🌍ap world history: modern review

Turkic peoples

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
Verified for the 2027 exam
Verified for the 2027 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

Groups of Central Asian origin who dominated most of the new Islamic political entities that emerged after the fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate.

AP course connection

Topic 1.2: 1.2 Developments in Dar al-Islam from 1200-1450

Unit 1

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