5372590475 | Trans-Saharan trade | requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant | ![]() | 0 |
5372590476 | Eurasian Silk Road | ![]() | 1 | |
5372590477 | Indian Ocean Sea Lanes | ![]() | 2 | |
5372590478 | Mediterranean Sea Lanes | ![]() | 3 | |
5372590479 | caravanserai | an inn with a central courtyard for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa | 4 | |
5372590480 | compass | an instrument that points to magnetic north | 5 | |
5372590481 | astrolabe | an instrument that measures the distance of stars, which can calculate longitude and latitude | 6 | |
5372590482 | Credit | an entry recording a sum recieved | 7 | |
5372590483 | Checks (saqqs) | 8 | ||
5372590484 | Bills of exchange | a written order to a person requiring the person to make a specified payment to the signatory or to a named payee | 9 | |
5372590485 | Banking houses | 10 | ||
5372590486 | Monetization | convert into or express in the form of currency | 11 | |
5372590487 | Paper Money | money in the form of banknotes | 12 | |
5372590488 | Luxury goods | silk, cotton, porcelain, spices, precious metals, gems, slaves, exotic animals | 13 | |
5372590489 | Hanseatic League | a powerful economic and defensive alliance that left a great cultural and architectural heritage | 14 | |
5372590490 | Viking longships | ![]() | 15 | |
5372590491 | Camel saddle | ![]() | 16 | |
5372590492 | Bedouins | a nomadic Arab of the desert | 17 | |
5372590493 | Everything on ISLAM | 18 | ||
5372590494 | Muhammad | Founder of Islam | 19 | |
5372590495 | 5 pillars | 1. Shahadah - sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith. 2. Salat - performing ritual prayers in the proper way five times each day. 3. Zakat - paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy. 4. Sawm - fasting during the month of Ramadan. 5. Hajj - pilgrimage to Mecca. | 20 | |
5372590496 | Sunni | leaders that only needed to follow the examples and the teaching of the Prophet | 21 | |
5372590497 | Shi'a | leaders needed to be a relative of the prophet | 22 | |
5372590498 | sharia | the body of islam law | 23 | |
5372590499 | mosque | a Muslim place of worship | 24 | |
5372590500 | jihad | a war or struggle between unbelievers | 25 | |
5372590501 | caliph | the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad | 26 | |
5372590502 | umma | the whole community of Muslims bound together by ties of religion | 27 | |
5372590503 | jizya | a per capita yearly tax placed on non-Muslim subjects by the Islamic state | 28 | |
5372590504 | mawali | non-Arab Muslims, who converted to Islam in the lands conquered by the Arabs | 29 | |
5372590505 | Ka'aba | a small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca that contains a sacred black stone | 30 | |
5372590506 | dhimmi | specific individuals living in Muslim lands, who are granted special status and safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital | 31 | |
5372590507 | Sunna | the traditional portion of Muslim law based on Muhammad's words or acts | 32 | |
5372590508 | Hadith | a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad | 33 | |
5372590509 | Ridda Wars | a series of military campaigns launched by the Caliph Abu Bakr against rebel Arabian tribes | 34 | |
5372590510 | Diasporic communities | a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic location | 35 | |
5372590511 | Ibn Battuta | a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler who goes on excursions | 36 | |
5372590512 | Dar al-Islam | countries where Muslim can be practiced as the ruling sect | 37 | |
5372590513 | Al Andalus | Muslim Spain | 38 | |
5372590514 | Printing | the production of books, newspapers, or other printed material | 39 | |
5372590515 | Dhows | a lateen-rigged ship with one or two masts | 40 | |
5372590516 | Bubonic plague | a plague that was transfer from infested rats | 41 | |
5372590517 | Ulama | a body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology | 42 | |
5372590518 | Sufism | the inner mystical dimensions of Islam | 43 | |
5372590519 | Bhaktic cults | hindu groups dedicated to gods and goddesses | 44 | |
5372590520 | Griots | a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician | 45 | |
5372590521 | Hagia Sophia | Once a Christian Church, then a Islam mosque, now a Museum | 46 | |
5372590522 | Eastern Orthodox Christianity | the second largest Christian church and one of the oldest religious institutions in the world | 47 | |
5372590523 | patriarch | the male head of a family or tribe | 48 | |
5372590524 | icons | a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something | 49 | |
5372590525 | Cyril | the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444 | 50 | |
