Chapter 19 Vocabulary | AP World History Flashcards

8593080955	Ottoman Empire	Islamic state founded by Osman in northwestern Anatolia around 1300. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was based at Istanbul	0
8593080956	Suleiman the Magnificent	The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire; also known as Suleiman Kanuni. "the Lawgiver," he significantly expanded the empire in the balkans and eastern Mediterranean	1
8593081318	Janissary	Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from 15th century until crops was abolished in 1826	2
8593081770	Devshirme	A new system imposed a levy of male children on Christian villages in the Balkans and occasionally elsewhere. Selected children were please with Turkish families for language learning and then sent to Istanbul for education.	3
8593081771	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
8593082264	Safavid Empire	Iranian Kingdom (1502-1722) established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran a Shi'ite state.	5
8593082265	Ismail	The ultimate victor in a complicated struggle for power among Turkish chieftains east of the Ottoman lands. A boy of Kurdish, Iranian, and Greek ancestry.	6
8593082610	Shi'ite Islam	Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a. descendant of Muhammad;s son-in-law .	7
8593082611	Hidden Imam	Last in a series of twelve descendants of Ali, whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community in occlusion since roughly 873, expected to return as a messiah at the end of time.	8
8593082612	Istanbul	Built on seven hills beside the narrow Golden Horn inlet, Istanbul boasted a skyline punctuated by the gray stone domes and thin gold minarets.	9
8593082944	Isfahan	Became Iran's capital by decree of Shah Abbas I in 1598.	10
8593082945	Shah Abas I	The fifth and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty (r. 1587-1629). Abbas moved to royal capital to Isfahan in 1598.	11
8593083269	Mughal Empire	Muslim state (1526-1858) exercising dominion over most over of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries before political fragmentation caused decline.	12
8593083270	Akbar	Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). He expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus.	13
8593083832	Mansabs	In India, grants of land given in return for service by rulers of the Mughal Empire.	14
8593083833	Rajputs	Members of a mainly Hindu warrior caste from Northwest India. The Mughal emperors drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar married a Rajput princesss.	15
8593083834	Sikhism	Meaning a "disciple" or a "learner", is a religion that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent about the end of the 15th century.	16
8593084195	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.	17
8593084196	Oman	Arab state based in Musqat, the main port in the southeast region of the Arabian peninsula; Oman succeeded Portugal as a power in the western Indian Ocean in the eighteenth century	18
8593084197	Swahili	Bantu language with Arabic loanwords spoken in costal regions of East Africa.	19
8593085798	Batavia	For established around 1619 as headquarters of Dutch East India company operations in Indonesia; today the city of Indonesia	20