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10 Cards in this Set
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Ottomans
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Turkic empire established in Asia minor and eventually extended throughout Middle East.
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Mehmed II
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responsible for conquest of Constantinople
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Janissaries
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Ottoman infantry divisions tht dominated Ottoman armies.
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Vizier
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Ottoman equivalent of the Abbasid wazire
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Safavid dynasty
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Origanally a Turkic nomadic group
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Sail al-Din
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began campaign to purify Islam
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Isma'il
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Suficommander who conquredcityof Tabiz; first Safived to be proclamed shahor emperor
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Chaldiran
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site of battlebetween ottoman and safived empires
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Abbas I
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extended Safived domainto thegreatest extent
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Imams
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rulers who could trace decendents from Ali
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