AP World Terms
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World History [1]
Sheet1 Abbasid Caliphate Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258. (p. 234) absolution The theory popular in France and other early modern European monarchies that royal power should be free of constitutional checks. (p. 452) Acheh Sultanate Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, it declined after the Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal in 1641. (p. 541) acllas Women selected by Inca authorities to serve in religious centers as weavers and ritual participants. (p. 318)