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Chapter 8 lect. 1
Note Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Janissaries | In the Ottoman empire, an elite corps of troops personally loyal to the sultan; made up of Christian boys who were taken from their parents and converted to Islam. |
| Pax Mongolica | The "Mongol peace"; between about 1250 and about 1350 when Mongols ruled most of Eurasia. |
| Safavid | The dynast of Shi'i Muslims that ruled persian from the 1500s to the 1700s. |
| Seljuks | Turkish converts to Islam who seized the Baghdad government from the Abbasids. |
| Umayyad dynasty | The caliphs resident in Damascus from 661 to 750 c.e. |
| Yuan dynasty | Official term for the Mongol dynasty that ruled China between 1279D 1368. |