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| 129456068 | Osman | most successful warrior and "founder" of Ottomans | 0 | |
| 129456069 | Mehmed the Conquerer | Son of Murad II, launched an attack on Constantinople in 1453 at the young age of 21 | 1 | |
| 129456070 | Suleyman the magnificant | reign began 1520; led attacks on Europe, ruler who presided over the height of Ottoman dominance and cultural influence | 2 | |
| 129456071 | Shah Ismail | Founder of Safavid Empire in 1501, ruled until 1524; made Twelver Shiism the official religion of the empire and imposed it upon his Sunni subjects; his followers became known as qizilbash; | 3 | |
| 129456072 | Shah Abbas | Also known as Abbas the Great, took the throne in 1587 and helped create the Safavid culture | 4 | |
| 129456073 | Babur | founder of Mughal dynasty in India; descended from Turkic warriors; first led invasion of India in 1526; died in 1530. | 5 | |
| 129456074 | Akbar | sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. (p. 536) | 6 | |
| 129456075 | Aurangzeb | Mughal emperor in India and great-grandson of Akbar 'the Great', under whom the empire reached its greatest extent, only to collapse after his death | 7 | |
| 129456076 | Ottomons | Followers of the great Muslim Dynasty in control from 1451-1556 | 8 | |
| 129456077 | Safavids | A shi'ite muslim dynasty that ruled in Persia (Iran and parts of Iraq) from the 16th-18th centuries that had a mixed culture of the persians, ottomans and arabs | 9 | |
| 129456078 | Mughals | Mongols of the Indian Subcontinent. This name was used because they were a mix of the islamic mongols and the native hindus | 10 | |
| 129456079 | Ghazi | A warrior for Islam | 11 | |
| 129456080 | Janissaries | Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan | 12 | |
| 129456081 | Twelver Shiism | a belief that there were 12 infallible imam (religious leaders) after Muhammad and the 12th went into hiding and would return to take power and spread the true religion | 13 | |
| 129456082 | Qizilbash | term meaning red heads, or turksih tribes who callied wiht Sha Ismail in formation of Safavid Empire | 14 | |
| 129456083 | Sikhism | the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam | 15 | |
| 129456084 | Taj Mahal | beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife | 16 | |
| 129456085 | Dhimmi | Literally "people of the book"; applied as inclusive term to Jews and Christians in Islamic territories; later extended to Zoroastrians and even Hindus & Buddhists | 17 |
