- the Qutb Minar
- the tallest brick minaret in the world, raised by Delhi's first sultans
- Quwwat al-Islam
- the sultanate's first mosque, raised over the site of an earlier temple
- the Sultanate
- the rule of five successive Muslim dynasties over north India, from 1206 to 1526
- Shah Jahan
- the Mughal emperor who rebuilt her as a complete capital of gardens and stone
- Shahjahanabad
- her Mughal name, when Shah Jahan made her his new capital
- the Jama Masjid
- the great Friday mosque Shah Jahan built for his new capital
- the Red Fort
- the emperor's red sandstone palace at the Mughal city's heart
- Chandni Chowk
- her famous moonlit market, designed in the reign of Shah Jahan's daughter
- 1739
- the year Nadir Shah of Persia occupied her and stripped her treasures
- 1857
- the year of her final fall to the British after the great revolt
- India
- the country that holds Delhi — the largest in South Asia
- the five dynasties
- the Mamluks, Khaljis, Tughlaqs, Sayyids and Lodis, ruling one after another
