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| 324637070 | Theocracy | A government ruled by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as being divinely guided. | 0 | |
| 324637071 | Charles Martel | Led the revolt against the advancing Muslim armies and in 732 defeated them at the Battle of Tours. | 1 | |
| 324637072 | Code of Chivalry | An honor system that strongly condemned betrayal and promoted mutual respect. | 2 | |
| 324637073 | Burghers | Middle-class merchants. | 3 | |
| 324637074 | Magna Carta | This document reinstated the feudal rights of the nobles, but also extended the rule of law to other people in the country, namely the growing burgher class. | 4 | |
| 324637075 | Code of Bushido | The code stressed loyalty, courage, and honor; so much so that if a samurai failed to meet his obligations under the code, he was expected to commit suicide. | 5 | |
| 324656241 | Sunnis | Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries. | 6 | |
| 324656242 | Shiite | A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs. | 7 | |
| 324656243 | Sufis | A mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life. | 8 | |
| 324656244 | Mongols | Overran the Islamic Empire and destroyed Baghdad, thereby signaling the end of the Abbasid Dynasty. | 9 | |
| 324656245 | 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. | 10 | |
| 324656246 | Byzantine Empire | A continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395. | 11 | |
| 324656247 | Orthodox Christianity | Separate branch of Christianity practiced in the Byzantine Empire. | 12 | |
| 324656248 | Justinian | Reigned from 527-565, Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians. | 13 | |
| 324656249 | Justinian Code | The body of Roman law collected by order of the Byzantine emperor, Justinian around A.D. 534. | 14 | |
| 324656250 | Hagia Sophia | Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. | 15 | |
| 324656251 | Crusades | A series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims. | 16 | |
| 324656252 | Inquisition | A formalized interrogation and persecution process of heretics. | 17 | |
| 324656253 | Queen Isabella | Ruler of Castille and also united Spain. | 18 | |
| 324656254 | Bubonic Plague | Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people. | 19 | |
| 324656255 | Ming Dynasty | A major dynasty that ruled China from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. | 20 | |
| 324656256 | Tribute System | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. | 21 | |
| 324656257 | Daimyo | Owners of large tracts of land. | 22 | |
| 324656258 | What happened to the Mongol Empire? | It was split into hordes, or small, independent empires. | 23 | |
| 324656259 | Ivan the Terrible | Had centralized power over the entire Russian sphere, ruling ruthlessly and using the secret police against his own nobles. | 24 |
