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| 6532203043 | mita | labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control. | 0 | |
| 6532203044 | Inca socialism | an interpretation describing Inca society as a type of utopia; image of the Inca empire as a carefully organized system in which every community collectively contributed to the whole. | 1 | |
| 6532203045 | yanas | a class of people within Inca society removed from their ayllus to serve permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the Inca or the Inca nobility. | 2 | |
| 6532203046 | quipu | system of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system; could contain numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records. | 3 | |
| 6532203047 | Zheng He | Muslim Chinese seaman; commanded expeditions throughout the India Ocean. | 4 | |
| 6532203048 | Renaissance | cultural and political elite movement beginning in Italy circa 1400; rested on urban vitality and expanding commerce; produced literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the European Middle Ages. | 5 | |
| 6532203049 | Francesco Petrarch | Italian author and humanist; a major literary figure of the Renaissance. | 6 | |
| 6532203050 | Castile and Aragon | regional Iberian kingdoms; participated in reconquest of peninsula from | 7 | |
| 6532203051 | Muslims; developed a vigorous military and religious agenda. | 8 | ||
| 6532203052 | Vivaldi | Genoese explorers who attempted to find a western route to the "Indies"; precursors of European thrust into southern Atlantic. | 9 | |
| 6532203053 | Taika reforms | attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. | 10 | |
| 6532203054 | Tale of Genji | written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society. | 11 | |
| 6532203055 | Fujiwara | mid-9th- century Japanese aristocratic family; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | 12 | |
| 6532203056 | bushi | regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies. | 13 | |
| 6532203057 | samurai | mounted troops of the bushi; loyal to local lords, not the emperor. | 14 | |
| 6532203058 | seppuku | ritual suicide in Japan; also known as hari-kiri; demonstrated courage and was a means to restore family honor. | 15 | |
| 6532203059 | Taira | powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after Gempei Wars. | 16 | |
| 6532203060 | Minamoto | defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government (bakufu) in 12th-century Japan. | 17 | |
| 6532203061 | Gempei wars | waged for five years from 1180 on Honshu between the Taira and Minamoto families; ended in destruction of Taira. | 18 | |
| 6532203062 | bakufu | military government established by the Minamoto following Gumpei wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai. shoguns: military leaders of the bakufu. | 19 | |
| 6532203063 | Hojo | a warrior family closely allied with the Minamoto; dominated Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers; ruled in name of emperor. | 20 | |
| 6532203064 | Ashikaga Takuaji | member of Minamoto family; overthrew Kamakura regime and established Ashikaga shogunate (1336-1573); drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino. | 21 | |
| 6532203065 | Ashikaga Shogunate | replaced the Kamakura regime and ruled from 1336 to 1573; destroyed rival Yoshino center of imperial authority. | 22 | |
| 6532203066 | daimyos | warlord rulers of small states following Onin war and disruption of Ashikaga | 23 | |
| 6532203067 | shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states. | 24 |
