AP World History Ch 7 Flashcards
ap world history, ch 7, abbasid decline, islam
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| 36179491 | al mahdi | third abbasid caliph | 0 | |
| 36179492 | thousand and one nights | folk tales from islamic empire | 1 | |
| 36179493 | civil violence | drained treasury and alienated people of abbasids | 2 | |
| 36179494 | spiraling taxation and outright pillaging | destruction of villages in richest area of empire | 3 | |
| 36179495 | bandit gangs | peasants were vagabonds | 4 | |
| 36179496 | shi'i sects | religious groups | 5 | |
| 36179497 | harem and veil | twin emblems of women's subjugation to men | 6 | |
| 36179498 | buyids | invaded heartlands of abbasid empire and captured baghdad | 7 | |
| 36179499 | seljuk turks | group of nomadic invaders | 8 | |
| 36179500 | crusades | eight wars christians started to free holy land from muslims | 9 | |
| 36179501 | saladin | reconquered most of crusader outposts from islam | 10 | |
| 36179502 | rubaiyat | omar khayyam's persian literature | 11 | |
| 36179503 | shah-nama | (books of kings) lengthy poem by firdawsi | 12 | |
| 36179504 | ulama | orthodox religious scholars | 13 | |
| 36179505 | alghazali | islamic theologian who struggled to fuse greek and quranic traditions | 14 | |
| 36179506 | sufis | wandering mystics who sought a person union with allah | 15 | |
| 36179507 | mongols | central asian nomadic people | 16 | |
| 36179508 | chinggis khan | war commander of mongols | 17 | |
| 36179509 | egalitarian | all believers equal in eyes of god | 18 | |
| 36179510 | muhammad ibn qasim | led more than 10000 horse and camel mounted warriors into sind to avenge assault on arab shipping | 19 | |
| 36179511 | arabian nights | based on indian stories | 20 | |
| 36179512 | mahmud of ghazni | led a series of expeditions that started nearly two centuries of muslim raiding and conquest in northern india | 21 | |
| 36179513 | bengal | largest muslim community in subcontinent | 22 | |
| 36179514 | al-biruni | complained about indian disdain for muslims | 23 | |
| 36179515 | sati | burning of widows on the same funeral pyres as their deceased husband | 24 | |
| 36179516 | kabir | remarkable mystic who wrote religious poetry and songs of worship | 25 | |
| 36179517 | shiva | hindu god of destruction and reproduction | 26 | |
| 36179518 | vishnu | hindu god of sacrifice | 27 | |
| 36179519 | sufis | group who spread islam in southeast asia and varied widely in personality and approach | 28 |