3710597149 | Dar al Islam | People unified under the muslim faith | 0 | |
3710599157 | Samurai | warriors of Japan; dedicated to Daimyo | 1 | |
3710600590 | Tribute payment | countries under the power of the Ottoman empire had to pay the government through taxes | 2 | |
3710602712 | Tokugawa Shogunate | last feudal Japanese government | 3 | |
3710605038 | Feudal Manors | social structure that is similar in Japan and Europe. Ranking high individuals to low. | 4 | |
3710608026 | Ghana, Mali, and Songhai | Sudanic Kingdoms in West Africa made rich by gold-salt trade | 5 | |
3710608027 | Muhammed | Islamic political leader | 6 | |
3710610297 | Gutenberg Press | Helped spread ideas of renaissance and reformation | 7 | |
3710612868 | Sugar | Primary crop grown on caribbean plantations | 8 | |
3710612869 | Peter The Great | Leader that westernized Russia | 9 | |
3710614267 | Zheng He | Led voyages to build China's prestige in the Indian Ocean | 10 | |
3710617662 | Pax Mongolica | Time of secure trade routes across Eurasia | 11 | |
3710617663 | Bubonic plague | Spread rapidly along trade routes | 12 | |
3710622915 | Indentured servitude | a labor system where people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years. It was widely employed in the 18th century in the British colonies in North America and elsewhere. | 13 | |
3710622916 | Renaissance | revival of learning and art in europe starting in the 1400's | 14 | |
3710624690 | Scholar-gentry | landowning class in China; produced government employees | 15 | |
3710626135 | Caravel | small, easily maneuverable trade ship used by Spain and Portugal | 16 | |
3710627190 | Ming Dynasty | sponsored Zheng He's voyages, but then suddenly stopped exploration | 17 | |
3710627191 | Mansa Musa | A 14th century ruler who is best known for giving away so much gold as he traveled from Mali to Mecca for the hajj that he set off a major round of inflation, seriously affecting economies all along the long-distance trade routes | 18 | |
3710629127 | Caliph | A person acting in Muhammad's place after his death; leader of islam; islamic political leader | 19 | |
3710633124 | Devshirme | "blood tax" used by the Ottomans to recruit soilders | 20 | |
3710635817 | Gunpowder Empires | An age of time where almost all powerful states used guns to build control/attack (included Russia, Ming and Qing, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, the Safavid and the Mughal empire) | 21 | |
3710643099 | Neo-Confucianism | Arose as a response to the spread of Buddhism in China | 22 | |
3710643100 | Peninsularis | Spanish-born spaniard residing in the New world or the spanish east indies | 23 | |
3710661602 | Kublai Khan | khan during the chinese Yuan dynasty | 24 | |
3710661603 | Khan | mongol ruler | 25 | |
3710669634 | Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. | 26 | |
3710669635 | Humanism | Renaissance movement whose followers studied classical (Greek/Roman) texts and focused on human achievements and potential. | 27 | |
3710670957 | Capitalism | Economic system based on private ownership | 28 | |
3710680092 | Magna Carta | written to protect the rights of nobles in England | 29 | |
3710682969 | Mandate of Heaven | responsible for maintaining harmony between humanity and heaven | 30 | |
3710686317 | Junks | Large Chinese trade ships | 31 | |
3710686318 | Incas | Major Andean civilizations of the post classical era | 32 | |
3710686319 | Shinto | Traditional Japanese belief based on veneration of nature and ancestors | 33 | |
3710698859 | Yuan | Chinese dynasty ruled by mongols | 34 | |
3710735339 | Vikings | Expanded throughout Northern Europe with their sea-faring strength | 35 | |
3710737612 | Viceroy | A spanish colonial governor | 36 | |
3710746756 | Encomienda | Grants of land and native laborers in spanish colonies | 37 | |
3710759936 | 95 Theses | Luther's complaints against the catholic church | 38 | |
3710761156 | Crusades | Wars that led to the increased cultural diffusion between europe and the East | 39 | |
3710774202 | Chinampas | Aztec agricultural innovation of floating gardens | 40 | |
3710775493 | Polytheism | The belief in several deities | 41 | |
3710794554 | Creole | Full blooded Spanish, but born in the Americas | 42 | |
3710796138 | Manchus | Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire | 43 | |
3710796139 | Enlightenment | Movement that applied reason to understand society, led to many revolutions | 44 | |
3710811563 | Absolute monarchy | monarch has absolute control among his or her people | 45 | |
3710812843 | Vodun | Syncretic belief system in the caribbean | 46 | |
3710821885 | China | Absorbed most of the world's silver | 47 | |
3710821886 | Code of Bushido | fidelity, politeness, virility, and simplicity | 48 | |
3710821915 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern Part of the Roman empire | 49 | |
3710823436 | Chattel slavery | People bought and sold as property | 50 | |
3710825865 | Scientific Revolution | Major change in scientific thought during the 16th century which believed careful observation and questioning of tradition were important. | 51 | |
3710827924 | Columbian Exchange | Biological exchange between the eastern and western hemispheres | 52 | |
3710833817 | Mulatto | African and White ancestry | 53 | |
3710833818 | Bantu Migrations | created cultural and linguistic ties in sub saharan Africa | 54 | |
3710859552 | Mita | Southern American mandatory labor system, exploited by Spanish | 55 | |
