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| 5814680697 | Buddhism | came to china over the silk roads. It is a religion that desires to eliminate all distracting passion and reach nirvana | 0 | |
| 5814680698 | Daoism | Chinese philosophy with origins in the Zhou dynasty; it is associated with legendary philosopher Laozi, and it called for a policy of noncompetition | 1 | |
| 5814680699 | Equal field system | Chinese system during the Tang dynasty in which the goal was to ensure an equitable distribution of land | 2 | |
| 5814680700 | Grand canal | One of the world's largest waterworks projects before modern times | 3 | |
| 5814680701 | Hangzhou | Capital of the Southern Song dyansty | 4 | |
| 5814680702 | Nara Japan | Centered on the city of Nara, that was the highest point of Chinese Influence | 5 | |
| 5814680703 | Neo-Confucianism | Philosophy that attempted to merge certain basic elements of Confucian and Buddhist thought | 6 | |
| 5814680704 | Nirvana | Buddhist concept of a state of spiritual perfection and enlightenment in which distracting passions are eliminated | 7 | |
| 5814680705 | Porcelain | Lighter, thinner and adaptable | 8 | |
| 5814680706 | Samurai | A Japanese warrior | 9 | |
| 5814680707 | Shogun | Japanese military leader who ruled in place of the emperor | 10 | |
| 5814680708 | Song dynasty | It was marked by an increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan society | 11 | |
| 5814680709 | Tang dynasty | An imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty | 12 | |
| 5814680710 | Uighurs | Turkish tribe | 13 | |
| 5814680711 | Abbasid dynasty | Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reached its peak under Harun al-Rashid | 14 | |
| 5814680712 | Abu-Bakr | First caliph after the death of Muhammad | 15 | |
| 5814680713 | Allah | God of the monotheistic religion of Islam | 16 | |
| 5814680714 | Bedouin | Nomadic Arabic tribespeople | 17 | |
| 5814680715 | Caliph | "Deputy," Islamic leader after the death of Muhammad | 18 | |
| 5814680716 | dar al-Islam | The "house of Islam," a term for the Islamic world | 19 | |
| 5814680717 | Five Pillars of Islam | The foundations of Islam: 1. Profession of faith 2. prayer 3. fasting during Ramadan 4. almsgiving 5. pilgrimage or hajj | 20 | |
| 5814680718 | hadith | a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad that, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran. | 21 | |
| 5814680719 | hajj | Pilgrimage to Mecca | 22 | |
| 5814680720 | hijra | Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Medina in 622, which is the beginning point of the Islamic calendar and is considered to mark the beginning of the Islamic faith | 23 | |
| 5814680721 | Islam | Monotheistic religion announced by the prophet Muhammad; influenced by Judaism and Christianity, Muhammad was considered the final prophet because the earlier religions had not seen the entire picture | 24 | |
| 5814680722 | jihad | a war or struggle against unbelievers. | 25 | |
| 5814680723 | jizya | Tax in Islamic empires that was imposed on non-Muslims | 26 | |
| 5814680724 | Ka'aba | main shrine in Mecca, goal of Muslims embarking on the hajj | 27 | |
| 5814680725 | madrasas | Islamic institutions of higher education that originated in the tenth century | 28 | |
| 5814680726 | Muhammad | Prophet of Islam | 29 | |
| 5814680727 | Muslim | A follower of Islam | 30 | |
| 5814680728 | Quran | Islamic holy book that is believed to contain the divine revelations of Allah as presented to Muhammad | 31 | |
| 5814680729 | sakk | Letters of credit that were common in the medieval Islamic banking world | 32 | |
| 5814680730 | sharia | The Islamic holy law, drawn up by theologians form the Quran and accounts of Muhammad's life | 33 | |
| 5814680731 | Shia | Islamic minority in opposition to the Sunni majority; their belief is that leadership should reside in the line descended from Ali | 34 | |
| 5814680732 | Sufi | Islamic mystics who placed more emphasis on emotion and devotion than on strict adherence to rules |  | 35 |
| 5814680733 | Sunni | "Traditionalists," the most popular branch of Islam; Sunnis believe in the legitimacy of the early caliphs, compared with the Shiite belief that only a descendant of Ali can lead | 36 | |
| 5814680734 | ulama | Islamic officials, scholars who shaped public policy in accordance with the Quran and the Sharia | 37 | |
| 5814680735 | umma | Islamic term for the "community of the faithful" | 38 | |
| 5814680736 | Ummayad dynasty | Arabic dynasty, with its capital at Damascus, that was marked by a tremendous period of expansion to Spain in the west and India in the east |  | 39 |
| 5814680737 | Melaka (Malacca) | Southeast Asian kingdom that was predominantly Islamic |  | 40 |
| 5814680738 | Axum | African kingdom centered in Ethiopia that became an early and lasting center of Coptic Christianity |  | 41 |
| 5814680739 | caste system | class structure that is determined by birth. | 42 | |
| 5814680740 | dhows | Indian, Persian, and Arab ships, one hundred to four hundred tons, that sailed and traded throughout the Indian Ocean basin |  | 43 |
