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58 Cards in this Set
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What is the the religious Muslim leader called?
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Caliph
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Who said the new Caliph should be in the Muhammad blood line?
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Shiites
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Who said the new Caliph should be a person who has Nobel beliefs?
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Sunnis
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Who was a secret society that could be Shiites or Sunnis Muslim and had mystial beliefs?
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Sufis
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Who was know as the Dervish?
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Sufis
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Frontier warriors whose mission was to wage holy war against the Christians were called what?
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Ghazis States
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Who was the most powerful state in the entire Islamic world and became the Ottoman empire which was the largest and most powerful in the world?
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The Ghazis
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What empire stretch from North Africa to Russia under one rule?
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The Ottoman Empire
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Who took Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul
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Mehmed the Conqueror
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What was the capitol of the Ottoman empire?
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Istanbul
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Who is the highest authority in the Islamic religion?
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The Ulama
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Who the scholars of law (Sharia) in Islam?
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The Ulma
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What is the law of the land for Muslims that comes from the Koran?
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Sharia
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What started a war in the Balkans during the 17th century that continues to this day.
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The mis-treatment of the non-Muslims. The legacy of this is: The war and the ethnic cleansing continues to this day
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• This was the height of the Ottoman empire under ____ ____ ____ that stretched from Africa to Russia.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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The leader/ruler of the Ottman empire was called what?
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Sultan
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Who started the tradition that a mans woman should never be seen by another man so they stayed in the harem?
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Suleiman the Magnificent
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What is a Eunuch?
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A eunuch was a castrated male
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What was the Eunuch's job?
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The eunuchs job was to watch over the women in the Harem
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Suleiman broke tradition and married who?
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Roxelena
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Suleiman was convinced to kill his first-born son Mustafa by whom?
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Roxelena
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Who was Mustafas Mother?
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Rose of Spring
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What was the downfall of Suleiman and the Ottoman empire?
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Roxelena who convinced him to kill his firstborn son and best friend.
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It is in Iran and Iraq and was the second most powerful empire in the Muslim world?
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Safavid Empire in Persia
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The Safavid Empire in Persia was Sunni or Shiites?
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Shiites
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The leader of the Safavid Empire in Persia was called?
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The Shah
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The Muslims that took over India were called?
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Mughals
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Who brought Islam to India?
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Mughals
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Who was the leader of the Mughals?
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Akbar the Great
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Who brought a tolerance for other religions to India
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Akbar the Great
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One of the seven wonders of the world came from the Mughals was called?
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The Taj Mahal
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Who built the Taj Mahal?
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Shah Jahan
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The Taj Mahal is a tomb for whom?
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Shah Jahan’s wife. • The Shah Jahan is also buried there
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The European settlement of the African Mediterranean Coast was called?
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The Informal Empire
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Why were the Europeans on the Mediterranen coast from 1200-1800?
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They were there to trade
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The history of Africa came from?
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The trade and the money that could be made there
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What became the mightiest and largest state of the great Sudanic states in west Africa?
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Songhay
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Who was the leader of the Songhay when it was at its peak in the 1500s?
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Askia Muhammad
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Who was very devoted to Islam and built numerous Mosques?
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Askia Muhammad
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Who said that Islam would co-exist with pagan rites?
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Askia Muhammad
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Who had problems converting people Islam?
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Askia Muhammad
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What was called the City States for the sons of the prince?
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Hausa
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What was the difference with Hause empire from other empires?
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It was made up of City States that were in a wall and all the farming was on the outside
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Slavery can be described as?
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The ownership, buying, and selling of human beings for the purpose of forced unpaid labor and sex
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The first Europeans to remove slaves from Africa were the?
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Portuguese
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Slaves were purchased with?
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Guns and gunpowder
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What enabled the slave traders in the 1400's to increase the amount of people that could be carried across the ocean?
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Ship design
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What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?
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In 1518 the Portuguese brought the first slaves across the Atlantic
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The term chattel means what?
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Reducing a human being to animal status
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What plantations were built in Africa and used slave labor to run them?
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Cloves
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In 1807, Britain wanted to end what?
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The did not want to end slavery but wanted to end the slave trade and stop taking people out of Africa
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Who wrote a letter to the King of Portugal that said: slavery was the downfall of Kongo?
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King Affonso II of Kongo
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The Dutch who settled in south Africa were called?
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The Boers
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Hunger for land was the theme for South Africa this started the?
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Dutch East Indian Company
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The biggest people the Boers displaced were the?
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Khoi Khoi
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The Dutch people who moved future inland in South Africa were the?
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Trek Boers
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The Trekboers ran into who on there trip inland?
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The Xhosa
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The Xhosa were herdsman and their cattle were wiped out due to?
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A lung disease that also spread to humans.
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