All 53 vocab words about Islam
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| 227461563 | subordinate | placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank | 0 | |
| 227461564 | meritocracy | elite gorup of people whose progress is based on ability and talent rather than class priviledge or wealth. | 1 | |
| 227461565 | vassals | people granted the use of land, in return for renderring homeage, fealty, and usually military service or its equivilent to a lord. | 2 | |
| 227461566 | submissive | inclined or ready to submit | 3 | |
| 227461567 | serfs | slaves | 4 | |
| 227461568 | migration | the process or act of movig to a different location or the movement itself | 5 | |
| 227461569 | theocracy | form of government where the god or diety is the supreme ruler | 6 | |
| 227461570 | middle ages | period of european history, 476-1500 | 7 | |
| 227461571 | decentralized | distribution of administrative powers of functions over a less concentrated area | 8 | |
| 227461572 | eastern orthodox | a christian bodywho adherents are largely based in eastern europe and the middle east with a growing presence in the western world | 9 | |
| 227461573 | dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage | 10 | |
| 227461574 | nation-state | a soverign state inhabited by a relatively homogenous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality. | 11 | |
| 227461575 | fief | fee or feud held of a feudal lord, tenure of a land subject to feudal obligations. | 12 | |
| 227461576 | aristocracy | a class of peolpe holding exceptional rank and priviledges, especially the hereditary nobility. | 13 | |
| 227461577 | civil service | system or method of appointing government employees on the basis of competitive examinations, rather than by political patronage. | 14 | |
| 227461578 | heretic | professed believer who maintains religious beliefs contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church. | 15 | |
| 227461579 | secluded | sheltered or screened from general activity, view, etc | 16 | |
| 227461580 | cultural diffusion | the spreading or mixing of cultures | 17 | |
| 227461581 | credit | honor given for some action | 18 | |
| 227461582 | city-state | a severign state consisting of autonomous city with its city states | 19 | |
| 227461583 | hajj | pilgrimage to mecca that every islamic man/woman must make at least once in their lifetime | 20 |
