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| 294574925 | Feudalism | the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th C | 0 | |
| 294574926 | Manorialism | An economic system based on the manor and lands including a village and surrounding acreage which were administered by a lord. It developed during the Middle Ages to increase agricultural production. | 1 | |
| 294574927 | Clovis | king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy | 2 | |
| 294574928 | Charlemagne | king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor | 3 | |
| 294574929 | Charles Martel | the Frankish commander for the battle of Tours. He defeated the Muslimsin the Battle of Tours, allowing Christianity to survive throughout the Dark Ages. He in a way started Feudalism by giving land to his knights that served for him. | 4 | |
| 294574930 | Odovacer | Germanic general who deposed Romulus Augustulus (last Roman emperor in western half) in 476 CE | 5 | |
| 294574931 | Pope Leo III | Crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 | 6 | |
| 294574932 | King Alfred | He stopped the Norse/Viking invasion of England in the 800's. | 7 | |
| 294574933 | King Otto I of Saxony | Ended the Maygar threat & pope proclaimed him Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (962) | 8 | |
| 294574934 | St. Benedict | he founded a monastery in nothern ital in the 6th century and wrote a set of instructions gonverning the lives of monks that was used by monasteries and vonbents across europe. | 9 | |
| 294574935 | St. Scholastica | ST. BENEDICT'S SISTER, 482-543 sister to St. Benedict adapted his Rules into guidance for women in convents | 10 | |
| 294574936 | Pope Gregory I | 590-604 was most important figure for providing Roman church with sense of direction; "Gregory the Great"; mobilized local resources and organized defense of Rome | 11 | |
| 294574937 | Gaul | an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands | 12 | |
| 294574938 | Aachen | a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders | 13 | |
| 294574939 | Holy Roman Empire | the lands ruled by Charlemagne, a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and laster until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon | 14 | |
| 294574940 | Carolingian dynasty | a Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father that ruled from 751 to 987 | 15 | |
| 294574941 | Visigoths | The western Goths, invade Italy and Spain after the partitioning of the empire | 16 | |
| 294574942 | Franks | group of Germanic people who rose to prominence under the leadership of King Clovis | 17 | |
| 294574943 | Yurt | a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting | 18 | |
| 294574944 | Kumiss | an alcoholic drink prepared from animal products by fermenting mare's milk into a potent concoction | 19 | |
| 294574945 | Khan | an inn in some Eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans, a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries | 20 | |
| 294574946 | Sultan | the ruler of a Muslim country (especially of the former Ottoman Empire) | 21 | |
| 294574947 | Saljuq Turks | Turkish tribe that gained control over the Abbasid empire and fought with Byzantine | 22 | |
| 294574948 | Ghaznavid Turks | raided northern India - inner Asian nomadic Turks who convert to Islam; Seljuks are the ones who go west, but the Ghaznavids go east to India | 23 | |
| 294574949 | Golden Horde | a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century | 24 | |
| 294574950 | Manzikert | site where Saljuq forces inflicted a devastating defeat on the Byzantine army in 1071 | 25 | |
| 294574951 | Tamerlane | Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405) | 26 | |
| 294574952 | Ilkhanate | khanate in persia | 27 | |
| 294574953 | Ottoman Turks | captured Constantinople in 1453 and rename it Istanbul; as a result the Byzantine people flee to Italian City-States which becomes a catalyst for the expansion of language and art | 28 | |
| 294574954 | Chinggis Khan | born in 1170s in decades following death of Kabul Khan; elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206; responsible for conquest of northern kingdoms of China, territories as far west as the Abbasid regions; died in 1227 prior to conquest of most of the Islamic world | 29 | |
| 294574955 | Khubilai Khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans (r. 1260-1294) and founder of the Yuan Empire. (p. 351) | 30 | |
| 294574956 | Chaghatai | controlled India, one of Chinggis Khan's sons whose descendents rued the khanate of Chaghatai | 31 | |
| 294574957 | Osman | most successful warrior and "founder" of Ottomans | 32 | |
| 294574958 | Trans-Saharan trade | route across the sahara desert. Major trade route that traded for gold and salt, created caravan routes, economic benefit for controlling dessert, camels played a huge role in the trading | 33 | |
| 294574959 | Zanj | the arabian term for the east african coast | 34 | |
| 294574960 | Ife | all Yoruba chiefs traced their descent to this first ruler. According to legend, the creator sent this first ruler down to earth where he founded the first Yoruba state. | 35 | |
| 294574961 | Age groups | Same age, same job | 36 | |
| 294574962 | Kinship groups | Early agricultural and technological development (about 8000 BCE to 3500 BCE) - Small groups of settlers grew into kinship-based villages that practiced both crop cultivation and domestication of animals. Tools and inventions helped villages to stabilize and eventually grow. | 37 | |
| 294574963 | Sundiata | the founder of Mali empire. He crushed his enemies and won control of the gold trade routes | 38 | |
| 294574964 | Mansa Musa | this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west africa | 39 | |
| 294574965 | Ibn Battuta | Moroccan Muslim scholar, the most widely traveled individual of his time. He wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan. (p. 373) | 40 | |
| 294574966 | Kongo | the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo people living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola | 41 | |
| 294574967 | Niani | a later capital of Mali | 42 | |
| 294574968 | Koumbi-Saleh | -Capital of Ghana which had 15,000 people with buildings of stone and more than a dozen mosques. Supported by a large number of qadi and Muslim scholars. | 43 | |
| 294574969 | Kilwa | one of many trading cities on the East African coast | 44 | |
| 294574970 | Great Zimbabwe | City, now in ruins (in the modern African country of Zimbabwe), whose many stone structures were built between about 1250 and 1450, when it was a trading center and the capital of a large state. (p. 385) | 45 | |
| 294574971 | Ghana | a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea | 46 | |
| 294574972 | Mali | Empire created by indigenous Muslims in western Sudan of West Africa from the thirteenth to fifteenth century. It was famous for its role in the trans-Saharan gold trade. | 47 | |
| 294574973 | Songhay | successor state to Mali; dominated middle reaches of Niger valley; formed as independent kingdom under a Berber dynasty; capital at Gao; reached imperial status under Sunni Ali | 48 | |
| 294574974 | Sahara desert | the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa | 49 |
