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Mr. Sakolic 2007 WL summer schl, Chs. 10-13 _hard vocab and names_Princeton Hall

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Seljuks   central Asian invaders who adopted Islam and threatened the Byzantine Empire  
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Sufi   a Muslim faction that sought to communion with God through meditation and fasting  
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sultan   name given to a Seljuk leader  
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Sharia   a rule that the Quran can be applied to all legal situations.  
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Stefan Dusan   Serbian king  
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Golden Bull of 1222   This limited royal power in Hungary  
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Jadwiga   Poland's greatest age came after she married  
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liberum veto   this made it hard for the Polish government to take action.  
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boyar   Ivan the Great tried to limit the power of the ____  
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Michael Romanov   The selection of___ brought the Time of Troubles to an end  
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Vladimir   ___organized mass baptisms in Kiev  
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Abbas   Shah_____revived the glory of ancient Persia  
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janizaries   The ___ formed the elite branch of the Ottoman army  
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millet   religious communities non-Muslims were organized into in the Ottoman empire  
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Sinan   designed hundreds of mosques and palaces  
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Babur   Invader who established the Mughal dynasty  
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Nur Jahan   Wife of Jahangir who ruled Nughal India for her husband  
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Sikhism   Religion_ by Nanak_ Muslim+Hindu  
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Taj Mahal   tomb built by Shah Jahan for his wife  
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Urdu   language: Persian + Hindi  
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Muhammad al-Razi   Physician, measles and smallpox  
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Averroes   put knowledge to the test of reason  
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Avicenna   wrote an encyclopedia on disease  
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Omar Khayyam   Scholar, astronomer, and poet  
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Swahili   language_ E. African + Muslim  
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Ezana   king of Axum, converted to Christianity  
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Lalibela   Ethiopian king who built many churches  
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Geez   language= Hebrew + Axum  
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Sonni Ali   The soldier king who rejected Islam  
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Amina   woman ruler of Zaria who expanded its border to the Niger River  
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Mansa Musa   emperor of Mali, converted to Islam and did hajj  
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Askia Muhammad   __ made Gao a leading center of learning  
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Sundiato   founded the Mali empire  
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Bantu   the root language of W. Africa  
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Meroe   commanded wide trade routes and was rich in iron ore  
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