Poltical
An empire that challenged the Abbasid Empire’s authority.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Regions where Islam is practiced and has a strong influence on society.
What is Dar al-islam?
Wind patterns that helped Muslim navigators travel more efficiently.
What are the monsoon winds?
They want to create a more unified and modern state through minimizing differences and taking more control.
What is Ottomanism?
The Turks killed 600,000 to 1.5 million people in an event they still deny is a genocide. They did it because it was thought the people killed were helping the Russian army.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
Egypt took land back and controlled a major waterway. France, UK, and Israel declared war on Egypt and so the US and USSR helped calm down tensions.
What was the Suez Canal Crisis?
The people advocated and got a nation called the republic of Turkey.
Who were the Young Turks?
This religion is practiced by the Safavids.
What is Shi’a Islam?
Taxing peasants at a high rate and secularizing religious land was in order to do this.
What was increasing agricultural production?
A system used by the Ottomans to staff their military and government like administrators.
What is the Devshrime system?
The educated class of Muslim scholars.
Who is the Ulama?
An important cash crop mentioned was this percent of Egypt's total exports.
What is 93%?
Sultans working to root out long standing and widespread corruption in the central government, creating a secular education system of primary and secondary schools along with colleges, and codifying laws.
What was the Tanzimat Reforms?
Under Islamic law women had what rights and power in the Safavid empire.
What is owning property, inheriting wealth, and participating in government?
The USSR wanted bases in Turkey. The US stopped the communist revolution in Greece and Turkey by giving them money through a program.
What is the Truman Doctrine?