5784586979 | Middle ages | the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance | 0 | |
5784586980 | Manoralisim | political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord | 1 | |
5784586981 | Serfs | a 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. | 2 | |
5784586982 | Clovis | king of the Franks 481-511. | 3 | |
5784586983 | Charles Martel | ruler of the Franks 714-741 (grandfather of Charlemagne). | 4 | |
5784586984 | Gothic | noting or pertaining to a style of architecture | 5 | |
5784599568 | Guilds | an organization of persons with related interests, goals. | 6 | |
5784586985 | Yangdi | the second and penultimate emperor of the Sui dynasty. | 7 | |
5784586986 | Xuanzong | was the 7th emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China, | 8 | |
5784586987 | Zhoa kuagyin | Emperor of China (960-976) who founded the Song dynasty and unified much of China. | 9 | |
5784586988 | Neo-Confucianism | a movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism. | 10 | |
5784586989 | Grand canal | a canal in E China, extending S from Tientsin to Hangchow. 900 miles long. | 11 | |
5784586990 | Junks | a seagoing ship with a traditional Chinese design and used primarily in Chinese waters, having square sails spread by battens, a high stern, and usually a flat bottom. | 12 | |
5784586991 | Footbinding | the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible. | 13 | |
5784586992 | Taika reforms | were a set of doctrines established by Emperor Kōtoku | 14 | |
5784586993 | Fujiwara | a member of a powerful family in Japan who exercised power as regents in the name of the emperor. | 15 | |
5784586994 | Bushi | a genre of Japanese folk music. | 16 | |
5784586995 | Samuri | a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan. | 17 | |
5784586996 | Shoguns | a hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan. | 18 | |
5784586997 | Liyvan | 19 | ||
5784586998 | Charlemagne's | king of the Franks as Charles I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire | 20 | |
5784586999 | William the conqueror | ("the Conqueror"), duke of Normandy; king of England (son of Robert I, duke of Normandy) | 21 | |
5784587000 | Magna Carta | the "great charter" of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede | 22 | |
5784587001 | Urban ll | French pope whose sermons called for the First Crusade | 23 | |
5784587002 | Investiture | when a government official, a judge, or a head of state is formally put into office or promoted to a higher rank. | 24 | |
5784587003 | Black death | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe | 25 | |
5784587004 | Zenorchan Buddhism | the most well-known school of Buddhism in the west. | 26 | |
5784587005 | Gempei wars | was a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan. | 27 | |
5784587006 | Minamoto taira | was a major Japanese clan of samurai. | 28 | |
5784587007 | Sinification | is a process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society. | 29 | |
5784587008 | Trung sisters | heroines of the first Vietnamese independence movement, who headed a rebellion against the Chinese Han-dynasty overlords and briefly established an autonomous state. | 30 | |
5784587009 | Trihn chinggis khan | Mongol conqueror who united the Mongol tribes and forged an empire stretching from China to the Danube River and into Persia. | 31 | |
5784587010 | Batu Golden Horde | the group of settled Mongols who ruled over Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and the Caucasus from the 1240s until 1502. | 32 | |
5784587011 | Berke | 33 | ||
5784587012 | Zhu yuan zhang | was a peasant who became the leader of a rebellion against the Yuan rulers called the Red Turbans. Then became the first emperor of the Ming Empire. | 34 | |
5784587013 | Nguyen | the family name of a major Vietnamese royal dynasty. | 35 | |
5784587014 | Khagon | town/village in Madhya Pradesh state of in India | 36 | |
5784587015 | Daimyos | one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun. | 37 | |
5784587016 | Ming dynasty | A major dynasty that ruled China. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. | 38 | |
5784587017 | Tang Dynasty | was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period | 39 | |
5784587018 | Gregory IVV | one of the greatest popes of the medieval church | 40 | |
5784587019 | Toltecs | a member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs. | 41 | |
5784587020 | Aztecs | a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century. | 42 | |
5784587021 | Inca | a ruler or member of the royal family in the Incan empire | 43 | |
5784587022 | Empress wu | was the only female emperor in the history of China. | 44 |
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