1. TURKS AND MONGOLS MUSLIM WORLD 1000 AD

2. TURKS AND MONGOLS VOCABULARY SELJUK TURKSOTTOMAN TURKS SALADINSULTAN RICHARD THE LION-HEARTED GENGHIS KHAN MONGOLS MAMLUKS

3. TURKS AND MONGOLS TURKS MIGRATE INTO ABBASID EMPIRE -1000AD LEADER IS SELJUK -CONVERTS TO ISLAM DOMINATED WORLD OF ISLAM 1055 INVADED BAGHDAD KEPT ABBASID CALIPHS

4. TURKS AND MONGOLS CALIPHS RULED BUT SULTANS WERE REAL POWER DEFEATED GREEKS AT MANZIKERT ASIA MINOR OPEN TO TURK CONQUEST SPARKED FIRST CRUSADE

5. TURKS AND MONGOLS SELJUK ARMIES INVADE BYZANTIME EMPIRE POPE ASKS FOR HELP FROM WESTERN CHRISTENDOM FIRST CRUSADE MOST SUCCESSFUL – TOOK SELJUK TURKS BY SURPRISE 1100 – CRUSADER STATES IN PALESTINE & SYRIA

6. TURKS AND MONGOLS CRUSADERS KILLED JEWS, MUSLIMS, AND ARAB CHRISTIANS BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT TELL AN ENEMY FROM A FRIEND – CRUSADERS DID NOT SPEAK ARABIC

7. TURKS AND MONGOLS OVER TIME ACQUIRED MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SKILLS FROM THE MUSLIMS 1150 – TURKS QUARREL AMONGST THEMSELVES SALADIN WAITS FOR LAST FATIMID RULER TO DIE AND SEIZES POWER COMPETENT RULER AND CONQUEROR

8. TURKS AND MONGOLS 1187 SALADIN RECAPTURES JERUSALEM WEST LAUNCHES THIRD CRUSADE LED BY RICHARD OF ENGLAND, BARBAROSSA OF GERMANY AND PHILIP AUGUSTUS OF FRANCE IN-FIGHTING – BARBAROSSA DROWNED; PHILIP WENT HOME; RICHARD STAYED

9. TURKS AND MONGOLS SALADIN AND RICHARD SIGN 10 YEAR TRUCE TO ALLOW PILGRIMS SAFE ACCESS TO JERUSALEM SALADIN HAD BEEN PREPARED TO DO THAT BEFORE THE FIGHTING 1193 SALADIN HAD DESTROYED ALMOST ALL OF CRUSADER STATES

10. TURKS AND MONGOLS MID 1200’S – GENGHIS KHAN DEVASTED AREAS OF THE MIDDLE EAST THAT HAVE STILL NOT RECOVERED MUSLIM WORLD SHATTERED BY THE END OF ABBASID DYNASTY MILLIONS KILLED IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN ASIA DURING MONGOL INVASIONS

11. TURKS AND MONGOLS MUCH OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OF ISLAM WAS LOST MAMLUKS – MERCENARY ARMY FROM EGYPT – STOPPED THE MONGOLS FROM GOING WEST MONGOLS TURNED BACK TO IRAQ AND PERSIA MONGOL DESCENDANTS GRADUALLY CONVERTED AND WERE ASSIMILATED INTO POPULATIONS IN SW ASIA

12. TURKS AND MONGOLS MUSLIM TURKS IN EGYPT, SYRIA AND ASIA MINOR HOLD ON TO MUSLIM HERITAGE 1300 OTTOMAN TURKS CONQUER LANDS ON EDGE OF BYZANTIME EMPIRE AND CONTROL ASIA MINOR 1453 – OTTOMAN TURKS TAKE CONSTANTINOPLE- CHANGED NAME TO ISTANBUL WENT AS FAR AS SE EUROPE (HUNGARY, GREECE, ROMANIA, BULGARIA)

13. TURK S AND MONGOLS OTTOMAN TURKS THREATENED WESTERN CHRISTENDOM EMPIRE LASTED UNTIL END OF WWI