SW Asia and Indian Ocean 1500-1750 CE

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  1. 7. Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son in law Ali. State religion of Iran
  2. 9. In India, grants of land given in return for service by rulers of the Mughal Empire.
  3. 10. Iranian kingdom (1502-1722) that established a Shi'ite state.
  4. 11. The most illustrious sultan of the Ottoman Empire that expanded in the Balkans and E. Mediterranean
  5. 13. Last in a series of twelve descendants of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, whom Shi'ites consider divinely appointed leaders of the Muslim community. In occlusion since ca. 873, he is expected to return as a messiah at the end of time
  6. 14. Most illustrious sultan of the Mughal Empire in India (r. 1556-1605). Expanded the empire and pursued a policy of conciliation with Hindus.
  7. 16. Members of mainly Hindu warrior caste from northwest India. The Mughal emperor drew most of their Hindu officials from this caste, and Akbar married a member as his princess.
  8. 18. Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra. Main center of Islamic expansion in Southeast Asia in the early seventeenth century, it declined after Dutch seized Malacca from Portugal in 1641.Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of NW India. After the Mughal emperor ordered the beheading of the ninth guru in 1675, they mounted an armed resistance.Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of NW India. In 1675, they mounted an armed resistance against Mughal rule
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  1. 1. Islamic state founded by Osman in NW Anatolia ca. 1300. After the Byzantine Empire, it was based at Istanbul from 1453 to 1922. It encompassed lands in the Middle East, N. Africa, the Caucasus, and E. Europe.
  2. 2. Bantu language of the coast, broadened by the absorption of Arabic, Persian, and Portuguese loanwords, spoken throughout the region.
  3. 3. Period during the last years of the reign of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, during which European styles and attitudes became briefly popular in Istanbul.
  4. 4. Fifth and most renowned ruler of the Safavid dynasty in Iran (r. 1587-1629). Moved the royal capital to Isfahan in 1598.
  5. 5. "Selection" in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve in the military
  6. 6. Infantry, originally of slave origin, armed with firearms and constituting the elite of the Ottoman army from the 15th century until the corps was abolished in 1826.
  7. 8. Arab state based in SW region of the Arabian Peninsula. Succeeded Portugal as power in the western Indian Ocean in the 18th century.
  8. 12. fort established ca. 1619 as headquarters of Dutch East India Company operations in Indonesia; today the city of Jakarta.
  9. 15. Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  10. 17. Indian religion founded by the guru Nanak (1469-1539) in the Punjab region of NW India. In 1675, they mounted an armed resistance against Mughal rule