283117362 | 5 Pillars of Islam | One God, Prayer 5 times per day, Charity, Ramadan, the Haij | 0 | |
283117363 | Sultanate | A Muslim government | 1 | |
283117364 | Caliph | A spiritual and political leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad | 2 | |
283117365 | Mamluks | Slave soldiers who converted for Islam, they rose to power in Egypt. Stopped the Mongols 13th century | 3 | |
283117366 | Sufis | Muslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and S.E. Asia | 4 | |
283117367 | Mansa Musa | King of Mali, whose famous haij caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca | 5 | |
283117368 | Ghana | West African kingdom which traded for gold and salt 6th- 13th centuries | 6 | |
283117369 | Mali | West African kingdom established by Sundiata and later led by Mansa Musa in the 14th century | 7 | |
283117370 | Griots | African storyteller, advisor, and historian | 8 | |
283117371 | Byzantine Empire | The remainder of the Roman Empire in the East, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 | 9 | |
283117372 | The Great Schism | A division between the Western Christian church and the Eastern (Orthodox) church in 1054 | 10 | |
283117373 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim traveler c. 14th century who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to So. East Asia | 11 | |
283117374 | Feudalism | A political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty, and the granting of land to nobles or warriors | 12 | |
283117375 | Guilds | Economic associations between people in the same business or craft | 13 | |
283117376 | Chinampas | Artificial islands on which Mesoamericans grew crops | 14 | |
283117377 | Aztec | Mesoamerican kingdom which built its capital, Tenochitlan, on a lake. Conquered by Cortez in 1519 | 15 | |
283117378 | Inca | South American kingdom known for building a vast system of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532 | 16 | |
283117379 | Quipu | A system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across their empire | 17 | |
283117380 | Neo Confucianism | A revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which effected women negatively | 18 | |
283117381 | Gunpowder | Invented in China during the Song Dynasty | 19 | |
283117382 | Samurai | The equivalent of the knight in Europe | 20 | |
283117383 | Tribute | A payment to a government, could be labor or goods | 21 | |
283117384 | Golden Horde | Mongol Empire which occupied Russia from the 13th century to the 15th century | 22 | |
283117385 | Humanism | Western European movement which stressed the power stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th c | 23 | |
283117386 | Zheng He | Chinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used to 100 yard long treasure junks | 24 | |
283117387 | Marco Polo | 13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for 17 years | 25 | |
283117388 | Islam | Monotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622 | 26 | |
283117389 | Indian Ocean Trading Network | trade network which included East Africa, the Middle East, India, So. East Asia, and China | 27 | |
283117390 | Trans-Saharan Trading Network | Trade route centered on salt and gold | 28 | |
283117391 | Swahili | African language derived from Bantu, Arabic, and Persian | 29 | |
283117392 | Syncretism | The combining of two different things to make something new | 30 | |
283117393 | Silk Road | Ancient trade route running from China, to Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean | 31 | |
283117394 | Crusades | An attempt to take back the "holy land" from the Muslims. Resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe | 32 | |
283117395 | Mongols | Nomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire up to that time | 33 | |
283117396 | Black Death | 14th century pandemic which came from China and killed at least 1/4 of the Europeans | 34 | |
283117397 | Renaissance | The reawakening of Western Europe, the revival of Roman art and ideas | 35 | |
283117398 | Genghis Khan | The unifier of the Mongols | 36 | |
283117399 | Joan of Arc | French leader who helped to expel the English but was burned at the stake in 1431 | 37 | |
283117400 | Constantinople | Capital of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453 | 38 | |
283117401 | Vikings | Scandinavian people who invaded Europe between the 8th and 12th centuries | 39 |
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