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An uncalled for voyage to China
100
Philosopher and physican who lived from 980 to 1037 CE. He was also schooled in the Quran, geometry, literature, and Indian and Euclidian mathematics.
Who is Ibn Sina?
100
Political headquarters of the Ottoman Empire, it was located in Istanbul.
What is the Topkapi Palace?
100
System of taking non-Muslim children in place of taxes in order to educate them in Ottoman Muslim ways and prepare them for service in the sultan's bureaucracy.
What is the devshirme?
100
Orthodox Islam, as opposed to the Shiite Islam.
What is Sunni Islam?
100
The palace city of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
What is the Forbidden City?
200
A scientist and mathematician who lived from 780 to 850 CE and is known for having modified Indian digits into Arabic numerals.
Who is Al-Khwarizmi?
200
A special tax that non-Muslim citizens living in Islamic Empires had to pay.
What is jizya?
200
A family who founded the first dynasty in Islam. They established family rule and dynastic succession to the role of caliph. The first ______ caliph established Damascus as his capital and was named Mu awiya ibn Abi Sufyan.
Who are the Umayyads, or the Umayyad Caliphate?
200
One of the two main branches of Islam. ______s recognize Ali, the fourth caliph, and his descendants as rightful rulers of the Islamic world; practiced in the Safavid empire.
What is Shiite Islam?
200
Large ocean-going vessels, built by Southeast Asians, which plied the regional trade routes from the fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century.
What are jongs?
300
Both Abbasid and Tang rulers relied for protection on this cadre of loyal and well-paid men who were surgically castrated as youths and remained in service to the caliph or emperor.
What are eunuchs?
300
Non-Arab "clients" to Arab tribes in the early Islamic Empire. Because tribal patronage was so much a part of the Arabian cultural system, non-Arabs who converted to Islam affiliated themselves with a tribe and became clients of that tribe.
What are mawali?
300
A radical sect from the early days of Islam, the ______ seceded from the "party of Ali" (who themselves came to be known as the Shiites) because of disagreements over succession to the role of the caliph. They were known for their strict militant piety.
Who are the Kharijites?
300
The scripture of the Islamic faith. Originally a verbal recitation, the _____ was eventually compiled into a book in the order in which we have it today. According to traditional Islamic interpretation, the _____ was revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel over a period of twenty-three years.
What is the Quran?
300
Diverse religious movement in China during the fourteenth century that spread the belief that the world was drawing to an end as Mongol rule was collapsing.
What are the Red Turbans?
400
Founded in 762 CE, _____ was the capital of the Islamic Empire under the Abbasid dynasty. In the medieval period, it was a center of administration, scholarship, and cultural growth for what came to be known as the Golden Age of Islamic science.
What is Baghdad?
400
Bureaucrats of the Ottoman Empire.
What are viziers?
400
The Shiite dynasty that ruled parts of the Islamic Empire beginning in the tenth century CE. They were based in Egypt and founded the city of Cairo.
Who are the Fatimids, or the Fatimid Caliphate?
400
Secluded women's quarters in Muslim households.
What is a harem?
400
Mongol rulers of China who were overthrown by the Ming dynasty in 1368.
What are the Yuan Mongols?
500
Literally, "the way"; now used to indicate the philosophy and rulings of Islamic law.
What is Sharia?
500
Traditional title of Persian rulers.
What is "shah?"
500
Islamic ruler in Spain who held a countercaliphate and reigned from 912 to 961 CE.
Who is Abd al-Rahman III?
500
Mystics within Islam who were responsible for the expansion of Islam into many regions of the world.
What are sufi brotherhoods?
500
Ideology established by Zhou dynasts to communicate the moral transfer of power. Originally a pact between the Zhou people and their supreme god, it evolved in the first century BCE into Chinese political doctrine.
What is the mandate of heaven?