Regional and Trans-regional Interactions, c. 600 C.E to c.1450
234466511 | Abacus | a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves | 0 | |
234466512 | Austronesian | people who as early as 2000 B.C.E began to explore and settle islands of the Pacific Ocean basin. | 1 | |
234466513 | Black Death | an epidemic of bacterial plague and especially bubonic plague that spread rapidly in Europe and Asia in the 14th century | 2 | |
234466514 | Chimor | political grouping of the chimu culture that ruled the northern coast of Peru, from 850-1470 | 3 | |
234466515 | Feudalism | a 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 | |
234466516 | Gothic Architecture | a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries | 5 | |
234466517 | Harem | a house or part of a house allotted to women in a Muslim household. | 6 | |
234466518 | Ka'aba | Main shrine in Mecca, goal of Muslims embarking on hajj | 7 | |
234466519 | Malay Sailors | Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana | 8 | |
234466520 | Mexica | The name given to themselves by the Aztec people | 9 | |
234466521 | Mita | in the Incan empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year. | 10 | |
234466522 | Neo-Confucianism | philosophy that attempted to merge certain basic elements of Confucian and Buddhist thought; most important of the early Neo-confucianists was the Chinese thinker Zhu-Xi | 11 | |
234466523 | Quipus | Incan mnemonic aid comprised of different colored strings and knots that served to record events in the absence of a written test. | 12 | |
234466524 | Seppuku | a Japanese term for ritual suicide committed by the samurai when he had been dishonored. | 13 | |
234466525 | Shogunate | a Japanese military leader who ruled in place of the emperor | 14 | |
234466526 | Syncretism | the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections) | 15 | |
234466527 | Yuan dynasty | Chinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan | 16 |