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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |