208035116 | Harun Al-rashid | most famous of Abbassid Caliphs; renowned for costly living; death led to civil wars' over succession | 0 | |
208035117 | Buyids | Regional splinter dynasty of the mid-10th century; invaded and captured Baghdad; ruled abbassid dynasty under the name of sultan; abbassids were their figureheads | 1 | |
208035118 | Seljuk Turks | nomadic invaders from central asia via persia | 2 | |
208035119 | Crusades | series of military adventures intitially launched by western christians to free holy land from Muslims | 3 | |
208035120 | Saladin | Muslim leader in the last decades of the 12th century; reconquered moste crusader out-posts for Islam | 4 | |
208035121 | Rubaiyat | persian poetry consisting of 4 quatrains | 5 | |
208035122 | Sa'di | Wrote many books and studied the Quran and Islamic law intently | 6 | |
208035123 | Ulama | orthodox religious scholors within islam | 7 | |
208035124 | Al-Ghazali | Brilliant islamic theologian; struggled to fuse Greek and Quranic traditions; not entirely accepted by Ulama | 8 | |
208035125 | Sufis | mystics within islam; responsible for expansion of Islam to SE asia | 9 | |
208035126 | Mongols | Central Asia nomadic peoples | 10 | |
208035127 | Arabic numerals | Characters 0-9 in general european use since 12th century | 11 | |
208035128 | Harsha | Emporer of Northern India; Buddhist convert in Hindu Era | 12 | |
208035129 | Sati | Buddhist word meaning awareness or skillfull attentivness | 13 | |
208035130 | Bhaktic cults | hindu groups dedicated to gods and goddesses | 14 | |
208035131 | Malacca | portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the tip of malayan peninsula | 15 | |
208035132 | Maghrib | the arabic word for western north africa | 16 | |
208035133 | Ethiopia | christian kingdom thta developed in highlands of eastern africa under the dynasty of king lalaibela | 17 | |
208035134 | Sahel | the extensive grassland belt at the southern edge of the sahara | 18 | |
208035135 | Mansa Krankan Musa | emperor of Mali during the 14th century | 19 | |
208035136 | Griots | professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within Mali empire | 20 | |
208035137 | Timbuktu | port city of mali | 21 | |
208035138 | Zani | a gift from God :) | 22 | |
208035139 | East africa trading Post | trading post in east africa | 23 | |
208035140 | Ibn Batuta | Arabic traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records | 24 |
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