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| 2091619264 | Humanists | The focus on humankind as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavor | 0 | |
| 2091620785 | Demesne land | The part of the lord's manorial lands reserved for his own use and not allocated to his serfs or freeholder tenants. Serfs worked the demesne for a specified numbers of days a week | 1 | |
| 2091621049 | Gothic architecture | A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches | 2 | |
| 2091621464 | Hanseatic League | a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669 | 3 | |
| 2091621987 | Interdict | A prohibition by the pope that can deprive individual persons, groups, communities and even nations of all priestly ministry. Thus, they no longer had access to the sacraments of the church | 4 | |
| 2091622410 | Northern Renaissance/ High Renaissance | N-Flemish, Dutch art focus H- later period of the Renaissance, Italy big, Hellenistic influence | 5 | |
| 2091623035 | Villein | one of a class of feudal serfs, that held legal status of freedom in dealings with ppl except their lord | 6 | |
| 2091623567 | Seljuk Turks / Ottoman Turks | S- major branch of the Oghuz turks, ruled parts of central asia and middle east (11-14 centuries) O- ethnic subdivision of Turkish ppl, who dominated ruling class of the ottoman empire | 7 | |
| 2091624120 | Bantun | term used to describe 400 diff enthnic groups in Africa, Cameroon to south Africa, which were untied by a common language (Bantu languages) | 8 | |
| 2091624549 | Khazars | nomadic Turkic people from central asia, many converted to Judaism, basically wandering people, allies of Byzantine empire and sassanid empire | 9 | |
| 2091624979 | Kievan Russia | early east Slavic state, dominated by city of kiev | 10 | |
| 2091625359 | steppes | a vast semiarid grass-covered plain, found in southeast Europe and Mongolia | 11 | |
| 2091625836 | Black Death | Also known as the Black Plague that wiped out approximately 25 million people in Europe, or 25% of it's population | 12 | |
| 2091639869 | bubonic plague | A highly contagious disease, that was fatal and otherwise known as the disease spread in Asia and Europe in 1347-1351 by the Chinese and Mongols | 13 | |
| 2091640112 | Dardanelles | a straight connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara | 14 | |
| 2091640571 | Toltecs | a member of a Nahuatl-speaking people of central and southern Mexico whose empire flourished from the 10th century under invasion by the Aztes in the 12th Century | 15 | |
| 2091641085 | Quipu | A record-keeping device of the Inca empire consisting of a series of variously colored strings attached to a base rope and knotted so as to encode information, used especially for accounting purposes | 16 | |
| 2091641523 | Tula | capital of the Toltec people, established around 968 CE | 17 | |
| 2091645152 | Acculturation | the obtainment of culture by an individual or a group of people | 18 | |
| 2091645583 | bakufu | military government established by the Minamoto, a powerful Japanese clan in 1185 | 19 | |
| 2091646009 | bushi | Japanese warrior leaders tasked with law and order, public infrastructure, tax collection, and organizing an army | 20 | |
| 2091646188 | bushido | Japanese warrior code of conduct, similar to the chivalry system in Europe | 21 | |
| 2091646655 | kowtow | formal recognition of the Chinese emperor's authority, where representatives from tribute states would present gifts and engage in a formal bowing ceremony | 22 | |
| 2091647019 | Neo-Confucianism | a response by the Confucians to the dominance of the Daoists and Buddhists, severe Confucianism | 23 | |
| 2091647257 | seppuku | ritual suicide/disembowelment in Japan (hara-kiri); demonstrating courage and restoring family honor | 24 | |
| 2091647553 | shariah | Islamic law | 25 | |
| 2091647828 | umma | community of the faithful within Islam; creating political unity | 26 | |
| 2091648171 | Austronesian | a large language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. | 27 | |
| 2091648409 | syncretism | attempt to merge disparate traditions or practices and combine them with another tradition. (religion also) | 28 | |
| 2091648631 | chinampas | known as floating gardens, small, rectangle-shapes area of fertile arable land used for agriculture in the Xochimilco region of the Basin of Mexico | 29 | |
| 2091648755 | mita | Mandatory public service by society in ancient South America. During the Inca empire, public service was required in public works projects such as the building of road and military services | 30 | |
| 2091649154 | Quechua | the language of the Inca empire, now spoken in the Andes highlands from southern Colombia to Chile | 31 |
