Umayyads
Title given to an Umayyad leader.
What is a caliph?
Location of the Mughal Empire
What is India?
Type of weapons used by Ottoman Empire
What are gunpowder weapons?
Location of the Safavid Empire
What is Persia?
Word that means the Abbasids allowed other groups to practice their religion
What is tolerance?
Capital of the Umayyad Empire.
What is Damascus?
Religious group of the Mughals
What is Sunni?
Location of the Ottoman Empire
What is Turkey?
Religious group of the Safavids
What is Shia?
The capital city of the early Abbasid Empire
What is Baghdad?
Sunni and Shia
What are the two types groups of Muslims called?
Famous tomb located in India - it is considered a major Mughal achievement
What is the Taj Mahal?
Years the Ottomans ruled
What is 1200-1600 CE?
Years the Safavids were in power
What is 1450-1750?
Years the Abbasids were in power
What is 750-1258 CE?
Official religion of the Umayyad Empire
What is Arabic?
Famous Muslim leader who practiced religious tolerance
Who was Akbar?
The Ottomans captured this important capital city and renamed it Istanbul.
What is Constantinople?
Language of the Safavid Empire
What is Persian?
The time when the Abbasids made Baghdad a center for learning (it lasted from 800s to 1200s CE)
What is the Golden Age of Islam?
Years the Umayyads ruled
What is 661-750 CE?
Non-Muslim religious group that lived in India with the Mughals
Who are Sikhs?
This Muslim empire was often at war with the Ottomans
What was the Safavid Empire?
Most important Safavid ruler
Who was Ismail?
This group sacked the Abbasid capital of Baghdad in 1258 - causing the end of the empire
Who were the Mongols?