4.3: Europe and the Muslim World Vocabulary

Question 1

Muhammad Ahmad

Answer 1

a person in Sudan who claimed to be Mahdi(the long-awaited savior of the faith) and led his followers to fiercely resist British expansion into the region

Question 2

pashas

Answer 2

provincial rulers

Question 3

sultans

Answer 3

rulers of the Ottoman Turkish empire

Question 4

genocide

Answer 4

a deliberate and systematic killing of people who belong to a particular racial, ethnic, or cultural group

Question 5

Muhammad Ali

Answer 5

an Albanian Muslim soldier who was appointed governor of Egypt in 1805, helped oust the French from Egypt, was known as the “founder of modern Egypt”, introduced political and economic reforms, strictly straightened Egypt into modernizing and improving economies, and had set. Egypt on the road to becoming a major Middle Eastern power

Question 6

concessions

Answer 6

special rights given to foreign companies or individuals