midterm Flashcards
Isfahan
capital of ancient iran
kurds
iran
axeris
turkic speaking people in azerbaijan
zorastrians
iran
shah
king
mohammed reza shah
iran overthrown by iranian revolution too secular
mohamed mossadagh
Iranian PM overthrown by CIA
operation ajax
UK and US overthrow mossadagh
savak
iranian secret police
ayatollah Khomeni
led islamic revolution died in 1989
bahai
iran
Iran-Iraq war
war over nothing, no real reason to start
Ayatollah Khamenei
Current ruler of Iran
Hasan rouhani
current president of Iran
Mullah
muslim educated in theology
Asia Minor/Anatolia
refers to Turkey
Bosporus
Turkey - strait boundary of Asia and Europe
Istanbul
NW Turkey
Constantinople
capital for Roman and Byzantine Latin and Ottoman empires
Turkish
Altaic language
Kemal Ataturk
Turkey - first prime minister lots of reform
young turks
a coalition starting in the late 1870s to get a new constitution
Kemalism
six arrows - reforms designed to separate the new state of Turkey from its Ottoman tradition and embrace a Westernized way of living
Kabul
Afghanistan - bottom right near pakistan
herat
top left afghanistan
pushtum
indo-european people from ancient eas tpersia