SIO - Social Interactions & Organizations
GOV - Governance
CDI - Cultural Developments & Interactions
ENV & TEC - Humans and the Environment & Technology
100

This syncretic religion formed due to interactions between Muslims and Hindus.

Sufism

100

When the Abbasid Caliphate collapsed, these are the 3 smaller empires/kingdoms (names, regions and sects) that took its place.

Seljuk Empire (Iran & Turkey; Shi'a)

Mamluk Sultanate (Egypt; Sunni)

Delhi Sultanate (India; Sunni)

100

These three religions all trace their historical roots to the Middle East.

Judaism

Christianity

Islam

100

These technologies helped Islamic traders dominate the Indian Ocean trade network. (Name 2)

Dhow

Lateen Sail

Astrolabe

200

This was a nationalist movement in the Ottoman empire to unify its people and save it from collapse.

Ottomanism

200

This Sunni empire reigned over the Mediterranean side of the Middle East following the Mongol conquest of the Seljuk empire.

Ottoman Empire

200

Located in Baghdad, Iraq, this was one of the world's largest libraries and served as a storehouse for advanced Islamic knowledge in such fields as mathematics, literature and medicine.

House of Wisdom

200

This traveller crossed the Sahara desert and traversed the Indian Ocean in order to see this - the "house of Islam".

Ibn Battuta

Dar al-Islam

300

As the Ottoman empire collapsed this nationalist movement in Turkey represented a growing desire to break away from the empire and focus on the project of a smaller more manageable nation.

Turkification

300

This Shi'a gunpowder empire reigned over much of Iran and Afghanistan.

Safavid Empire

300

Identify the cultural distinction behind the centuries of conflicts between the Safavids & Ottomans/Mughals.

Sunni/Shi'a Split

400

This group was forcibly removed from their homes in Turkey in order to move them to a new location, many were shot or starved along the way.

Armenian Christians

400

These Ottoman bureaucrats were served as tax farmers over conquered lands.

Devshirme System

400

The holocaust prompted many Jews with this nationalist view to migrate to this region which had been carved out as a homeland for Jews by this British declaration after WWII.

Zionism

Palestine

Balfour Declaration

500

This Revolution in Iran was built around this common communist ideal.

White Revolution

Land Reform

500

This is the effect of a wave of nationalism across Balkan states in order to throw off Ottoman control.

Balkanism

500

Sukarno (Indonesia) helped to launch this movement to unify those who chose to stay neutral during the Cold War era.

Non-Aligned Movement

600

This Albanian leader conquered the Mamluks for the this Islamic empire, and helped to spur an age of industrialization in Egypt.

Muhammad Ali

Ottomans

600

This organization carried out this famous act in New York City (and less famously Virginia) in 2001 as a message protesting American international interventionism.

Al-Qaeda

9/11

700

The mandate system after WWI saw Britain and France carve up this empire after its fall.

Ottomans

700

Facebook was a method used for this time period which helped organize Islamic protesters to make political change in their respective countries.

Arab Spring

800

This famous leader, formed this political opposition to British rule in India.

Mohandas Gandhi

Indian National Congress

900

Borders for this new nation were rejected by Palestinian leaders following this plan to redraw the map was approved by the UN.

Israel

Partition of Palestine

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