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- Mandate of Heaven
- divine right to rule
- Mauryan Empire
- 321 B.C. - 185 B.C.
- Abbasid
- the man who founded the abbasid dynatsy
- Shah Jahan
- akbars grandson who built the taj-mahal 1632 - 1652
- Muhammad
- the greatest and last prophet
- Hijra
- Muhammads joiurney to Mecca
- Sunna
- a community of Muslims
- Umayyad
- a dynasty of sunni caliphs
- Sharia
- text that interprets the mesages of the Quran
- Sultan
- the one ruler
- Safavid Empire
- an empire that controlled iran, turkey and georgia
- Ulama
- a body of mullahs
- Bedouins
- nomadic herders
- Confucianism
- official belief of china
- Siddhartha Guatama
- a reformer who taught the core aspects of buddhism
- Daoism
- founded by laozi
- Buddhism
- a religion also made of the himdu traditions
- Sunni
- people who beleived that any good muslim can be the caliph
- Heretics
- someone against you
- Medina
- a sacred city
- Hadith
- oral sangs of Muhammad
- Quran
- the sacred text of islam
- Shah Abbas
- the man who brought back glory to ancient persia
- Sulieman the Magnificient
- a great ruler, the caliph of all muslims
- Abu Bakr
- the father in law of muhammad
- Janissaries
- the ottoman army
- Allah
- the supreme God
- Ottoman Empire
- turkish speeking nomads
- Umma
- arabic word for community
- Mahdi
- expected savior of muslim beliefs
- Kabba
- the temple where abraham went to worship
- Caliphate
- the sucessor
- Mughal Empire
- the mongol warriors 1526 - 1857
- Sufis
- muslim mystics who meditate, fast and perform sacrafices
- Mecca
- a sacred city
- Shah
- the king of safavid
- Janism
- a religion made of the hindu traditions
- Aryan Migration
- a group of namadic people moved into india
- Shi Hunagdi
- built the great wall of china, the first ruler of the zang empire
- Surah
- chapters of the quran
- Jihad
- a struggle in Gods' service
- Akbar
- cheif builder of empire 1556 - 1605
- Shiites
- people who believed that the son in law of muhammad should've been the caliph
- Bhagvad Gita
- hindu literary beleifs
- Mullahs
- people trained in law and doctrine
- Nirvana
- the ultimate goal of buddhism
- Seljuk Turks
- a civilization taht dominated the fertile crescent and they adopted islam as ther religion
- Mosque
- the temple of islams
- Muslim
- the followers of islam