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5784586979Middle agesthe time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance0
5784586980Manoralisimpolitical, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord1
5784586981Serfsa 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
5784586982Clovisking of the Franks 481-511.3
5784586983Charles Martelruler of the Franks 714-741 (grandfather of Charlemagne).4
5784586984Gothicnoting or pertaining to a style of architecture5
5784599568Guildsan organization of persons with related interests, goals.6
5784586985Yangdithe second and penultimate emperor of the Sui dynasty.7
5784586986Xuanzongwas the 7th emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China,8
5784586987Zhoa kuagyinEmperor of China (960-976) who founded the Song dynasty and unified much of China.9
5784586988Neo-Confucianisma movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.10
5784586989Grand canala canal in E China, extending S from Tientsin to Hangchow. 900 miles long.11
5784586990Junksa 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
5784586991Footbindingthe act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.13
5784586992Taika reformswere a set of doctrines established by Emperor Kōtoku14
5784586993Fujiwaraa member of a powerful family in Japan who exercised power as regents in the name of the emperor.15
5784586994Bushia genre of Japanese folk music.16
5784586995Samuria member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.17
5784586996Shogunsa hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan.18
5784586997Liyvan19
5784586998Charlemagne'sking of the Franks as Charles I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire20
5784586999William the conqueror("the Conqueror"), duke of Normandy; king of England (son of Robert I, duke of Normandy)21
5784587000Magna Cartathe "great charter" of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede22
5784587001Urban llFrench pope whose sermons called for the First Crusade23
5784587002Investiturewhen a government official, a judge, or a head of state is formally put into office or promoted to a higher rank.24
5784587003Black deaththe epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe25
5784587004Zenorchan Buddhismthe most well-known school of Buddhism in the west.26
5784587005Gempei warswas a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan.27
5784587006Minamoto tairawas a major Japanese clan of samurai.28
5784587007Sinificationis a process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society.29
5784587008Trung sistersheroines of the first Vietnamese independence movement, who headed a rebellion against the Chinese Han-dynasty overlords and briefly established an autonomous state.30
5784587009Trihn chinggis khanMongol conqueror who united the Mongol tribes and forged an empire stretching from China to the Danube River and into Persia.31
5784587010Batu Golden Hordethe group of settled Mongols who ruled over Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and the Caucasus from the 1240s until 1502.32
5784587011Berke33
5784587012Zhu yuan zhangwas 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
5784587013Nguyenthe family name of a major Vietnamese royal dynasty.35
5784587014Khagontown/village in Madhya Pradesh state of in India36
5784587015Daimyosone of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.37
5784587016Ming dynastyA 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
5784587017Tang Dynastywas an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period39
5784587018Gregory IVVone of the greatest popes of the medieval church40
5784587019Toltecsa member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs.41
5784587020Aztecsa member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.42
5784587021Incaa ruler or member of the royal family in the Incan empire43
5784587022Empress wuwas the only female emperor in the history of China.44

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