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| 7467625436 | Neo-Confucianism | The syncritic religion that combined Confucianism and Buddhism | 0 | |
| 7467625323 | Sufism | school of esoteric philosophy in Islam, which is based on the pursuit of spiritual truth as a definite goal to attain. In modern language it might also be referred to as Islamic spirituality or Islamic mysticism. | 1 | |
| 7467625330 | astrolabe | an instrument that was used to determine the altitude of objects (like the sun) in the sky. It was first used around 200 BC by astronomers in Greece. The astrolabe was replaced by the sextant | 2 | |
| 7467625333 | Aztec Empire | powerful Indian empire founded on Lake Texcoco (Mexico) | 3 | |
| 7467625338 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of the Roman Empire following collapse of western half of the old empire; retained Mediterranean culture; capital at Constantinople | 4 | |
| 7467625339 | caliph | Political, religious and militaristic leader of Islam | 5 | |
| 7467625344 | chinampas | known as floating gardens, small, rectangle-shapes area of fertile arable land used for agriculture in the Xochimilco region of the Basin of Mexico | 6 | |
| 7467625346 | Christian monks | a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. | 7 | |
| 7467625347 | civil service exam | All Chinese government official-to-be's had to pass this in order to prove themselves. Very rigorous, although once you passed, instant success was guaranteed. | 8 | |
| 7467625348 | Code of chivalry | The collective term for the social codes of knighthood that originated in France in the Middle Ages. It was based on brave, courteous and honourable behaviour - what came to be known as 'gentlemanly conduct.' | 9 | |
| 7467625349 | bushi-do | Based on principles of loyalty, courage and honor. Code of the samurai. | 10 | |
| 7467625351 | Crusade | series of military campaigns, where roman catholics tried to capture "holy land" from muslims, some were in Europe | 11 | |
| 7467625352 | Cuzco | capital city of the Incan Empire | 12 | |
| 7467625353 | daimyo | Warlord rulers who divided Japan into 300 little kingdoms | 13 | |
| 7467625358 | Feudalism | system where lords provided protection/aid to serfs in return for labor | 14 | |
| 7467625359 | manors | Plots of land owned by a lord/noble, little kingdoms. Each of these were self-sufficient | 15 | |
| 7467625360 | Five Pillars | religious duties of Muslims (confession of faith, fasting during Ramadan, zakat, hajj) | 16 | |
| 7467625362 | footbinding | This practice caused women intense physical pain and caused them to be confined to homes. | 17 | |
| 7467625364 | Genghis Khan | (1170s - 1227) from 1206 he was head of all Mongol tribes; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China and territories as far west as the Abbasid regions. successful military leader, united mongol tribes, was the founder of the mongol empire (1206-1368) | 18 | |
| 7467625365 | Golden Horde | one of four subdivisions of the Mongol Empire after Genghis Khan's death; territory covered much of present south-central Russia. a state established in Russia, one of the four kingdoms in the mongol empire | 19 | |
| 7467625367 | Great Schism | Divide of the Christian church into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church | 20 | |
| 7467625370 | Hagia Sophia | large church constructed in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian | 21 | |
| 7467625371 | hajj | Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca | 22 | |
| 7467625372 | Hanseatic League | organization of cities in N. Germany/Scandinavia for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance. a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669 | 23 | |
| 7467625380 | Ibn Battuta | Arab traveler/trader who commented on African traveling security, cities | 24 | |
| 7467625382 | Inca | A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest | 25 | |
| 7467625388 | junk | Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders. Played major roles in the Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula | 26 | |
| 7467625389 | Justinian Code | Compilation of Roman law | 27 | |
| 7467625391 | Khan | Mongol ruler | 28 | |
| 7467625392 | khanates | region ruled under a khan, divided kingdoms under the mongol empire | 29 | |
| 7467625398 | Kublai Khan | Grandson of Chinggis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established sinicized Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271 | 30 | |
| 7467625401 | Magna Carta | Great Charter issued by King John of England in 1215; confirmed feudal rights against monarchial claims; represented principle of mutual limits and obligations between rulers and feudal aristocracy. Nobles fed up with King John made him sign Great Charter (Magna Carta) that made sure king got approval of aristocracy before imposing taxes, etc, limited king's power | 31 | |
| 7467625403 | Mali | Country of western Africa; During the Middle Ages, Mali formed a huge territorial empire, noted as a center of Islamic study and as a trade route for gold. Its center was Timbuktu | 32 | |
| 7467625405 | manorialism | Organization of rural economy and society by three classes of manors: a lord's own land, serf holdings, and free peasant land | 33 | |
| 7467625407 | Mansa Musa | African King who made pilgrimage to Mecca, and gave out so much gold, that worth of gold dropped rapidly | 34 | |
