Chapter 19-AP World History Flashcards

The Earth and Its Peoples

5644101795	Ottoman Empire	Islamic state founded by Osman in north western Anatolia ca. 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the middle east, north Africa, the Caucasus, in Eastern Europe.	0
5644101796	Suleiman the Magnificent	1494-1566; The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire; also known as Suleiman Kanuni. He significantly expanded the empire into the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean.	1
5644101797	Janissaries	Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with fire arms and constituting the elite of the ottoman army from the fifteenth century until the corps was abolished in 1826.	2
5644101798	Tulip Period	1718-1730; last years of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul.	3
5644101799	Safavid Empire	Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.	4
5644101800	Hidden Imam	Last in a series of 12 descendent of Mohammad's son-in-law Ali, whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873, he is expected to return as the Messiah at the end of time.	5
5644101801	Mughal Empire	Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.	6
5644101802	Akbar	1542-1605; most illustrious Sultan of the Mughal Empire in India. He expanded the empire in pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus.	7
5644101803	Mansabs	In India, grants of land given in return for service by rulers of them Mughal Empire.	8
5644101804	Rajputs	Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from Northwest India. The Mughal Empire drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar married a Rajput princess.	9
5644101805	Achech 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.	10
5644101806	Oman	Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southwest region of the Arabian Peninsula. Oman succeeded Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean and eighteenth century.	11
5644101807	Swahili	Bantu language would Arabic loanwords spoken in coastal regions of East Africa.	12