3710859553 | Sufis | Mystics who spread Islam into India and Southeast Asia | 56 | |
3710874949 | Mercantilism | Economic system in which countries try to increase their wealth in two ways: (1) Obtain as much gold and silver as possible; (2) Sell more goods than they buy. Economic policy focusing on gold, silver, and colonies as wealth | 57 | |
3710887000 | Serfs | Peasant legally bound to their land | 58 | |
3710895422 | Eastern Orthodox | Branch of Christianity in Byzantine empire, spread to Russia | 59 | |
3710897285 | Justinian's code | Byzantine law code influenced by Roman tradition | 60 | |
3710904366 | Foot binding | Practice that inhibited upper class women in post-classical china | 61 | |
3710908326 | Japan | Mongols failed to conquer this region | 62 | |
3710934272 | Ibn Battuta | Muslim traveler and legal scholar from Morocco | 63 | |
3710937855 | Quipu | Incan form of record keeping, consisting of series of knots | 64 | |
3710937856 | Mongols | nomads from asia that took conquered china, the middle east, russia, and india. Failed to conquer japan and Europe | 65 | |
3710952441 | Ottoman Empire | Sunni Kingdom that conquered the Byzantines and formed in modern day Turkey | 66 | |
3710959172 | Mosque | Place of prayer for muslims | 67 | |
3710972807 | Jesuits | Catholic missionaries sent to Asia and the Americas | 68 | |
3710974634 | Smallpox | decimated the native population in the Americas | 69 | |
3710978036 | Swahili city-states | Trade centers on the east african coast (Zanj); people who provided a very important link for long distance trade. Not united politically but great deal of cultural diversity | 70 | |
3710981120 | Safavid Empire | Shia kingdom in modern day Iran | 71 | |
3710989731 | Flying money | Paper currency developed by the Song dynasty | 72 | |
3711030850 | Nicolas Copernicus | Argued that Earth revolved around the sun | 73 | |
3711044203 | Maize and Potatoes | Crops that increased Europe and Asia's populations | 74 | |
3711052082 | Battle of Tours | 75 | ||
3711052083 | Shogun | Held political power in feudal Japan | 76 | |
3711053546 | Sikhism | Syncretic faith blending elements of Hinduism and Islam | 77 | |
3711055864 | Champa | Fast-growing rice from Vietnam, caused economic pop/boom in China | 78 | |
3711055865 | Mestizo | Person of European and native american decent | 79 | |
3711057263 | patriarchy | 80 | ||
3711580627 | Golden Horde | Mongol rulers of Russia | 81 | |
3711592854 | Animism | Traditional religion in Northern America & Sub-Saharan Africa | 82 | |
3717284775 | Mass Migrations | whenever a significant number of people leave one area and migrate to another, change occurs for both the land that they left as well as their destination. | 83 | |
3717288768 | Imperial conquests | If an empire (or later a country) deliberately conquers territory outside its borders, significant changes tend to follow for both the attackers and the attacked. | 84 | |
3717293132 | Cross-cultural trade and exchange | widespread contact among various areas of the world brings not only new goods but new ideas and customs to all areas involved. | 85 | |
3717298223 | Islam | began in the 7th century and spread rapidly throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, Europe, and Southeast Asia. | 86 | |
3717312809 | Two major sea-trading routes | those of the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean-linked the newly created Muslim Empire together, and Arabic sailors come to dominate the trade. | 87 | |
3717321436 | Ghana | By the 700's, a farming people called the Soninke had formed an empire that they called... that was growing rich from taxing the goods that traders carried through their territory. Most important asset was gold | 88 | |
3717328059 | Mali | During the 11th century, the Almoravids, a muslim group from northern Africa, conquered Ghana. Dominated West Africa Based its wealth on gold First great leader: Sundiata: who defeated kingdoms around Mali, and also proved to be an effective administrator | 89 | |
3717335545 | Timbuktu | Mali's capital city became a world center of trade, education and sophistication | 90 | |
3717358660 | Pope Urban II | Called for Christian crusades in 1095 with the urgent message that knights from the western Europe must defend the Christian Middle East, especially the Holy lands of the eastern mediterranean, from Turkish Muslim invasions. | 91 | |
3717366661 | Italian cities: Genoa and Venice | took advantage of their geographic location to arrange for water transportation for knights across the Mediterranean to the holy lands. | 92 | |
3728962615 | Indulgences | The Catholic Church's grants of salvation for money in the 1500s, and was part of the growing corruption of the church; A pardon (or forgiveness) for a sin that was bought from a priest | 93 | |
3745564693 | Babur | founded the Mughal empire, claimed to be a descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan (1526) | 94 | |
3745564694 | Akbar | the grandson of Babur, who brought the height of the Mughal empire. Also expanded his empire to control much of the subcontinent. | 95 | |
3745576891 | Mughal emire | an empire that that was a mixture of Mongol and Turkish peoples from Central Asia, which dominated India until the early 1700s | 96 | |
3745646745 | Sulimen | ruled the Ottomans as the empire reached the height of its power. The Ottomans controlled much of the water traffic between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean sea | 97 |
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