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| 100092967 | bubonic plague | Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people | 0 | |
| 100092968 | caliph | the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | 1 | |
| 100092969 | chinampas | floating gardens | 2 | |
| 100092970 | crusaders | Christian warriors sent to regain the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from the Muslims that controlled | 3 | |
| 100092971 | Dar al-Islam | ... | 4 | |
| 100092972 | empress wu | She led the Tang Dynasty (625-705 AD); Only women emperor of China; powerful and cruel, along with talented and intelligent | 5 | |
| 100092973 | feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 6 | |
| 100092974 | five pillars of islam | true Muslims were expected to follow (principle of Salvation): belief in Allah, pray 5 times a day, giving of alms, fasting during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime | 7 | |
| 100092975 | foot binding | practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 8 | |
| 100092976 | genghis kahn | 1162-1227. Leader and founder of Mongol tribes of Asia. Ruled from 1206-1227. Occupied most of Asia during reign. | 9 | |
| 100092977 | ibn battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. (p. 373) | 10 | |
| 100092978 | aztec empire | lead by emperor Montezume the Aztecs originally defeated the spainish but the spainish came back and defeated them through war and disease | 11 | |
| 100092979 | mayan empire | lived in southern Mexico, had the only written language in America prior to European explorers, ate mainly corn | 12 | |
| 100092980 | pax mongolica | -Mongol Peace-used to describe the eased communication and commerce the unified administration helped to create | 13 | |
| 100092981 | indian ocean trade | Large amounts of rade happened in this body of water between Arab, Persian, Turkish, Indian, African, Chinese, and Europe merchants. Particularly in the postclassical period 9600-1450) | 14 | |
| 100092982 | monsoon system | The weather system that affected the sea trade routes in the Indian Ocean. Summer winds blew from the southwest. Winter winds blew from the northeast. | 15 | |
| 100092983 | muhammad | the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632) | 16 | |
| 100092984 | neo-confucianism | term that describes the resurgence of Confucianism and the influence of Confucian scholars during the T'ang Dynasty; a unification of Daoist or Buddhist metaphysics with Confucian pragmatism | 17 | |
| 100092986 | quipu | an arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 18 | |
| 100092989 | inca empire | Largest Empire ever built in South America; territory extended 2,500 miles from north to south and embraced almost all of modern Peru, most of Ecuador, much of Bolivia, and parts of Chile and Argentina; maintained effective control from the early 15th century until the coming of Europeans in the early 16th century. As the most powerful people of Andean America, the Inca dominated Andean society until the coming of Europeans; spoke Quechua language. | 19 | |
| 100092991 | sharia law | The system of Islamic law, sometimes called Qu'ranic law. Unlike most Western systems of law that are based on legal precedence, Sharia is based on varying degrees of interpretation of the Qu'ran. | 20 | |
| 100092993 | shintoism | Religion located in Japan and related to Buddhism. Shintoism focuses particularly on nature and ancestor worship. | 21 | |
| 100092996 | shogun | Supreme military commander | 22 | |
| 100092999 | sinification | Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions; typical of Korea and Japan, less typical of Vietnam | 23 | |
| 100093001 | sufi | A Muslim who seeks to achieve direct contact with God through mystical means | 24 | |
| 100093004 | sunni | A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 25 | |
| 100093006 | trans-sharan trade | ... | 26 | |
| 100093009 | ulama | the body of mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community | 27 | |
| 100093011 | zheng he | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 28 | |
| 100093014 | orthodox | in agreement with established or generally accepted beliefs or ways of doing things | 29 | |
| 100093016 | patriarch | ... | 30 |
