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APWH Vocabulary Period 3 set #10 Flashcards

Regional and Trans-regional Interactions, c. 600 C.E to c.1450

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234466511Abacusa calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves0
234466512Austronesianpeople who as early as 2000 B.C.E began to explore and settle islands of the Pacific Ocean basin.1
234466513Black Deathan epidemic of bacterial plague and especially bubonic plague that spread rapidly in Europe and Asia in the 14th century2
234466514Chimorpolitical grouping of the chimu culture that ruled the northern coast of Peru, from 850-14703
234466515Feudalisma system of political organization prevailing in Medieval Europe in which a vassal renders service to a lord and receives protection and land in return.4
234466516Gothic Architecturea style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries5
234466517Harema house or part of a house allotted to women in a Muslim household.6
234466518Ka'abaMain shrine in Mecca, goal of Muslims embarking on hajj7
234466519Malay SailorsSoutheast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana8
234466520MexicaThe name given to themselves by the Aztec people9
234466521Mitain the Incan empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.10
234466522Neo-Confucianismphilosophy that attempted to merge certain basic elements of Confucian and Buddhist thought; most important of the early Neo-confucianists was the Chinese thinker Zhu-Xi11
234466523QuipusIncan mnemonic aid comprised of different colored strings and knots that served to record events in the absence of a written test.12
234466524Seppukua Japanese term for ritual suicide committed by the samurai when he had been dishonored.13
234466525Shogunatea Japanese military leader who ruled in place of the emperor14
234466526Syncretismthe fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)15
234466527Yuan dynastyChinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan16

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