5372590526 | Methodius | brothers with Cyril who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries | 51 | |
5372590527 | Roman Catholicism | of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church | 52 | |
5372590528 | Pope | the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church | 53 | |
5372590529 | sacraments | a religious ceremony or act of the Christian Church that is regarded as an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual divine grace | 54 | |
5372590530 | investiture | the action of formally investing a person with honors or rank | 55 | |
5372590531 | simony | the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices | 56 | |
5372590532 | monastician | monkhood is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work | 57 | |
5372590533 | Scholasticism | the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities | 58 | |
5372590534 | Thomas Aquinas | an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church | 59 | |
5372590535 | Feudalism | the dominant social system in medieval Europe | 60 | |
5372590536 | The Crusades | a medieval military expedition made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims | 61 | |
5372590537 | Stateless societies | a society that is not governed by a state | 62 | |
5372590538 | Wazier | a high official in some Muslim countries | 63 | |
5372590539 | Reconquista | a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims | 64 | |
5372590540 | Rulers | a person exercising government or dominion | 65 | |
5372590541 | Sundiata | a puissant prince and founder of the Mali Empire | 66 | |
5372590542 | Mansa Musa | the tenth Mansa or "emperor", of the wealthy West African Mali Empire | 67 | |
5372590543 | Muhammad Askia (the Great) | an emperor, military commander, and political reformer of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century | 68 | |
5372590544 | Justinian | 69 | ||
5372590545 | Vladimir I | a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015 | 70 | |
5372590546 | Yaroslav the wise | a thrice grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kiev who united the two principalities for a time under his rule | 71 | |
5372590547 | Clovis | the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler | 72 | |
5372590548 | Charles Martel | 73 | ||
5372590549 | Charlemagne | 74 | ||
5372590550 | William the Conqueror | 75 | ||
5372590551 | Greek Fire | 76 | ||
5372590552 | Tsar | 77 | ||
5372590553 | Boyars | 78 | ||
5372590554 | Holy Roman Emperor | 79 | ||
5372590555 | Magna Carta | 80 | ||
5372590556 | Parliment | 81 | ||
5372590557 | Estates General | The clergy The nobles The common people | 82 | |
5372590558 | Hundred Years War | 83 | ||
5372590559 | Byzantium | 84 | ||
5372590560 | Islamic Caliphates | 85 | ||
5372590561 | Rightly Guided | 86 | ||
5372590562 | Umayyads | 87 | ||
5372590563 | Abbasids | 88 | ||
5372590564 | Ghana | 89 | ||
5372590565 | Mali | 90 | ||
5372590566 | Songhai | a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century | 91 | |
5372590567 | Axum | a city in the northern part of Ethiopia | 92 | |
5372590568 | Great Zimbabwe | 93 | ||
5372590569 | Yoruba peoples of Benin | 94 | ||
5372590570 | Dehli Sultanate | 95 | ||
5372590571 | The Franks | 96 | ||
5372590572 | Berbers | 97 | ||
5372590573 | Almohads | a Moroccan Berber Muslim movement founded in the 12th century | 98 | |
5372590574 | Almiravids | a Berber imperial dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th century | 99 | |
5372590575 | Pastoralists | a sheep or cattle farmer | 100 | |
5372590576 | Seljuk Turks | an Oghuz Turk Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became a Persianate society | 101 | |
5372590577 | Mongols | 102 | ||
5372590578 | Shrivajaya | a city-state based on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which was an important centre for the expansion of Buddhism | 103 | |
5372590579 | Urbanization | 104 | ||
5372590580 | Diversification of labor | 105 | ||
5372590581 | Manorialism | 106 | ||
5372590582 | Vassals | 107 | ||
5372590583 | Serfdom | 108 | ||
5372590584 | Slavery | 109 | ||
5372590585 | ayan | The wealthy landed elite that emerged in the early decades of Abbasid rule. | 110 | |
5372590586 | Free peasant agriculture | 111 | ||
5372590587 | Guilds | 112 | ||
5372590588 | Labor Taxes | 113 | ||
5372590589 | Juula | a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including the Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Guinea-Bissau | 114 | |
5372590590 | Three field system | 115 | ||
5372590591 | Gothic | 116 | ||
5372590592 | Romanesque Architecture | 117 |
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