Hindus into the government, jizya, worked with the Ottomans | 8 | |
6793690728 | Aurangzeb | intolerant, burn Hindu temples, increased jizya Hindu tax= conflict Taj Mahal | 9 | |
6793702692 | Muhammad Ali | separated Egypt from Ottoman (lost important Nile River) during Period 5 | 10 | |
6793709769 | Selim III | Ottoman Sultan Want a modern military Conservative Janissaries rejected ("how dare you bring western ideas, we are good enough!" | 11 | |
6822523352 | France | What colonizer controlled Algeria? | 12 | |
6822527431 | Algeria | What decolonized country had NLF? | 13 | |
6822530816 | Kenya | What decolonized country had Mau Mau (violent group) | 14 | |
6822539160 | Lumumba | Who was the leader of the Congo, critiqued the UN (should improve infrastructure, didn't help), turned to the USSR= linked? | 15 | |
6822546503 | Mobutu | Who was the dictator of the Congo, coup d'etat, (US CIA help), anti- Christian, portrayed him as a god, one- party state, lived very wealthy, people starving, ruled for 30 years? | 16 | |
6822572425 | 6 Day War | What was the war with Arabs vs Israel, Israel won (US support), gained land, confirmed that Arabs can't win through traditional war= terrorism? | 17 | |
6822573450 | Shah Pahlavi | Who was a dictator installed by US in Iran, police state SAVAK, people suffer? | 18 | |
6822577892 | Khomeini | Who was the Iranian leader of the Iranian Revolution against Shah Pahlavi, "puppet of the west! abandoning Islam!" Black Friday Protest, whole state rebel Shah> fled, new, ruled through the imams? | 19 | |
6822598562 | Hussein | Who was the President Iraq Ba'ath Party, first act: calls out and kills traitors, tested gas on own people, war with Iran (Khomeini)? | 20 | |
6822626473 | Dollar diplomacy | How does the US neocolonize Latin America? | 21 | |
6822731804 | Somozas | What right-wing family had control of Nicaragua and was supported by the US (Cold War) and given money after overthrown with the Iran-Contra Scandal? | 22 | |
6822735680 | Sandinistas | What was the name of the liberal group in Nicaragua? | 23 | |
6822748372 | Peron | Who was the nationalist dictator of Argentina, wife is Evita, diversified the economy? | 24 |
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