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Chapter 27 Flashcards

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Shah Jahan

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The emperor of Mughal India (another Islamic empire of early modern times)

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Peacock Throne

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Shah Jahan’s ornate throne, made with ten million rupees’ worth of jewels

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Taj Mahal

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Built over the course of 18 years as a tomb for Shah Jahan’s wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died in childbirth. Is a monument to the departed empress and to Shah Jahan’s islamic faith. (Built to symbolize the day when Allah would cause the dead to rise/undergo judgement before his heavenly throne)

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Ottoman Empire

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A dynastic Muslim state centered in modern-day Turkey. It was the longest lived of the Muslim empires, not disbanding until the early 20th century.

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Safavid dynasty

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Ruled a Muslim empire in early 16th century in Persia that never expanded its heartland in present-day Iran, but whose Shiite rulers challenged the Sunni Ottomans for dominance in SW Asia. prospered from trade because it connected trade routes to China, India, Russia, and Mediterranean.

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Osman Gazi

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Founded the Ottoman empire in 1289. Osman and his followers wanted to become Ghazi: Muslim religious warriors

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bey

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chief

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Bursa

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Anatolian city captured by the Ottomans who made it the capital of their principality. Developed into a commercial and intellectual center

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Edirne (Adrianople)

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Became a 2nd Ottoman capital and served as a base for expansion into the Balkans

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Devshirme

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An institution that required the Christian population in the Balkans to contribute young boys to become slaves for the Sultan of the Ottoman empire.

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Janissaries

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Slave boys from the Balkans who became Ottoman soldiers. Gained a reputation of loyalty to the Sultan.

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Mehmed the Conqueror

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Ottoman Sultan who captured Constantinople in 1453 and expanded the empire
Ruler of 2 lands (Asia and Europe) and 2 seas (Mediterranean and Black Seas)

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Constantinople

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Became new Ottoman capital. Allowed for further expansion (later Istanbul)

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Selim the Grim

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Ottoman Sultan that expanded empire into Syria and Egypt

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Suleyman the Magnificent

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Sultan that promoted Ottoman expansion and made them a major naval power

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Khayr al-Din Barbarossa Pasha

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A Turkish corsair that placed his pirate fleet under the Ottoman’s flag and became Suleyman’s leading admiral.

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Ismail

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A 14-year old boy who left Gilan, entered Tabriz at the head of an army, and claimed the Persian Imperial Title of Shah. Made religion of his realm Twelver Shiism.

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Safi al-Din

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Leader of a Sufi religious order in NW Persia.

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Safavids

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The family of Shah Ismail who claimed to be descendants of Safi al-Din.

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Twelver Shiism

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The religious belief that there were 12 infallible imams (religious leaders) after Muhammad.

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Qizilbash

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“Red heads” refers to the Turkish followers of Ismail’s father who wore a red hat with 12 pleats in memory of the 12 Shiite imams.

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Battle of Chaldiran

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Selm the Grimm’s Janissaries invaded the Shiite Safavid’s territory and waged a critical battle that was disastrous for Safavids. The Ottomans had the upper hand because they were armed whereas the Safavids were not.

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Tabriz

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Safavid capital that was temporarily occupied by the Ottomans after the Battle of Chaldiran.

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Shah Abbas the Great

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Safavid ruler who moved the capital to Isfahan and encouraged foreign trade.

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Zahir al-Din Muhammad

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aka Babur “the tiger”. He founded the Mughal dynasty in India.

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Akbar

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Babur’s grandson who ruled Mughal empire and laid the foundations for future Mughal expansion in southern India.

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Adham Khan

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A powerful figure/commander of Mughal army who Akbar threw out a window after an argument.

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Divine Faith

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Syncretic religion supported by Akbar that saw the emperor is the ruler of all.

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Avrangzeb

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Mughal emperor who waged a relentless campaign to expand Mughal territory into S. India

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Kanun

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“Laws” issued by Suleyman.

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Steppe Traditions

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Laws created by Islamic emperors like Mehmed’s law that a ruler could legally kill off all his brothers.

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Chinggis Khan

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Ruler who revered his mother and first wife.

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Hurrem Sultana

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A Ukranian concubine (aka Roxelana) who Suleyman elevated to status of legal wife.

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Mahd-e Olya

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The wife of a Shah in Safavid Persia who was the de facto ruler.

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Emperor Jahangir

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Let his wife, Nur Janan rule Mughal empire.

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Tobacco

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English merchants introduced tobacco and it spread throughout Ottoman empire along with coffee.

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Sultan Murad IV

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Tried to outlaw coffee and tobacco in the Ottoman empire but failed.

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Aleppo

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City in Syria that became an emporium for foreign merchants and spice trade. Served as the headquarters for the English Levant Company.

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Portuguese Goa

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Center of a Christian mission in India

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Sikhs

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Combined elements of Hinduism and Islam to make a syncretic religion.

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Dhimmi

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“protect people” A policy extended to people conquered by Islamic empires who paid a special tax called “Jizya”

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Millet

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autonomous religious communities in Ottoman empire

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Sinan Pasha

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Genius architect who built for Suleyman in Istanbul. Built Suleymaniye by blending Byzantine and Islamic architectural monuments

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Ali Qapu

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The palace on the square in Isfahan with large balcony

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Fatehpur Sikri

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city planned and build by Akbar, served as his capital

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Shaykh Salim Chishti

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Akbar’s Sufi guru

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Selim the Sot and Ibrahim the Crazy

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Suleyman’s successors who taxed and spent in such excess that government officials murdered him (Ibrahim)

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Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi

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A Muslim Conservative Cleric who rebuked Akbar for his policy of religious tolerance

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William Bedwell

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English scholar who described Arabic as the only important language from Morocco to China

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Piri Reis

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Ottoman admiral and cartographer who produced large scale maps and wrote the Book of Seafaring

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Printing Press

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Jewish refugees from Spain introduced the printing press to Anatolia in the 15th century, and it allowed for people to cheaply produce books

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Ahmadi

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Poet who said Ghazi were the swords of Allah

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Ghazi

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Muslim religious warriors

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Habsburg Empire

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Suleyman fought the Habsburg Empire in Europe and eventually won Vienna.

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Battle of the Mohác

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Suleyman killed the king of Hungary in the Battle of the Mohác

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Sufism

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A mystical belief/practice to recover the intimacy of God and human souls.

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Ibrahim Pechevi

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An Ottoman historian who said that tobacco was used as medicine.

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Isfahan

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A commercial center and capital for the Safavids.

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Gujarat

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A province that Akbar took over in a campaign that enabled him to head off both Portuguese attacks and Ottoman intervention there.

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Muslim Conservative Clerics

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Objected any policies against Islam (ie. forced observatory destruction and closed the printing press company)

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