AP World History Flashcards
Vocab chapter 7
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| 220112273 | al-Mahdi | Third Abbasid caliph (775-786); failed to reconcile Shi'i moderates to his dynasty and to resolve the succession problem. | 0 | |
| 220112274 | Harun al-Rahshid | Most famous of the Abbasid caliphs (786-809); renowned for sumptuous and costly living recounted in The Thousand and One Nights;. | 1 | |
| 220112275 | Buyids | Persian invaders of the tenth century; captured Baghdad; and as sultans through Abbasid figureheads. | 2 | |
| 220112276 | Seljuk Turks | Nomadic invaders from central Asia; staunch Sunnis; ruled from the 11th century in the name of the Abbasids. | 3 | |
| 220112277 | Crusades | Invasions of western Christians into Muslim lands, especially Palestine; captured Jerusalem and established Christian kingdoms enduring until 1291. | 4 | |
| 220112278 | Saladin | Twelfth century Muslim ruler; reconquered most of the Crusader kingdoms. | 5 | |
| 220112279 | Ibn Khaldun | Great | 6 | | |
| 220112280 | Sa'di | A great poet of the Abbasid era. | 7 | |
| 220112281 | al-Biruni | Eleventh century scientist; calculated the specific weight of major minerals. | 8 | |
| 220112282 | al-Ghazali | Brilliant Islamic theologian; attempted to fuse Greek and Quranic traditions. | 9 | |
| 220112283 | Sufis | Islamic mystics; spread Islam to many Afro-Asian regions. | 10 | |
| 220112284 | Mongols | Central Asian nomadic peoples; captured Baghdad in 1258 and killed the last Abbasid caliph. | 11 | |
| 220112285 | Muhammad ibn Qasim | Arab general who conquered Sind; and made it part of the Umayyad Empire. | 12 | |
| 220112286 | Arabic numerals | Indian numerical notation brought by the Arabs to the West. | 13 | |
| 220112287 | Harsha | Seventh century north Indian ruler; built a large state that declined after his death in 646. | 14 | |
| 220112288 | Muhammad of Ghur | Persian ruler of a small kingdom in Afghanistan; invaded northern India during the 11th century. | 15 | |
| 220112289 | Sati | Hindu ritual for burning widows with their deceased husbands. | 16 | |
| 220112290 | Mir Bai | low-caste woman poet and song writer in bhaktic cults | 17 | |
| 220112291 | Shrivijaya | Trading empire based on the Malacca straights; its Buddhist government resisted Muslim missionaries; when it fell southeastern Asia was opened to Islam. | 18 | |
| 220112292 | Demak | Most powerful of the trading states on the north Java coast; converted to Islam and served as a dissemination point to other regions. | 19 |