37444900 | Islam | a monotheistic religion that delevoped in Arabia in the 7th century | 0 | |
37444901 | Muslim | a follower of Islam | 1 | |
37444902 | Bedouin | Nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian peninsula; culture based on camel and goat nomadism; early converts to Islam. | 2 | |
37444903 | Caliph | The political and religious successor to Muhammad | 3 | |
37444904 | sharia | a body of law governing the lives of Muslims | 4 | |
37444905 | dhimmi | Literally "people of the book"; applied as inclusive term to Jews and Christians in Islamic territories; later extended to Zoroastrians and even Hindus & Buddhists | 5 | |
37444906 | Crusade | expeditions in which medieval Christians warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims. | 6 | |
37444907 | stateless societies | cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal power instead of being exercised by a central government. | 7 | |
37444908 | animism | the belief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects | 8 | |
37444909 | griots | West African storyteller, served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali emperor | 9 | |
37447607 | patriarch | head of the Orthodox Church in Byzantium | 10 | |
37447608 | orthodox | referring to the slip in Christianity, Eastern orthodox officials viewed themselves as the true heirs of Rome | 11 | |
37447609 | schism | A split or division - especially a formal split within a Christian Church. | 12 | |
37447610 | (tsar) czar | russian emperor (Russian word for Caesar) | 13 | |
37447611 | manorialism | System that described economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers during the Middle Ages; involved hierarchy of reciprocal obligations that exchanged labor or rents for access to land. | 14 | |
37447612 | 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 | |
37447613 | fief | an estate granted to a vassal by a lord under feudal system of Medieval Europe | 16 | |
37447614 | serfs | Peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate | 17 | |
37447615 | Pope | leader of theCatholic church in Rome | 18 | |
37447616 | Papacy | the government of the Roman Catholic Church, in which pope is supreme head | 19 | |
37447617 | investiture | Practice of state appointment of bishops (ie. king appoints a church bishop, not the Pope) | 20 |
600-1450 vocab pt 1 Flashcards
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