Final Flashcards

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Antioch (1097-8)

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first major city to fall to the crusaders, took place over new years

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Jerusalem (1099)

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Final major city to fall to crusaders

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Hatin (1187)

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Decisive victory of Salahadin over the crusaders used victory to retake jerusalem

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4
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Constantinople (1204)

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4th crusade, crusaders take over the city

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5
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Baghdad (1258)

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Mongols take the city and sack

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Any Jaliyah (1260)

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Mongols defeated by Mamlucks and their expansion is halted

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Acre (1291)

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Mamluks take the city from the crusaders, given them a foot hold against crusaders

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Delhi (1399)

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Timur, captures Bayezid and gains allegiance of the Bayezids sons

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Constantinople (1453)

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Mahmed II, ottomans conquered Byzantine empire. Byzantines are wiped

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Granada (1492)

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Fall of Granada to Ferdinand and Isabella

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Raymond of St Gilles

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Led the first crusade, capture Jerusalem in 1099. Massacres the inhabitants of Jerusalem

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12
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Richard the Lionheart

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Third crusade, triggered by Salahadin; He fought Salahadin to a draw, securing a beach head for the crusaders

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13
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‘Imad al-Din

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Took out the crusader kingdom of edessa. It was an easy inland target. First crusader kingdom to fall

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Nur al-Din

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Son of Imad, wanted to unify cities didn’t want to take damascus by force

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Salah al Din

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Founder of the Ayyubids, Jihadist who retook jerusalem for the muslims

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16
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al-Kamil

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Made a treaty, giving back jerusalem to the crusaders

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17
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Salih Ayyub

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His core of slave soldiers become the Mamluks

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al-Nasir (1180-1225)

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overthrew the seljuq ruler Tughril III

19
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Baybars

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emerged after ayan jalut founder of the mamluk dynasty, set tone for removal of crusaders

20
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Qalavun

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patronized famous hospital and continued eliminating crusader cities

21
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Osman

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founder of the ottoman dynasty battled byzantines and took constantinople

22
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Murad I

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Massive expansion, took back Bakans and Anatolia, became a sultan, founded the janissries, was assassinated

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Bayezid

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increased centralization, slave system, built very large army and brought into conflict with Timur, Battle of Ankara (1402) “triumph of Timur” captured Bayezed

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Murad II

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Return of Ottomans, treaty with Byzantines created a Navy

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Mehmed II

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conquest to capture Constantinople he cast and had strong centralized government

26
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Clavio

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Spanish ambassador to Timur at Samurqand, was a first hand source to Timur’s court

27
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Timur

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he has five and seven year conquests, great conqueror, descendants ruled for century over persia and central asia

28
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Ibn Arabi

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a mystic, the perfect human

29
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Maimonides

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jewish philosopher from spain, worked in egypt was a Ravi and physician

30
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Sunrawadi

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Sufi master in Baghdad close to caliph

31
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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

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wrote textbooks on astronomy theology and math, joined ismali court and later mongol court and convinced mongols to build him observatory

32
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al-Nawai

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lived in damascus, was hadith scholar master jurist

33
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Rashid al-Din

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wrote universal history in persian for the Ilkhanids

34
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Rumi

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popular suffi persian poet

35
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Ibn Taymiyya

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critical of aspects of sunni islam lived in cairo and wrote lots of legal responses

36
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Ibn Khaldun

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historian on dynasties in cairo

37
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Ibn al-Nadia

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famous for describing circulation of blood

38
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Policies of Ayyubids and Mamluks to crusaders

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Ayyubids tolerant and allowed free trade and no one has to die, Mamluks aggressive and wanted to kill crusaders

39
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Which three major cities in syria and egypt did crusaders fail to capture

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Damascus Cairo and Aleppo

40
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Ibn ‘Arabi’s concept of perfect human

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no separation between man and god and it is like a mirror and without god we don’t exist, god is a sphere and man is a branch connected to sphere

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Impact of Mongols and impact on the Mongols

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destruction of nishapur, redrew borders between muslim and european world; mongols got really rich and mongols adopted islam and persian culture

42
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Muslim Palace in Granada who conquered it and fate of muslims there

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Alhambra, conquered by ferdinand and isabella of spain, all muslims had to convert or leave

43
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Rumi Discourse 17

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there’s beast angels and men is a mix, god is the beauty in men and greed is the beast in men

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5 elements of classical sunni synthesis

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union of 4 theological schools, promotion of suffi orders, hadith scholars loyalty to a single caliph