The Ottoman Empire

Question 1

Ottoman Empire

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The Ottoman Empire, also known as the Turkish Empire, Ottoman Turkey, was an empire founded at the end of the thirteenth century in northwestern Anatolia in the vicinity of Bilecik and Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman.

Question 2

Sultan

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a Muslim sovereign.

Question 3

Sultanate

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a state or country that is ruled by a sultan. : the position of a sultan or the period of time when a sultan rules.

Question 4

Harem

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the separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants.

Question 5

Aurangzeb

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Aurangzeb was a bigoted Muhammadan, and his accession to the throne threatened to have serious consequences for Mullah Shah.

Question 6

Shah

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a title of the former monarch of Iran.

Question 7

Maratha Kingdom

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a member of the princely and military castes of the former Hindu kingdom of Maharashtra in central India.

Question 8

Timur the Lame

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Timur (Persian: تیمور‎‎ Timūr, Chagatai: Temür, Uzbek: Temur; 9 April 1336— 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane (Persian: تيمور لنگ‎‎ Timūr(-e) Lang, “Timur the Lame”), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia.

Question 9

Mehmet the Conqueror

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Mehmed II, best known as Mehmed the Conqueror, was an Ottoman sultan who ruled first for a short time from August 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to May 1481.

Question 10

Emperor Akbar

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Abu’l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, popularly known as Akbar I and later Akbar the Great, was Mughal Emperor from 1556 until his death. He was the third and one of the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India.

Question 11

Nur Jahan

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Nur Jahan (Persian: نور جهان‎‎; Urdu: نور جهاں‎; Pashto: نور جہاں‎) (alternative spelling: Noor Jahan, Nur Jehan) (31 May 1577 – 17 December 1645) born Mehr-un-Nissa, was the twentieth but most beloved, and therefore most important consort of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.

Question 12

Delhi

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a union territory in N India. 574 sq. mi. (1487 sq. km).

Question 13

Sufism

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the mystical system of the Sufis.

Question 14

Sikishm

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a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Guru Nanak.

Question 15

Taj Mahal

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The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

Question 16

Safavid

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a member of a dynasty that ruled Persia 1502–1736 and installed Shia rather than Sunni Islam as the state religion.

Question 17

Ismail Abbs

Answer 17

Ali Abbas (born 1991) is an Iraqi man who drew a lot of media attention after being severely injured in a night-time aerial missile attack near Baghdad during the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq.