Chapters 7-9 AP World Terms Flashcards
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| 212582332 | Harun al-Rashid | most famous abbasid caliph; higher living in The Thousand and One Nights | 0 | |
| 212582333 | Buyids | Persian invaders; captured baghdad; influenced Abbasid rulers | 1 | |
| 212582334 | Crusades | Invasions of Christians into Muslim lands, Palestine; captured Jerusalem in First Crusade | 2 | |
| 212582335 | Saladin | Muslim ruler; reconquered crusader kingdoms; famous in Third Crusade with Richard the Lionhearted of England | 3 | |
| 212582336 | Ibn Khaldun | Muslim historian; author of The Mugaddimah; sought to uncover persisting patters in the Muslim dynastic history | 4 | |
| 212582337 | Rubaiyat | Epic poem of Omar Khayyam; seeks to find meaning in life | 5 | |
| 212582338 | al-Razi | Classified all matter: animal, vegetable, mineral | 6 | |
| 212582339 | al-Biruni | scientist; calculated specific weight of major minerals | 7 | |
| 212582340 | Ulama | Islamic religious scholars; restricted theology | 8 | |
| 212582341 | al-Ghazali | Isalmic theologian; tried to fuse Greek and Qur'anic traditions | 9 | |
| 212582342 | Sufis | Islamic mystics; spread Islam to Afro-Asian regions; whirling dervishes danced for god | 10 | |
| 212582343 | Mongols | Central Asian nomads; captured baghdad; killed last Abbasid caliph | 11 | |
| 212582344 | Muhammad ibn Qasim | Arab general that conquered Sind and made it part of Umayyad Empire | 12 | |
| 212582345 | Arabic numerals | Indian numbers brought by Arabs to the West | 13 | |
| 212582346 | Harsha | north Indian ruler; built large state that declined after his death | 14 | |
| 212582347 | Bhaktic cults | Hindu religious groups; stressed importance of emotional bonds between devotees and gods: Shiva, Vinshu, Kali | 15 | |
| 212582348 | Mira Bai | Low-caste woman poet in bhaktic cults of Hinduism | 16 | |
| 212582349 | Shrivijaya | Trading empire on the Malacca Strait; Buddhist government; its fall meant Islam opened to SE Asia | 17 | |
| 212582350 | Malacca | Trading city in Malaya; not most powerful | 18 | |
| 212582351 | Demak | Most powerful trading state; converted to Islam; dissemination point to other regions | 19 | |
| 212582352 | Latten sails | triangular sails attached to masts by long booms that extend diagonally across the fore and aft portions of the ship | 20 | |
| 212582353 | Sultan | "victorious"; describes Muslim rulers | 21 | |
| 212582354 | Holy Land | present day Israel; includes Jerusalem, the holy city to Christianity, Islam, and Judaism | 22 | |
| 212582355 | Chinggis Khan | Born after the death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of Mongol tribes; conquest of north China to Abbasid; died after the conquest of most of the Islamic world | 23 | |
| 212582356 | Hulegu | Ruler of the Ilkhan khanate; grandson of Chinggis Khan; captured and destruction of Baghdad | 24 | |
| 212582357 | Mamluks | Turkic slave warriors who ruled Egypt and defeated the Mongols that prevented them entering northern Africa | 25 | |
| 212582358 | Rajas | Hindu kings | 26 | |
| 212582359 | Sultans of Delhi | Islamic imperial houses of India; "princes of the heartland" | 27 |