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UNIT 17: Ideas Shape the World

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dar al-Islam

The realm of Islam.

jihad

Muslim term for either internal struggle against sin or a holy war against infidels.

mestizo

Term used by Spanish colonial administrators to describe someone of mixed Native American and European heritage.

Mughal Empire

Muslim state that controlled most of the Indian subcontinent from 1526 - 1857 CE.

Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Eighteenth-century Muslim religious leader who preached a fundamentalist approach to his followers in the Arabian peninsula.

Safavid Empire

Iranian kingdom established by Ismail Safavi, who declared Iran (Persia) a Shi'ite state, 1502 - 1722.

Saint Domingue

French Caribbean colony that produced sugar and considerable revenue for France; it later became the independent nation of Haiti.

shaykh

Title for an Arab tribal leader.

Shi'ite Safavids

The Safavids made Shi'ia the state religion of Persia.

Simon Bolivar

Leader of independence movement in South America, 1783 - 1830.

Toussaint L'Ouverture

Leader of the Haitian Revolution to free the peoples of the Caribbean colony Saint Domingue from French rule, 1743 - 1803.

Usman dan Fodio

Founder of the Sokoto caliphate in West Africa in the early nineteenth century.

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