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W His 2
Question | Answer |
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ghazi | A warrior for Islam |
Ottoman | Followers of the most successful Islamic warrior Othman |
sultan | 'Overlord' or 'One with power', title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire |
Timur the Lame | A warrior & conqueror from Samarkand in Central Asia who burned the city of Baghdad to the ground and stopped the expansion of the Ottoman Empire |
Mehmed II | Conquered the city of Constantinople, brought many nationalities, and religions, rebuilt the city and named it Istanbul |
Suleyman the Lawgiver | |
devshirme | In the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian peoples to be trained as Muslim soldiers |
janissary | Member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire |
Safavid | Member of a Shi's Muslim dynasty that built empires in Persia in the 16th-18th centuries |
Isma'il | |
shah | Hereditary monarch of Iran |
Shah Abbas | |
Esfahan | |
Mughal | |
Babur | |
Akbar | |
Sikh | Member of a nonviolent religious group whose beliefs blend elements of Buddhism, Hinduism and Sufism |
Shah Jahan | |
Taj Mahal | Beautiful tomb in Agra, India, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal |
Aurangzeb | |
emir | Islamic military chief commander |