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Chapter 18
The Muslim World Expands
Term | Definition |
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Ghazi | A warrior of Islam |
Ottoman | |
Sultan | "Overlord" or "one with power"; Title for Ottoman rulers during the rise of the Ottoman Empire |
Tumur the Lame | |
Mehmed II | |
Suleyman the Lawgiver | |
Devshirme | In the Ottoman Empire, the policy of taking boys from conquered Christian people to be trained as Muslim soldiers |
Janissary | A member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire |
Safavid | A member of a Shi'a Muslim dynasty that built an empire in Persia in the 16th-18th centuries |
Isma'il | |
Shah | Hereditary monarch of Iran |
Shah Abbas | |
Esfahan | |
Mughal | One of the nomads who invaded the Indian subcontinent in the 16th century and established a powerful empire there |
Babur | |
Akbar | |
Sikh | A member of a nonviolent religious group whose beliefs blend elements of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism |
Shah Jahan | |
Taj Mahal | A beautiful tomb in Agra, India, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal |
Aurangzeb |