Ch. 28 Flashcards

52993784	Osman	Chief of a seminomadic Turks who migrated to northwestern Anatolia in the 13th century and founder of the Ottoman empire	0
52993785	Mehmed the Conqueror	(reigned 1451-1481) Captured Constantinople in 1453	1
52993786	Suleyman the Magnificent	(reigned 1520-1566) the Ottoman empire was at its high during his reign, 1534 captured Bagdad and Tigris and Euphrates, and conqured many more	2
52993787	Shah Ismail	(reigned 1501-1524 at a young age) in the next 10 years he took control of the Iranean platue and launched expectations to Caucasus, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, and central Asia	3
52993788	Shah Abbas	(reigned 1588-1629) fully revitalized the Safavid Empire, with the new army he lad the Safavids to many victories	4
52993789	Babur	(1523-1530) found the Mughal dynasty in India before his death	5
52993790	Akbar	(reigned 1556-1606) grandson of Babur and the architect of the Mughal dynasty	6
52993791	Aurangzeb	(reigned 1659-1707) reached the greatest extent with Aurangzeb and pushed the Mughal dynasty deep into southern India	7
52993792	Ottomans	followers of Osman I, Turkish Muslims; treated people of conquered territories well	8
52993793	Safavids	Founder Shah Ismail who conquered Tabriz and forced the Twelver Shiism as the religion into his Sunni population, He traced his ancestry to Safi al-Din, Battle of Chaldiran 1514 lost to the Ottomans who injured the Safavid state, Peak under Shah Abbas r1588-1629 the Great revitalized the empire brought NW Iran, the Caucauses and Mesopotamia under Safivid Rule	9
52993794	Mughals	Mongols of the Indian Subcontinent. This name was used because they were a mix of the islamic mongols and the native hindus	10
52993795	Ghazi	Warrior for Islam	11
52993796	Janissaries	Christian boys taken from families, converted to Islam, and then rigorously trained to serve the sultan	12
52993797	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
52993798	Qizilbash	term meaning red heads, or turksih tribes who callied wiht Sha Ismail in formation of Safavid Empire	14
52993799	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
52993800	Taj Mahal	beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife	16