Vocabulary Chapter 7 and 8 Flashcards

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