Chapter 19 Vocab Flashcards

48000916	Ottoman Empire	Islamic state founded by Osman in northwest Anatolia. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, it was based at Istanbul	0
48000917	Suleiman the Magnificent	The most illustrious of sultan of the Ottoman Empire; also known as "The Lawgiver."	1
48000918	Janissaries	Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with fire arms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the 15th century until abolished	2
48000919	Devshirme	"Selection" in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries	3
48000920	Tulip Period	Last years of the reign of the Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul	4
48000921	Safavid Empire	Iranian kingdom established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state	5
48000922	Shi'ite Islam	Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali.	6
48000923	Hidden Imam	Last in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community	7
48000924	Shah Abbas I	The fifth and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran	8
48000925	Mughal Empire	Muslim state exercising dominion over most of India in the 16th and 17th century	9
48000926	Akbar	Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus	10
48000927	Rajputs	Members of mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste and Akbar married a Rajput Princess	11
48000928	Sikhism	Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak in the Punjab region of northwest India. After the Mughal emperors ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675, Sikh warriors mounted armed resistance to Mughal rule	12
48000929	Acheh Sultanate	Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main centers of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal	13
48000930	Oman	Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southwest region of the Arabian peninsula. Succeed Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean in the 18th century	14
48000931	Swahili	Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa	15
48000932	Batavia	Fort established as headquarters of Dutch East India Company operations in Indonesia; today the city of Jakarta	16