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| 52749290 | Osman | he was the founder of the Ottoman Empire and was the chief of a band of seminomadic Turks who migrated to northwestern Anatolia | 0 | |
| 52749291 | Mehmed the Conqueror | he captured Constantinople in 1453 which opened a new chapter in Ottoman expansion | 1 | |
| 52749292 | Suleyman the Magnificent | he vigorously promoted Ottoman expansion both in the southwest Asia and in Europe | 2 | |
| 52749293 | Shah Ismail | he was the founder of the safavid empire | 3 | |
| 52749294 | Shah Abbas | he moved the capital to the more central location of Isfahan, encouraged trade with other lands, and reformed the administrative and military institutions | 4 | |
| 52749295 | Babur | real name-- Zahir al-Din Muhammad; he created a centralized, absolutist government; he founded the Mughal empire | 5 | |
| 52749296 | Akbar | grandson of Babur; he created a centralized administrative structure with ministries regulating the various provinces of the empire; he destroyed the Hindu kingdom of Vijayanagar | 6 | |
| 52749297 | Aurangzeb | during his reign, he waged a relentless campaign to push Mughal authority deep into southern India | 7 | |
| 52749298 | Ottomans | they conquered large parts of Balkans; was unified under Mehmed I | 8 | |
| 52749299 | Safavids | were Shah Ismail's family; changed their religious preferences several times in the hope of gaining popular support before settling on a form of Shiism that appealed to the nomadic Turkish tribes; | 9 | |
| 52749300 | Moghals | expanded to embrace almost all the Indian subcontinent | 10 | |
| 52749301 | Ghazi | Muslim religious warriors | 11 | |
| 52749302 | Janissaries | they were Christian prisoners who were captured, converted to Islam, and then were trained to serve the military administration | 12 | |
| 52749303 | Twelver Shiism | Held the believe that there were twelve infallible imams (religious leaders) after Muhammad, beginning with the prophet's cousin and son-in-law, Ali. The twelve imam was hidden and the Twelver Shiites believed that when he returned he would take power and spread his true religion. The followers called quizilbash wore red hats with twelve pleats to symbolize the twelve imams. | 13 | |
| 52749304 | Qizilbash | "red heads" known for wearing a red hat that had 12 pleats in memory of the 12th imam | 14 | |
| 52749305 | Sikhism | a new faith which came about from the combination of elements of Islam and Hinduism | 15 | |
| 52749306 | Taj Mahal | a sumptuous mosque and tomb which was built between 1632 and 1649 by Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal | 16 |
