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Unit 2
the postclassical period review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Shiite | supporters of Ali |
| Sunni | supporters(good) of Ali |
| Khariite | mad at Ali, bad supporters |
| Abu Bakr | first caliph, muhammad's cousin and son in law |
| ali | 4th caliph and is assassinated for arbritration |
| Mecca | important trading city, holy shrine, cite of ka'ba |
| hagia sophia | newe church constructed in constantinople during regin of Justinian |
| saladin | muslim leader in the last decades of the 12th century, recoonqured most of the crusader outposts for islam |
| Songhay | sucessor state state to mali , dominated middle reachers of niger-valley |
| tartars | mongols, captured russian cities and destroyed kievan state in 1236 |
| Qur'an | holy book of Islam |
| shoguns | japanese leadr or ruler |
| minamoto | defeated the rival taira family in the gempei wars and established military gov. |
| middle ages | refers to the time period between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the renaissance |
| sufism | mystic version of islam |
| Nubia and Ethiopia | christian cities surrounded by islam |
| tenochitilan | became center of aztec power |
| Yangdi | son of wendi, murdered his dad to reach the throne. |
| Changan | capital of Tang Dynasty, large population |
| Empress wu | Tang ruler in china, supported buddhist establishment |
| Wuzong | chinese emperor of tang dynasty who openly persecuted buddhism by destroying monastaries |