1. Published by Pearson Education India Authored by Edgar Thorpe & Showick Thorpe PART 2: Rise of Islamic Central Asia [Section 3] Topics CoveredSlide Numbers 3.1Turks[2] 3.2 The Ottoman state[ ] 3.3India[3] 3.4Mongols[4] 3.5 China[5] 3.6Russia[ ] 3.7Persia[6] 3.8Africa[7] 3.9South East Asia[8]

2. Question 1: In 1571 which battle marked the end of Turkish empire? Answer: Spartan war 1. Extra Fact Punch: Period of Spartan war1 was in 459 BC, and lasted for 30 years.

3. Question 2: Who led raids on Turkish empire into north India. Answer: Mahmud of Ghazni from AD (971-1030). Extra Fact Punch: Turkish power was consolidated in 1206 with the start of sultnate in delhi.

4. Question 3: Mongols were Islamized in. Answer: 1295. Extra Fact Punch: Chenghis Khan(1167-1277) first united the feuding Mongol tribes, and built their armies into an active offensive force around a core of highly mobile cavalry.

5. Question 4: The dynasty which used Mongols and other foreigners in official posts and tolerated the return of Nestorian Christanity was named as. Answer: Tuan dynasty. Extra Fact Punch: Kublai Khan ruled China from his new Capital Beijing (established in AD 1264).

6. Question 5: ‘Epic of firdausi’(935-1020) means: Answer: A revival in art, influenced by Chinese style. Extra Fact Punch: The Persian culture and political forms, and often the Persian language, were used for centuries by Turkish and Mongol elites from the Balkans to India.

7. Question 6: Name the two Islamic militant dynasties emerged from the Sahara to carve out empires from the Sahel to central Spain? Answer: (a) The Almoravids (b) The Fanatical Almohads. Extra Fact Punch: Some 40 Muslim Arab-Persian trading colonies and city-states were established all along the East African Coast from the 10 th century.

8. Question 7: Islam was introduced into Malaya and the Indonesian islands by Arab, Persian and Indian traders. Principal state was the______. Answer: ‘Malacca state’. Extra Fact Punch: Malacca state (c 1400-1511) on the Malaya peninsula.