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| 4265385183 | neo-Confucianism | a philosophy that emerged in Song-dynasty China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements | 0 | |
| 4265385184 | sacking of Constantinople | 1453; sacked becuse it was the most logical place to rule. Mehmet the conqueror; Solidly Christian; considered a huge blow to western Christianity | 1 | |
| 4265385185 | St. Cyril | a missionary in the 9th century who invented an alphabet for the Slavic language | 2 | |
| 4265385186 | cyrillic alphabet | an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages | 3 | |
| 4265385187 | Schism in Christianity | the medieval division between Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church | 4 | |
| 4265385188 | schism in Islam | the Shia / Sunni split which occurred in the decades immediately following the death of the Prophet Mohammed in 632 | 5 | |
| 4265385189 | Shintoism | the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma | 6 | |
| 4265385190 | Timbuktu | Mali trading city that became a center of wealth and learning | 7 | |
| 4265385191 | Tenochitlan | Aztec capital city (now the site of Mexico City) | 8 | |
| 4265385192 | William the Conqueror | duke of Normandy who led the Norman invasion of England and became the first Norman to be King of England | 9 | |
| 4265385193 | Abu Bakr | first caliph after death of Muhammad | 10 | |
| 4265385194 | animism | the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | 11 | |
| 4265385195 | Bedouins | small groups of nomadic people in Arabia | 12 | |
| 4265385196 | Black Stone | meteorite placed in shrine (Ka'ba) in Mecca, Muslims pay homage to it | 13 | |
| 4265385197 | caliphate | the territorial jurisdiction of a caliph | 14 | |
| 4265385198 | Five Pillars of Faith | five steps to take to become less evil, part of the Islam religion; affirmation, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage | 15 | |
| 4265385199 | "golden age" | period of great cultural achievement | 16 | |
| 4265385200 | hadith | (Islam) a tradition based on reports of the sayings and activities of Muhammad and his companions | 17 | |
| 4265385201 | harem | living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | 18 | |
| 4265385202 | jihad | Islamic holy war | 19 | |
| 4265385203 | jinns | desert spirits (associated w/ demonic shaitans) | 20 | |
| 4265385204 | Ka'ba | the stone cubical structure in the courtyard of the Great Mosque of Mecca, believed to have been built by Abraham and regarded by Muslims as the sacred center of the earth | 21 | |
| 4265385205 | madrasas | Islamic institutions of higher education that originated in the tenth century. | 22 | |
| 4265385206 | minaret | the tower attached to a mosque from which the muezzin, or crier, calls the faithful to prayer five times a day | 23 | |
| 4265385207 | Muhammad | the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632) | 24 | |
| 4265385208 | The Night Journey | Muhammad's supreme mystical experience, woken by Gabriel, went to heaven and saw prophets, told by Allah to pray five times a day | 25 | |
| 4265385209 | People of the Book | what Muslims called Christians and Jews which means that they too only believe in one god | 26 | |
| 4265385210 | Qur'an | the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina | 27 | |
| 4265385211 | Seal of the Prophets | Muhammad's name for himself, signifying that he was the final prophet of Allah. | 28 | |
| 4265385212 | Seljuk Turks | nomadic Turks from Asia who conquered Baghdad in 1055 and allowed the caliph to remain only as a religious leader | 29 | |
| 4265385213 | shari'a | the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed | 30 | |
| 4265385214 | Shi'ites | Muslims belonging to the branch of Islam believing that God vests leadership of the community in a descendant of Muhammad's son-in-law Ali | 31 | |
| 4265385215 | Sunni | a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad | 32 | |
| 4265385216 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 33 | |
| 4265385217 | sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 34 | |
| 4265385218 | The Thousand and One Nights | a popular Muslim literature that included collection of fairy tales, parables, and legends | 35 | |
| 4265385219 | ulama | Muslim religious scholars. From the ninth century onward, the primary interpreters of Islamic law and the social core of Muslim urban societies. | 36 | |
| 4265385220 | Umayyad Dynasty | established by Muawiya, moved capital from Medina to Damascus, that action split Islam (Shi'ites & Sunnites) | 37 | |
| 4265385221 | umma | the Muslim community or people, considered to extend from Mauritania to Pakistan | 38 | |
| 4265385222 | vizier | a high government official in ancient Egypt or in Muslim countries | 39 | |
| 4265385223 | barter | exchange goods without involving money | 40 | |
| 4265385224 | Benedictine Rule | a collection of rules or guidelines for monks and monasteries; named for Benedict of Nursia; widely used in Europe in the Middle Ages | 41 | |
| 4265385225 | Byzantine Empire | empire that grew from the eastern part of the former Roman Empire; lasted until around 1400 | 42 | |
| 4265385226 | caesaropapism | the dual role of the state and leader of the church in which a temporal ruler extends his own powers to theological and ecclesiastical matters | 43 | |
| 4265385227 | canon law | the Church's own body of laws; this law applied to religious teachings, the behavior of the clergy, and even marriages and morals | 44 | |
| 4265385228 | Carolingian family | a group of Frankish nobles that took control of the Frankish empire | 45 | |
| 4265385229 | Clovis | king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy | 46 | |
| 4265385230 | excommunication | the act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church | 47 | |
| 4265385231 | interdict | an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district | 48 |
