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5910806466EgalitarianismBeilief that all people are equal (women=men)0
5910806467PastoralismAgriculture based on livestock1
5910806468Agricultural RevolutionIncreased technologic advancement in the 18 and 19 century in Europe2
5910806469DiffusionThe spreading of something more widely3
5910806470PatriarchalA society governed and controlled by men4
5910806471Characteristics of CivilizationsCities, government, religion, social structure, writing, art5
5910806472River Valley CivilizationAn ancient civilization that flourished on the Indus River from 2500-1500 BCE6
5910806473ConfusionismSystem of philosophical and ethic teachings founded by confucius7
5910806474LegalismExcessive adherence of law or formula8
5910806475DaoismA chiness pilosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu9
5910806476BuddhismA religion originated in India holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire with a goal of enlightenment10
5910806477HinduismA major religion of india fhat emphasizes freedom from the material world theough purification of identity11
5910806478Greek RationalismUndertanding the world through logical observation12
5910806479Roles of women/societyFaced with constant oppresiom of gender throughout the years13
5910806480Roles of SlavesBought and sold like an item, used for labor, less than14
5910806481Silk Road Technologiescamel, caravans, gunpowder, astrolabs, ships, compasses15
5910806482City-StatesA sovereign state that consists of their city and its independant society16
5910806483Bantu MigrationsMigrated from west africa to modern day nigeria, spreading out across the southern half of the continent 1000BCE-1700 ACE17
5929391032West-African Transporttraveled through desert on camels18
5929411393West-African Goodsgold, cotton cloth, metal ornaments, leather goods in exchange for copper, horses, salt, textiles, and beads19
5929427026Mansa Musafourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, very rich and had all the gold20
5929448187Roles of Merchantsa business person that bought and sold and transported goods across the silk roads21
5929480614Silk Road RoutesThe Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea.22
5929493751Important Commodities exchanged on the Silk Roadssilk, luxury goods, manufactured goods, blankets and rugs, agricultural crops23
5940319803China's influence/tributary statesThe tribute system , Chinese advisers, governing with Chinese practice, Chinese culture and learning24
5940463059Tributary systemAs china expands, they created a relationship with the new people and taught them what they knew, China rules and teaches, subjects trade and acknowledge china as their leader25
5940489665Foot bindingPainful, but associated esthetically with feminine beauty, delicate and elaborately decorated shoes to encase their bound feet26
5940605918QuaranThe central religious text of Islam27
5940605919JihadA struggle28
5940605920CaliphThe chief Muslim civil and religious ruler29
5940605921Similarities of MonotheismJudaism, Christianity, and Islam all believe in one God30
5940781880Impact of CrusadesThe kings authority increased and Europeans learned new things from the Muslims they encountered (increase of power and knowledge)31
5940803821Relationship between the Kievan Rus and ByzantinesThe Rus borrowed Greek orthodoxy from the Byzantines32
5940859158Mongol LeaderGhengis Kahn33
5940869174Mongol PeacePax Mongolica, Pax Romana: the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the mongol empire on social, cultural and economic scales34
5940921523Mongols Vs. Agricultural Societynomadic vs. settled, mongols did not farm but raided and traded with societies that did35
5941325194Mongol's Impact Regionsbriefly ruled modern day russia, china, korea, southeast asia, persia, india, the middle east and eastern Europe36
5941419776consequences of the black deathlarge population death, upheaval of a series of religious, social, and economical foundings37
5941493896Columbian Exchangecultural and biological exchanges between the old world and new world, exchange of plants animals and diseases38
5941516645Old World vs. New WorldEurope vs the Americas39
5941569105Peninsularesa spaniard born in spain40
5941607582creolea person of mixed european and black descent41
5941619030Middle Passageafrican slaves traded in the Triangular trade, the middle passage was the stage where millions of african slaves were shipped to the new world as part of the atlantic slave trade42
5941665423Encomienda Systemestablished in 1512 by the spanish to control and regulate American Indian Labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas.43

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