3170811739 | Bushido | Bushidō, literally meaning "the way of the warrior", is a Japanese word for the way of the samurai life, loosely analogous to the concept of chivalry. "Bushido" is a modern term rather than a historical one. The "way" itself originates from the samurai moral values, most commonly stressing some combination of frugality, loyalty, martial arts mastery, and honor unto death | 0 | |
3170842216 | Chivalry | the combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight, esp courage, honour, justice, and a readiness to help the weak | 1 | |
3170931808 | christendom | the Christian world | 2 | |
3170941012 | civil service exam system/examination system | system of competitive examinations for recruiting officials that linked state and society and dominated education | 3 | |
3170954959 | crusades | any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims. | 4 | |
3170959765 | dar al-islam | is the area of the world under the rule of Islam | 5 | |
3170994247 | entrepot | commercial center where goods are received for distribution, transshipment, or repackaging. | 6 | |
3170999777 | feudalism | a political system based on reciprocal relationships | 7 | |
3171058241 | fiefs | a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations | 8 | |
3171062398 | gentry | an upper or ruling class; aristocracy | 9 | |
3171072673 | grand canal in china | longest canal or artificial river in the world and a famous tourist destination | 10 | |
3171081493 | guilds | an organization of persons with related interests, goals, etc., especially one formed for mutual aid or protection | 11 | |
3171094656 | hajj | the pilgrimage to Mecca, which every adult Muslim is supposed to make at least once in his or her lifetime: the fifth of the Pillars of Islam. | 12 | |
3171100005 | kow tow | kneel and touch the ground with the forehead in worship or submission as part of Chinese custom | 13 | |
3171105692 | manorialism | its principles and practices in the Middle Ages. | 14 | |
3171113410 | serfs | person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another | 15 | |
3171138454 | sharia | law, seen as deriving from the Koran | 16 | |
3171144904 | southernization | came from the observation that "Southern" values and beliefs had become more central to political success, reaching an apogee in the 1990s, with a Democratic president and vice-president from the South and Congressional leaders in both parties being from the South | 17 | |
3171175577 | sufi | member of an ascetic, mystical Muslim sect | 18 |
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