In ____ the Qajar Dynasty was formed.
What is 1779?
Islam arrived in Iran between _________________.
What is 600 and 700 CE.
What is army?
How many decades did the shah who developed concessions reign?
What is 5 decades?
Demands of the protestors.
What is a constitution and parliament ?
_____ Dynasty took place before the Qajar Dynasty.
What is the Safavid Dynasty?
What religion did Islam share many ideas with ?
What is Zoroastrianism
Peasants and poorer classes had ______ protection from exploitation.
What is none/zero?
What is economy?
The first protests against the Shah broke open.
What is 1905?
Member of the clergy who learned and was able to render independent judgement about religion and law.
What is a mujtahid?
When did the prophet Mohammad die?
What is 632 CE?
______ went to providing a life of luxury for the shah.
What is taxes?
Britain and _________ fight over these concessions slowed the development of infrastructure that Iran needed to modernize its economy.
What is Russia's?
______ from Iran helped fuel the British fleets in WWI.
What is oil?
______ of the population during Qajar Iran was made up of nomadic tribes.
What is 1/3?
What were the two names of the branches of Islam?
What is Shi'i and Sunni?
Iran's neighboring rival in 1783.
What is Ottomans?
Who is Nasir al-Din Shah?
Pro-constitution tribesmen and militias entered Tehran, deposed the shah, and replaced him with his nine-year-old son in.
What is 1909?
_______ a chieftain of the Qajar tribe consolidated power and established the Qajar Dynasty.
Who is Agha Mohammad Khan?
By what century had most Iranians adopted Islam
Iran was stuck in a system of patronage, where power and positions could be purchased from the _____.
What is the shah?
What two outside countries were most active in Iran's economy?
The declared official religion of Iran.
What is Twelver Shi'ism?