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| 6410279085 | Allah | Arabic word for God | 0 | |
| 6410280519 | Astrolabe | An instrument invented by Muslim sailors that is used to determine direction by figuring out the position of the stars. | 1 | |
| 6410280520 | Caliph | A supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government | 2 | |
| 6410282607 | Dar al- Islam | an Arabic term that means the "house of Islam" and that refers to lands under Islamic rule | 3 | |
| 6410284490 | Five Pillars | The basic tenets of Islam: Allah is the only god and Muhammad is his prophet; pray to Allah five times a day facing Mecca; fast during the month of Ramadan; pay alms for the relief of the weak and the poor; take a hajj to Mecca | 4 | |
| 6410285957 | Hadith | A tradition relating the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad; next to the Quran, the most important basis for Islamic law. | 5 | |
| 6410285958 | Hajj | A pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims | 6 | |
| 6410287401 | Harem | living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household | 7 | |
| 6410287402 | Hijrah | This is the name for Muhammad's journey out of Mecca. | 8 | |
| 6410288690 | Jihad | The Muslim word for "struggle" especially when trying to follow the will of Allah. | 9 | |
| 6410288691 | Ka'aba | A black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine | 10 | |
| 6410290569 | Mamluks | Under the Islamic system of military slavery, Turkic military slaves who formed an important part of the armed forces of the Abbasid Caliphate of the ninth and tenth centuries. Mamluks eventually founded their own state, ruling Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) | 11 | |
| 6410290570 | Minaret | A distinctive feature of mosque architecture, a tower from which the faithful are called to worship by a muezzin, or crier five times a day | 12 | |
| 6410290571 | Mosque | A Muslim place of worship | 13 | |
| 6410292220 | Muslim | a believer or follower of Islam | 14 | |
| 6410292221 | People of the Book | the name for Jews and Christians for whom the Muslims had religious tolerance; called this because each religion had a holy book with teachings similar to that of the Qur'an | 15 | |
| 6410294098 | Quran | Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam. | 16 | |
| 6410294099 | Ramadan | the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. | 17 | |
| 6410295420 | Shariah | The body of law that governs Muslim society | 18 | |
| 6410295421 | Shi'ite | A group of Islamic religion that believes that its religious leader should be chosen based on heredity. | 19 | |
| 6410297244 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 20 | |
| 6410298908 | Sunni | "Traditionalists," the most popular branch of Islam; Sunnis believe in the legitimacy of the early caliphs, compared to the Shiite belief that only a descendant of Ali can lead. | 21 | |
| 6410340365 | Umma | The term for all Muslims as a community. | 22 | |
| 6410340366 | Bakufu | A military government established in Japan after the Gempei Wars; the emperor became a figurehead, while real power was concentrated in the military, including the samurai | 23 | |
| 6410340367 | Bushi | the warrior; Japanese word for the Samurai | 24 | |
| 6410341944 | Bushido | "the way of the warrior"; Japanese word for the Samurai life ; Samurai moral code was based on loyalty, chivalry, martial arts, and honor until the death | 25 | |
| 6410341945 | Daimyo | A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai; warlord but not as powerful as a shogun. | 26 | |
| 6410344066 | Flying Money | Chinese credit instrument that provided credit vouchers to merchants to be redeemed at the end of the voyage; reduced danger of robbery; early form of currency | 27 | |
| 6410344067 | Footbinding | 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 | 28 | |
| 6410346289 | Gempei Wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira. | 29 | |
| 6410346290 | Junks | Large Chinese sailing ships especially designed for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song dynasties | 30 | |
| 6410346291 | Kowtow | a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 31 | |
| 6410349987 | 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 | 32 | |
| 6410410740 | Samurai | Literally 'those who serve,' the hereditary military elite in Feudal Japan as well as during the Tokugawa Shogunate. | 33 | |
| 6410619373 | Scholar-gentry | Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China. | 34 | |
| 6410619374 | Seppuku | form of ceremonial suicide of defeated or disloyal samurai to avoid dishonor | 35 | |
| 6410621879 | Serf | A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | 36 | |
| 6410621880 | Shinto | A Japanese religion whose followers believe that all things in the natural world are filled with divine spirits | 37 | |
| 6410624248 | Shogun | In feudal Japan, a noble similar to a duke. They were the military commanders and the actual rulers of Japan for many centuries while the Emperor was a powerless spiritual figure. | 38 | |
| 6410624249 | Shogunate | The japanese system of centralized government under a shogun, who exercised actual power while the emperor was reduced to a figurehead. | 39 | |
| 6410626368 | Tea Ceremony | An ancient ritual for preparing and serving and drinking tea, practiced by the Samurai to enhance concentration and self- control. | 40 | |
| 6410626369 | Tribute | Money paid for protection | 41 | |
| 6410626370 | Chivaly | A complete set of ideals that demanded knights to fight bravely in defense of God, his lord, and his chosen lady The code of honorable conduct for knights. | 42 | |
| 6410629144 | Fuedalism | a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king, in exchange for thier loyalty, military service and protection of of the people who live on the land | 43 | |
| 6410629145 | Fief | land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service | 44 | |
| 6410632945 | Gothic architecture | Architecture of the twelfth-century Europe, featuring stained-glass windows, flying buttresses, tall spires, and pointed arches | 45 | |
| 6410632946 | investure | Symbol and the right to own a fief | 46 |
