6805359198 | bantu | a group of Niger-Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa (including Swahili and Zulu) | 0 | |
6805359199 | Bedouins | nomadic peoples of the Arabian peninsula (pre-Islam) | 1 | |
6805359200 | the Black Death | also known as the Bubonic Plague, this epidemic spread throughout Afro-Eurasia, facilitated by trade | 2 | |
6805359201 | Buddhist Sects | primary examples: Jain, Chan, pure-land, Zen, | 3 | |
6805359202 | the Bushido Code | the code of honor and loyalty mandatory for all bushi and samurai in Japan | 4 | |
6805359203 | Caliphate | a form of Islamic government led by a caliph | 5 | |
6805359204 | Chinampa | the Aztec floating gardens | 6 | |
6805359205 | Chivalry | the code of loyalty and honor mandatory for knights in western European feudalism | 7 | |
6805359206 | Christendom | the Christian world as a whole | 8 | |
6805359207 | Civil Service Exam System | developed under Han China, was the system for determining the appointments of administrators based on knowledge rather than familial ties. | 9 | |
6805359208 | Conversion | exchanging your religious beliefs for another | 10 | |
6805359209 | Crusades | a series of religious wars led by Christians and Muslims in attempt to regain "the holy land" (Jerusalem) | 11 | |
6805359210 | Daimyo | warlord rulers of small states following civil war and disruption of the Ashikaga shogunate in Japanese feudalism | 12 | |
6805359211 | Dar al-Islam | an area of the world under the rule of Islam | 13 | |
6805359212 | Diffusion of scientific and technological traditions | the spread and commercialization of new technologies and innovations, facilitated by the trans-continental trade routes | 14 | |
6805359213 | Entrepot | a port of city center of trade | 15 | |
6805359214 | Feudalism/decentralized government | a system of government in which small estates were privately run with certain positions in a hierarchy, present in both Western Europe and Japan | 16 | |
6805359215 | Fiefs | an estate of land in a feudal system | 17 | |
6805359216 | Gentry | people of good social position, typically the well educated scholars in China | 18 | |
6805359217 | Grand Canal in China | built during the Sui dynasty, connected China and its waterways, facilitated trade | 19 | |
6805359218 | Guilds | sworn associations of people in the same business in Western Europe | 20 | |
6805359219 | Hajj | the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca | 21 | |
6805359220 | Hanseatic League | an organization of cities in northern Germany and southern Scandanavia, encouraged trade | 22 | |
6805359221 | Holy Roman Empire | The empire set up in western Europe following the coronation of Charlemagne as emperor in the year 800. It was created by the medieval papacy in an attempt to unite Christendom under one rule. | 23 | |
6805359222 | Khan/Khanates | the leader or form of leadership in the Mongol empire | 24 | |
6805359223 | Little Ice Age | a period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period | 25 | |
6805359224 | Magna Carta | charter issued by King John of England, protected feudal lords' power | 26 | |
6805359225 | Manorialism | a system of economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers during the Middle Ages | 27 | |
6805359226 | Mit'a | Mit'a was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire | 28 | |
6805359227 | monsoons | the seasonal winds that blew across the Indian subcontinent, facilitated trade | 29 | |
6805359228 | Neo-Confucianism | revived ancient Confucian scholar religion in the Song era of China | 30 | |
6805359229 | nobility | the group of people belonging to the noble class in a country, especially those with a hereditary or honorary title | 31 | |
6805359230 | Papacy | the class/groups of the Roman Catholic popes | 32 | |
6805359231 | quipu | the record keeping system of the Incas, a system of knotted strings | 33 | |
6805359232 | samurai | the mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders | 34 | |
6805359233 | serfdom | the state of being a serf or feudal laborer | 35 | |
6805359234 | sharia | Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet | 36 | |
6805359235 | Shia | the Islamic sect that supported Ali | 37 | |
6805359236 | Sufi | the Islamic mystics | 38 | |
6805359237 | Sultan | an Islamic leader in India in the Delhi Sultanate | 39 | |
6805359238 | Sunni | an Islamic sect the supported the Umayyad | 40 | |
6805359239 | Swahili | the culture/language of south-eastern coast of Africa | 41 | |
6805359240 | terrace farming | a method of farming in which one cuts a groove along the side of a large slope to increase irrigation; used by the Incan empire | 42 | |
6805359241 | tribute system | the system in which a large empire controls a state, but leaves it be as long as the state pays a large sum of money and admits submission | 43 | |
6805359242 | Ulama | the orthodox religious scholars of Islam | 44 | |
6805359243 | Vassals | members of the military elite in western European feudalism | 45 | |
6805359244 | Vikings | the Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th-11th centuries. | 46 |
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