3676439125 | Sikhism | a disciple, or a learner (one of the youngest amongst the major world religions, is a monotheistic religion) | 0 | |
3676443804 | Shia | one of the two main branches of Islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three Sunni caliphs and regards Ali, the fourth caliph, as Muhammad's first true successor. | 1 | |
3676444853 | Sunni | one of the two main branches of Islam, commonly described as orthodox, and differing from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna and in its acceptance of the first three caliphs. | 2 | |
3676448106 | Atlantic Slave Trade | the business or process of procuring, transporting, and selling slaves, especially black Africans to the New World prior to the mid-19th century. | 3 | |
3676450496 | Martin Luther | A German professor of theology, priest, former monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Disagreed with the Catholic church system | 4 | |
3676452584 | Jesuits | member of a Roman Catholic religious order (Society of Jesus) founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534. | 5 | |
3676453749 | Wahhabi Movement | Islamic religious movement/rebellion to restore pure monotheistic worship | 6 | |
3676460199 | Cofradias | Catholic laymen in Mexico and Central America responsible for the material care of religious images, pilgrimages, and ceremonies. | 7 | |
3676461308 | Aurangezeb | Ruler of the Mughal Empire. Ruler that ruined the Mughal Empire | 8 | |
3676464153 | Devshirme | The collecting of young Christain boys and training them to be Islamic warriors (Ottoman Empire) | 9 | |
3676479654 | Janissaries | a member of the Turkish infantry forming the Sultan's guard between the 14th and 19th centuries. | 10 | |
3676467147 | Mercantilism | the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. | 11 | |
3676468767 | Peninsulares | European natives now living in Central America | 12 | |
3676469740 | Mesitzo | the offspring of a Spaniard and an American Indian. | 13 | |
3676472612 | Mulattoes | a person with one white and one black parent. | 14 | |
3676474720 | Zheng He | Chinese explorer known for his 8 explorations Castrated | 15 | |
3676476426 | Vasco De Gama | Portuguese explorer. | 16 | |
3676477529 | Quipu | Ican way of keeping track of certain things String with beads on it | 17 | |
3676480825 | Mita | was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire. | 18 | |
3676483329 | Andean Christian | Form of Christianity in the region of the Andes (South America) | 19 | |
3679113305 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim Traveler and trader | 20 | |
3679113306 | Camel Caravans | large covered vehicle for conveying passengers, goods etc. | 21 | |
3679114715 | monsoons | a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain | 22 | |
3679114716 | Choke Point | a point of congestion or blockage. | 23 | |
3679116906 | Trans-Saharan Trade | 24 | ||
3679119834 | Indian Ocean Sea Roads | 25 | ||
3679153868 | Srivijaya Kingdom | Southeast Asian kingdom, based on the island of Sumatra that used a powerful navy to dominate trade. significance: Used Maritime trade to garner power. | 26 | |
3679151922 | Silk Roads | 27 | ||
3679153869 | Palembang | Choke Point in South Asia | 28 | |
3679155258 | Swahili Language | Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries. | 29 | |
3679157430 | Mecca | Birth place of Mohammad and the Islamic religion | 30 | |
3679158306 | Sharia | Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet | 31 | |
3679158307 | Sufis | a Muslim ascetic and mystic (Muslim teacher) | 32 | |
3679158308 | Sultans | a Muslim sovereign. | 33 | |
3679159357 | Cordoba | 34 | ||
3679160394 | Ulama | a body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology. | 35 | |
3679160395 | Bedouins | a nomadic Arab of the desert. | 36 | |
3679161819 | Cosmopolitan | many different cultures and religions in one place | 37 | |
3679161820 | Umma | the whole community of Muslims bound together by ties of religion. | 38 | |
3679164127 | Caliph/Caliphate | Government under a caliph. A caliph is a spiritual leader of Islam who claims succession from Muhammad. The word stems from the Arabic khalifa meaning successor | 39 | |
3679165526 | Imams | the person who leads prayers in a mosque. | 40 | |
3679167463 | Jihad | (among Muslims) a war or struggle against unbelievers. | 41 | |
3679167464 | Anatolia | Modern day Turkey | 42 | |
3679169070 | Serfdom | The status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. | 43 | |
3679169071 | Crusades | a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. | 44 | |
3679170187 | Feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe | 45 | |
3679171346 | Guild | a medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power. | 46 | |
3679171347 | Aristotle | Greek philosopher and scientist Teacher of Alexander the Great and student of Plato. Famous for his writings on physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. | 47 | |
3679172536 | Chu Nom | logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses the standard set of classical Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, | 48 | |
3679172537 | Hangul | The Korean alphabet, | 49 | |
3679173926 | Bureaucracy | A system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives. | 50 | |
3679173927 | Civil Service Exam | Test/Exam taken in China to become a person of higher power | 51 | |
3679175254 | Dynastic Cycle | 1. New ruler in China under the Mandate of Heaven 2. China achieves wealth 3. Population increases 4. Corruption becomes rampant in the imperial court, and the empire begins to enter decline and instability. 5. Natural disaster(s) 6. famine and Civil wars breakout 7. Ruler loses Mandate of Heaven 8. he population decreases because of the violence. 9. China goes through a warring states period. 10. One state emerges victorious. 11. The state starts a new empire. 12. The empire gains the Mandate of Heaven. (The cycle repeats itself.) | 52 | |
3679176816 | Bushido | the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai. | 53 | |
3679176817 | Tribute System | The network of trade and foreign relations between China and its tributaries that helped to shape much of East Asian affairs. | 54 | |
3679196058 | Foot Binding | 55 | ||
3679197963 | Mongol Empire | Largest empire 12.74 square miles | 56 | |
3679199201 | Mongol Military Strategies | Different ways to conquer and approach conquering an empire were used and shown to young warriors to use in battle | 57 | |
3679199202 | Khanate | Different regions of areas to the empire. | 58 | |
3679200391 | The Black Death | The plague | 59 | |
3679200392 | Sack of Baghdad | 1258: overthrown by the Mongols | 60 | |
3679201605 | Khublai Khan | 61 | ||
3679345025 | Mongol Trading Circuit | Trade routes the Mongols used | 62 |
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