Ch. 28 AP World History Flashcards

129456068	Osman	most successful warrior and "founder" of Ottomans	0
129456069	Mehmed the Conquerer	Son of Murad II, launched an attack on Constantinople in 1453 at the young age of 21	1
129456070	Suleyman the magnificant	reign began 1520; led attacks on Europe, ruler who presided over the height of Ottoman dominance and cultural influence	2
129456071	Shah Ismail	Founder of Safavid Empire in 1501, ruled until 1524; made Twelver Shiism the official religion of the empire and imposed it upon his Sunni subjects; his followers became known as qizilbash;	3
129456072	Shah Abbas	Also known as Abbas the Great, took the throne in 1587 and helped create the Safavid culture	4
129456073	Babur	founder of Mughal dynasty in India; descended from Turkic warriors; first led invasion of India in 1526; died in 1530.	5
129456074	Akbar	sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus. (p. 536)	6
129456075	Aurangzeb	Mughal emperor in India and great-grandson of Akbar 'the Great', under whom the empire reached its greatest extent, only to collapse after his death	7
129456076	Ottomons	Followers of the great Muslim Dynasty in control from 1451-1556	8
129456077	Safavids	A shi'ite muslim dynasty that ruled in Persia (Iran and parts of Iraq) from the 16th-18th centuries that had a mixed culture of the persians, ottomans and arabs	9
129456078	Mughals	Mongols of the Indian Subcontinent. This name was used because they were a mix of the islamic mongols and the native hindus	10
129456079	Ghazi	A warrior for Islam	11
129456080	Janissaries	Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan	12
129456081	Twelver Shiism	a belief that there were 12 infallible imam (religious leaders) after Muhammad and the 12th went into hiding and would return to take power and spread the true religion	13
129456082	Qizilbash	term meaning red heads, or turksih tribes who callied wiht Sha Ismail in formation of Safavid Empire	14
129456083	Sikhism	the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam	15
129456084	Taj Mahal	beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife	16
129456085	Dhimmi	Literally "people of the book"; applied as inclusive term to Jews and Christians in Islamic territories; later extended to Zoroastrians and even Hindus & Buddhists	17