Era 1: Dar Al Islam

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Across
  1. 2. Situation where authority is weak or absent, allowing new powers to rise
  2. 6. Safeguarding and maintaining earlier works of knowledge, especially Greek texts
  3. 8. Islamic mystic who seeks a personal connection with God
  4. 10. Muslim kingdom in India that ruled much of the subcontinent from 1206 to 1526
  5. 12. Blending of cultural or religious traditions
  6. 14. Center of learning in Baghdad where scholars preserved and translated texts
  7. 16. Turkic dynasty that ruled parts of the Middle East and challenged the Byzantines
  8. 17. Effort in the Islamic world to translate texts into Arabic
Down
  1. 1. Spread of ideas, technologies, and beliefs across regions
  2. 3. Series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land
  3. 4. Leader of the Islamic community seen as Muhammad’s successor
  4. 5. Muslim ruler or king
  5. 7. Important city in India that became a political and cultural center
  6. 9. Sharing and spread of knowledge between cultures
  7. 11. Dynasty that ruled the Islamic caliphate from 750 to 1258
  8. 13. Slave soldiers who rose to political and military power in the Islamic world
  9. 15. Nomadic groups from Central Asia who converted to Islam and shaped empires