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| 54088571 | Islam | a montheistic religion that developed in Arabia in the seventh century | 0 | |
| 54088572 | Muslim | a follower of Islam | 1 | |
| 54088573 | Bedouin | Nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian Peninsula, early converts to Islam | 2 | |
| 54088574 | Caliph | political and religious successsor to Muhammad | 3 | |
| 54088575 | Sharia | a body of law governing the lives of muslims | 4 | |
| 54088576 | Dhimmi | people of the book - applied as inclusive term to christians and jews in islamic territories, eventually included Zoroastrians, Hindus and Buddhists | 5 | |
| 54088577 | Crusade | expeditions in which medieval christian warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims | 6 | |
| 54088578 | Stateless societies | cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government | 7 | |
| 54088579 | animism | the belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects | 8 | |
| 54088580 | griots | West - African storyteller / served as keepers of tradition and advisors to Kings of Mali | 9 | |
| 54088581 | Patriarch | head of the Orthodox Church in Byzantium | 10 | |
| 54088582 | orthodox | referring to the spilt in christianity, eastern orthodox officials viewed themselves as the true heirs of Rome | 11 | |
| 54088583 | schism | a split or division -- especially a formal split within a christian church | 12 | |
| 54088584 | tsar / czar | a russian emperor (from the russian for caesar) | 13 | |
| 54088585 | manoriallism | system that described economic and political relations between landlords and peasant laborers - involved in a hierarchy of reciprocal obligations that exchanged labor or rent for access to land | 14 | |
| 54088586 | feudalism | social organization of the Middle Ages whereby grants of land or fiefs were exchanged for formal oaths of allegiance and promises of loyal service | 15 | |
| 54088587 | fief | as estate granted to a vassal by a lord under the feudal system of Medieval Europe | 16 | |
| 54088588 | serfs | peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate | 17 | |
| 54088589 | Pope | leader of the C atholic Church in Rome | 18 | |
| 54088590 | Papacy | the system of government of the Roman catholic Church of which the pope is the supreme head | 19 | |
| 54088591 | investiture | practice of state appointment of bishops (i.e. King appoints a chuch bishop, not the pope) | 20 |
