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Middle East History Test 2
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Undergraduate 3
03/16/2010

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When did the Abbasids power start to recess?
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850 AD
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What does the term sultan mean?
Definition
"He with power", it was the head of the Caliph's bodyguard.
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In which areas did the sultans establish independant Muslim states?
Definition
Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and Iran
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In what year did the Aghlabid Dynasty rule over North Africa?
Definition
800-900 AD
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In what year did a Shiite uprising replace the Aghlabid Dynasty with a decsendant of Fatimah?
Definition
909 AD
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How is Fatimah related to the prophet?
Definition
She is the daughter.
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What was the name of the new dynasty that replaced the Aghlabid Dynasty?
Definition
The Fatimids
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What area did the Fatimids conquer and establish a Caliph in?
Definition
Egypt
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What was the new capital that the Fatimids established?
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Cairo
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What year was the Fatimid power at its peak?
Definition
1000 AD
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What caused the decline of Fatimid power?
Definition
Idle Rulers and foreign slave armies
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The decline of the Fatimid empire coincided with what other historic events?
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The disruption of the Seljuk Turk Empire and the Crusades.
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Who are the Seljuk turks named after?
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Their chieftan (or Khan), Saljuk
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What did the Seljuk Turks start as?
Definition
Nomads who moved into the heartland of Islamic territory
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What sect of Islam did the Seljuks adopt?
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Sunnite
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Around when, and around what regions, did the Seljuk turks "swarm"
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In 1055, They swarmed over Iraq and Persia, into Syria, and then finally into Anatolia
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Who was Seljak's grandson, and what did he do?
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He was Tughril, and he conquered Baghdad in 1037
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What Seljuk turk defeated the Byzanitines and what was the battle, and when?
Definition
1071, Manzikart, Alparlsan
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Who was Nizam al-Mulk?
Definition
An intelligent and capable Persian administrator, who brought propserity and sponsered colleeges under the Seljuk rule
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What year was Al-Mulk assassinated?
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1227
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What year did Genghis Khan die?
Definition
1227
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Who was the grandson of Genghis Khan that conquered Iraq?
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Hulagu, in 1253
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Who was the great grandson of Hulagu that embraced Islam?
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Ghason in 1260
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Where were the Mogols defeated and by whom?
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1260, by an Egyptian Mamluke army in Palestine
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Who and in what year was the first Crusade launched?
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1095 by Pope Urban II
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What city was captured in the first Crusade?
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Antioch 1098
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What year was Jerusalem captured?
Definition
1099
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Who was the first ruler of the Holy State of Jerusalem?
Definition
Geoffrey of Boullion
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What cities comprised the "Latin Kingdom of the East"?
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Antioch, Tripolli, Edessa, and Jerusalem
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What was the new capital of the ottoman empire?
Definition
Adrianople
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When did the Ottoman's caputre Constantinople?
Definition
1366 by Mohammed the Second
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Who and in what year was the Cape of Good Hope established?
Definition
Vasco de Gama in 1498
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What year was the Capitulation treaty enacted?
Definition
1520
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