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| When did the Abbasids power start to recess? |
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| What does the term sultan mean? |
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| "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? |
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| Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and Iran |
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| In what year did the Aghlabid Dynasty rule over North Africa? |
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| In what year did a Shiite uprising replace the Aghlabid Dynasty with a decsendant of Fatimah? |
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| How is Fatimah related to the prophet? |
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| What was the name of the new dynasty that replaced the Aghlabid Dynasty? |
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| What area did the Fatimids conquer and establish a Caliph in? |
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| What was the new capital that the Fatimids established? |
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| What year was the Fatimid power at its peak? |
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| What caused the decline of Fatimid power? |
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| 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? |
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| 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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| 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? |
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| 1071, Manzikart, Alparlsan |
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| 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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| What year did Genghis Khan die? |
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| Who was the grandson of Genghis Khan that conquered Iraq? |
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| Who was the great grandson of Hulagu that embraced Islam? |
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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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| What city was captured in the first Crusade? |
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| What year was Jerusalem captured? |
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| Who was the first ruler of the Holy State of Jerusalem? |
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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? |
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| When did the Ottoman's caputre Constantinople? |
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| 1366 by Mohammed the Second |
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| Who and in what year was the Cape of Good Hope established? |
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| What year was the Capitulation treaty enacted? |
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