| 7467625408 | Marco Polo | A Venetian trader that went and learned about China under Kublai Khan | 35 | |
| 7467625410 | Maya | Classic culture emerging in southern Mexico and Central American contemporary with Teotihuacán; extended over broad religion; featured monumental architecture, written language, calendrical and mathematical systems, highly developed religion. A native American group of people that lived in Central America | 36 | |
| 7467625412 | Mecca | The city is revered as the holiest site of Islam, and a pilgrimage to it is required of all Muslims who can afford to go. Religious Center of Islam, where Muslims pray towards, controlled by Umayyad | 37 | |
| 7467625413 | medieval | relating to the Middle Ages | 38 | |
| 7467625416 | Mesoamerica | The region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus | 39 | |
| 7467625423 | mita | Mandatory public service by society in ancient South America. During the Inca empire, public service was required in public works projects such as the building of road and military services | 40 | |
| 7467625427 | Monasticism | Ancient style of vowed religious life which typically includes community, prayer, common worship, silence, and labour. It is governed by a monastic rule, or way of life, which involves a choice to live apart from society and the world, and so to witness in a radical way to Jesus Christ | 41 | |
| 7467625428 | Mongol Peace | Pax Mongolica - Mongols brought peace to almost the entire Asian continent because they tolerated and encouraged diversity, especially religions | 42 | |
| 7467625433 | movable type | invented in Song Dynasty in the mid-eleventh century. Individual characters made of fired clay were assembled and glued onto a plate to create a printing block. Introduced in Europe in the 15th century | 43 | |
| 7467625437 | Champa | new strains of rice - led to population growth in Asia | 44 | |
| 7467625451 | Prince Shotoku | Important Japanese regent and scholar of the Confucianism, re instituted embassies to China, and adopted the Chinese calendar and court ranks. He wrote a constitution (stressed the acceptable behaviors of the people) and spread Buddhism around Japan | 45 | |
| 7467625456 | quipu | system of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system...could contain numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records. A record-keeping device of the Inca empire consisting of a series of variously colored strings attached to a base rope and knotted so as to encode information, used especially for accounting purposes | 46 | |
| 7467625462 | samurai | Japanese feudal military leaders, rough equivalent of Western knights. Warrior class, top during Shogunate | 47 | |
| 7467625465 | Seljuk Turks | major branch of the Oghuz turks, ruled parts of central asia and middle east (11-14 centuries). Invaded Byzantine Empire and caused them to ask the Pope for help. | 48 | |
| 7467625470 | Sharia | Islamic Law | 49 | |
| 7467625468 | serfdom | A person in bondage or servitude | 50 | |
| 7467625476 | Song | Chinese dynasty that united the entire country until 1127 and the southern portion until 1279, during which time northern China was controlled by the Juchen tribes | 51 | |
| 7467625481 | steppes | a vast semiarid grass-covered plain, found in southeast Europe and Mongolia | 52 | |
| 7467625488 | Taika Reforms | attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese- style emperor...also tried to make a professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army | 53 | |
| 7467625491 | Tenochtitlan | center of Aztec power, founded on marshy island in Lake Texcoco | 54 | |
| 7467625498 | Timbuktu | Port city of Mali; located just off the flood plain on the great bend in the Niger River. Biggest city in Mali Empire. It was center of great learning and art. | 55 | |
| 7467625503 | tribute | A system where people were forced to bow down (kowtow) to the Chinese and offering and payments to them before getting the right to trade with them. | 56 | |
| 7467625509 | Vikings | Scandinavian raiders | 57 | |
| 7467625514 | woodblock printing | It is a technique for printing used widely throughout East Asia and originating in the Tang Dynasty sometime between the mid-6th and late 9th centuries | 58 | |
| 7467625516 | Yuan dynasty | 1271 to 1368, also called the Mongol Dynasty. Period of Kublai Kahn and the Mongols dominance over China | 59 | |
| 7467625519 | Abbasid | (750 C.E.) The Sunni dynasty that overthrew the Umayyads as caliphs | 60 | |
| 7467625547 | Hagia Sophia | former Eastern Orthodox church converted to a mosque, now converted into a museum, in the Turkish city of Istanbul | 61 | |
| 7467625554 | secular | Not bound by any religious faction | 62 | |
| 7467625556 | unification | The joining of two or more groups | 63 | |
| 7467625569 | Ghana | Formed by 8th century by exchanging gold from the forests of west Africa for salt/dates from the Sahara or for goods from Mediterranean north Africa. Camels, were introduced tcreating better trade. By 3rd century C.E. it rose to power by taxing the salt and gold exchanged within its borders. 10th century, rulers had converted to Islam and were at its height of power. Almoravid armies invaded Ghana from north Africa (1076), the power was declining despite the kingdom's survival. 13th century, new states rose. | 64 | |
| 7467625572 | harem | living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | 65 |