| 5814680741 | Srivijaya | Southeast Asian kingdom, based on the island of Sumatra, that used a powerful navy to dominate trade | 44 | |
| 5814680742 | Byzantine Empire | Long-lasting empire centered at Constantinople; it grew out of the end of the Roman empire, carried the legacy of Roman greatness, and was the only classical society to survive into the early modern age; it reached its early peak during the reign of Justinian | 45 | |
| 5814680743 | caesaropapism | Concept relating to the mixing of political and religious authority, as with the Roman emperors, that was central to the church-versus-state controversy in medieval Europe | 46 | |
| 5814680744 | Corpus iuris civilis | Body of the Civil Law, the Byzantine emperor Justinian's attempt to codify all Roman law | 47 | |
| 5814680745 | Greek fire | Devastating incendiary weapon used mainly at sea by Byzantine forces in the 7th and 8th CE | 48 | |
| 5814680746 | Hagia Sofia | Massive Christian church constructed by the Byzantine emperor Justinian and later converted into a mosque | 49 | |
| 5814680747 | Magyars | Hungarian invaders who raided towns in Germany, Italy, and France in the ninth and tenth century | 50 | |
| 5814680748 | Odovacer | Germanic general who deposed Romulus Augustus in 476 CE, thus bringing about the end of the western Roman Empire | 51 | |
| 5814680749 | Patriarch | Leader of the Greek Orthodox church, which in 1054 officially split with the Pope and the Roman Catholic church | 52 | |
| 5814680750 | schism | Mutual excommunication of the Roman Pope and Byzantine Patriarch in 1054 over ritual, doctrinal and political differences between the two Christian chruches | 53 | |
| 5814680751 | Vikings | A group that raided the British Isles from their home at Vik in southern Norway | 54 | |
| 5814680752 | shamans | Religious specialists who possessed supernatural powers and who communicated with the gods and the spirits of nature | 55 | |
| 5814680753 | Yuan dynasty | Chinese dynasty that was founded by Genghis Khan's grandson | 56 | |
| 5814680754 | Temüjin | Mongol conqueror who later took the name Chinggis Khan, "universal ruler" | 57 | |
| 5814680755 | yurts | Tents used by nomadic Turkish and Mongol tribes | 58 | |
| 5814680756 | age grades | Bantu institution in which individuals of roughly the same age carried out communal tasks appropriate for that age | 59 | |
| 5814680757 | Bantu peoples | African peoples who originally lived in the area of present day Nigeria; | 60 | |
| 5814680758 | Great Zimbabwe | Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the 15th century | 61 | |
| 5814680759 | Mali empire | West African kingdom founded in the 13th century by Sundiata; it reached its peak during the reign of Mansa Masu | 62 | |
| 5814680760 | Sundiata | Founder of the Mali empire, also the inspiration for the Sundiata, an African literary and mythological work | 63 | |
| 5814680761 | Swahili | East African city-state society that dominated the coast from Mogadishu to Kilwa and was active in trade. Also a Bantu language of East Africa, or a member of a group who speaks this language | 64 | |
| 5814680762 | chivalry | European medieval code of conduct for knights based on loyalty and honor | 65 | |
| 5814680763 | Franciscans | An order of mendicants founded by St. Francis whose purpose was to live in poverty and serve the religious needs of their communities | 66 | |
| 5814680764 | Marco Polo | Italian merchant whose account of his travels to China and other lands became legendary | 67 | |
| 5814680765 | relics | Physical remains of saints or religious figures assembled by churches for veneration | 68 | |
| 5814680766 | reconquista | Crusade, ending in 1492, to drive the Islamic forces out of Spain | 69 | |
| 5814680767 | Saladin | Muslim leader and crusader who recaptures Jerusalem from the Christians | 70 | |
| 5814680768 | three estates | The three classes of European society, composed of the clergy #1, the aristocrats #2 and the common people #3 | 71 | |
| 5814680769 | Aztec empire | Central American empire constructed by the Mexica and expanded greatly during the 15th century during he reigns of Itzcoatl and Motecuzoma I | 72 | |
| 5814680770 | chinampa | Agricultural gardens used by Mexica (Aztecs) in which fertile muck from lake bottoms was dredged and built up into small plots | 73 | |
| 5814680771 | Iroquois | Eastern American Indian confederation made up of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca tribes | 74 | |
| 5814680772 | Maori | Indigenous people of New Zealand | 75 | |
| 5814680773 | Quetzalcóatl | Aztec god, the "feathered serpent," who was borrowed originally from the Toltecs; Quetzalcoatl was believed to have been defeated by another god and exiled, and he promised to return | 76 | |
| 5814680774 | quipu | Incan mnemonic aid comprised of different-colored strings and knots that served to record events in the absence of a written text | 77 | |
| 5814680775 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, later Mexico city | 78 | |
| 5814680776 | Teotihuacan | Central American society; its Pyramid of the Sun was the largest structure in Mesoamerica | 79 |
