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| 52993784 | Osman | Chief of a seminomadic Turks who migrated to northwestern Anatolia in the 13th century and founder of the Ottoman empire | 0 | |
| 52993785 | Mehmed the Conqueror | (reigned 1451-1481) Captured Constantinople in 1453 | 1 | |
| 52993786 | Suleyman the Magnificent | (reigned 1520-1566) the Ottoman empire was at its high during his reign, 1534 captured Bagdad and Tigris and Euphrates, and conqured many more | 2 | |
| 52993787 | Shah Ismail | (reigned 1501-1524 at a young age) in the next 10 years he took control of the Iranean platue and launched expectations to Caucasus, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and central Asia | 3 | |
| 52993788 | Shah Abbas | (reigned 1588-1629) fully revitalized the Safavid Empire, with the new army he lad the Safavids to many victories | 4 | |
| 52993789 | Babur | (1523-1530) found the Mughal dynasty in India before his death | 5 | |
| 52993790 | Akbar | (reigned 1556-1606) grandson of Babur and the architect of the Mughal dynasty | 6 | |
| 52993791 | Aurangzeb | (reigned 1659-1707) reached the greatest extent with Aurangzeb and pushed the Mughal dynasty deep into southern India | 7 | |
| 52993792 | Ottomans | followers of Osman I, Turkish Muslims; treated people of conquered territories well | 8 | |
| 52993793 | Safavids | Founder Shah Ismail who conquered Tabriz and forced the Twelver Shiism as the religion into his Sunni population, He traced his ancestry to Safi al-Din, Battle of Chaldiran 1514 lost to the Ottomans who injured the Safavid state, Peak under Shah Abbas r1588-1629 the Great revitalized the empire brought NW Iran, the Caucauses and Mesopotamia under Safivid Rule | 9 | |
| 52993794 | Mughals | Mongols of the Indian Subcontinent. This name was used because they were a mix of the islamic mongols and the native hindus | 10 | |
| 52993795 | Ghazi | Warrior for Islam | 11 | |
| 52993796 | Janissaries | Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan | 12 | |
| 52993797 | 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 | |
| 52993798 | Qizilbash | term meaning red heads, or turksih tribes who callied wiht Sha Ismail in formation of Safavid Empire | 14 | |
| 52993799 | 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 | |
| 52993800 | Taj Mahal | beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife | 16 |
