| Defination | Vocaubulary |
| Most powerful of the trading states on north coast Java; converted to Islam adn served as point dissemination to other ports. | |
| Lengthy epic poem by Firdawsi. | |
| a trading city whose small trading empires replaced the falling Shrivijaya empire. | |
| Great Mongol war commander. | |
| Descendant of Guptas in India; brirfly constructed a loose empire in northern India between 616 and 657 CE. | |
| Turkic slaves who defeated the Mongols and then ruled Egypt. | |
| The successor of Harun al-rashid, who won the first civil war. | |
| Wandering mystics who sought a personal union with Allah. | |
| Muslim mystic during the 15th century; played down the importance of ritual differences between Hinduism and Islam. | |
| The twin emblems of women's increasing subjugation to men and confinement to the home in the Abbasid era. | |
| A regional splinter dynasty in Persia who invaded the heartland of Abbasid dynasty and captured Baghdad. | |