276796839 | Christ | Reference to Jesus, Greek term for Messiah | 0 | |
276796840 | Peter | Apostle of Jesus, early church leader | 1 | |
276796841 | Huns | Nomadic warriors, appeared in 4th century AD - who were very strong | 2 | |
276796842 | legion | a military unit of the ancient Roman army made up of about 5,000 foot soldiers anda gourp of soldiers on horse back | 3 | |
276796843 | triumvirate | in ancient roame a group of three leaders sharing control of the government | 4 | |
276796844 | Fall of Rome | The societal collapse of Rome. Attributed to political, economic, military issues along with invasions. | 5 | |
276796845 | Brahma | Hindu God considered the creator of the world | 6 | |
276796846 | Vishnu | A Hindu god considered the preserver of the world | 7 | |
276796847 | Wudi | chinese empire from 140-86 b.c; brought the Han dynasty to its peak; expanded the chinese empire; made confusionism the state religion, defeated the Xiangu | 8 | |
276796848 | Empress Lu | The Empress of the Han dynasty through her sons | 9 | |
276796849 | Chinese Dynasties | Han Dynasty, Qin Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty, Shang Dynasty | 10 | |
276796850 | Civil Service system | the administrative departments of a government especially those in which employees are hired on the basis of their scores on examination | 11 | |
276796851 | Silk | a major product in China that made alot of money | 12 | |
276796852 | the protected people | ???? | 13 | |
276796853 | Calligraphy | the art of beautiful handwriting | 14 | |
276796854 | Al-jabr | a math skill developed by the muslims | 15 | |
276796855 | Mecca | the holiest city in Islam, Haj, where Muhammed preached | 16 | |
276796856 | Islam | a monotheistic religion that developed in Arabia in the 7th century A.D. | 17 | |
276796857 | Medina | Where Muhammad escaped to order for him to plan ? | 18 | |
276796858 | Allah | Arabic word for God | 19 | |
276796859 | Muhammad | the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632) | 20 | |
276796860 | "people of the book" | Jews and Christians, the name for Jews and Christians for whom the Muslims had religious tolerance; called this because each religion had a holy book with teachings similar to that of the Qur'an | 21 | |
276796861 | Sunni | the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the righteous successors of Muhammad | 22 | |
276796862 | Shi'a | the branch of Islam whose members, the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 23 | |
276796863 | Abbasids | A dynasty the ruled much of the Muslim empire from A.D. 750 to 1258 | 24 | |
276796864 | Umayyads | a dynasty that ruled the Muslim Empire from A.D. 661 to 750 and later established a kingdom in Al-Andalus | 25 | |
276796865 | House of Wisdom | a center of learning established in Baghdad in the 800s. | 26 | |
276796866 | 5 pillars | faith, prayer, alms, fasting, pilgrimmage | 27 | |
276796867 | Shari'a | A body of law governing the lives of Muslims | 28 | |
276796868 | Caliph | a supreme political and religious leader in a muslim government | 29 | |
276796869 | Mongols | a ferocious group of horsemen that were under control of Ghengis Kahn | 30 | |
276796870 | Russians | a people from the north culture is a blend of Slavic and Greek tradtions | 31 | |
276796871 | Slavs | the people from the forests north of the Black Sea | 32 | |
276796872 | Byzantine Empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 Ruled by Justinian | 33 | |
276796873 | Justinian | the emporor of the Byzantine Empire made Justinian code and built buildings like the Hagai Sophia | 34 | |
276796874 | Icon | a religious image used by eastern christians | 35 | |
276796875 | Cyrillic alphabet | an alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century A.D. by Saints | 36 | |
276796876 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde. | 37 | |
276796877 | Czar | Russian version of Caesar, broke with mongols by refusing to pay tribute | 38 | |
276796878 | Boyars | landowning nobles of russia | 39 | |
276796879 | Movable Type | blocks of metal orwood, each bearing is a single character, that can be arranged to make up a page for printing | 40 | |
276796880 | Pastoralist | a member of nomatic group that herds domesticated animals | 41 | |
276796881 | Ghengis Kahn | a great leader of Mongolian army conquered many countires and land abroad | 42 | |
276796882 | Kublai Kahn | Kublai=Yuan=grandson of ghengis khan also know as "great Khan" could not conquer japan ruled in china...wanted to live a settled life unlike mongols. he had huge palaces | 43 | |
276796883 | Treaty of Verdon | This divided Charlemagne's empire among his three grandsons. These lands eventually became modern France and Germany | 44 | |
276796884 | Charlemagne | , King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire, which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate, though started an intellectual revival. (250) | 45 | |
276796885 | Excommunication | the taking away of a person's right of membership in the christian Church | 46 | |
276796886 | Interdict | popes consider this to be their "spiritual weapon"; what you faced if you violated Church laws; which excluded an entire town, region, or kingdom from participating in most sacraments and from receiving Christian burial | 47 | |
276796887 | fuedalism | a political system in which nobles are granted the use of land that legally belonged to the king in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of people who live on the land | 48 | |
276796888 | serf | medieval peasant legally bound to live on a Lord's estate | 49 | |
276796889 | Fief | land grant | 50 | |
276796890 | Manorialism | the organization of rural economy and society classes of manors, land surr, 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. | 51 | |
276796891 | troubadour | a medieval poet and musician who traveled from place to place, entertaining the songs of court and love | 52 | |
276796892 | sacrament | one of the christian ceremonies in which God's grace is transmitted to people | 53 | |
276796893 | Canon Law | laws of the Catholic Church | 54 | |
276796894 | Concordat of Worms | an agreement that says that the Pope puts people in the church but the King can veto them | 55 | |
276796895 | Magna Carta | a document guaranteeing certain basic political rights | 56 | |
276796896 | Gothic | relating to the style of Church architecture that developed in Medieval Europe, featuring ribbed vaults and stained glass windows | 57 | |
276796897 | Reconquista | the effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from 1100s to 1400. | 58 | |
276796898 | Great Schism | a division in the medieval Roman Catholic Church, during which rival Popes were established in Avigont in , a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378-1417, over papal succession, during which there were two, or sometimes three, claimants to the papal office | 59 | |
276796899 | John Wycliffe | English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384), He preached that Jesus Christ, not the pope, was the head of the Church. | 60 | |
276796900 | 3 Field system | a system of farming developed in Medieval Europe in which farmland was divided in the fields of equal size and each of these was successively planted with a spring crop and left unplanted in the winter, a system of farming where there were 3 fields, one rests, another is harvested, and the last is planted, a revolving cycle | 61 | |
276796901 | Commercial Revolution | the expansion of trade and business that transofrmed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries | 62 | |
276796902 | Jan Hus | Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation, called for an end of the corruption of the church after the Great Schism; was burned at the stake for heresy | 63 | |
276796903 | 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 | 64 | |
276796904 | Hundred Years War | the series of wars between England and France, 1337-1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais. | 65 | |
276796905 | Secular | not relating to the church., worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal | 66 | |
276796906 | Vernacular | the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) literature of the common people | 67 | |
276796907 | Patron | a person who supports the arts or other activities by supplying money for them - specifically in the Renaissance for painting | 68 | |
276796908 | Humanism | study on human achievements, the cultural movement of the Renaissance, the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | 69 | |
276796909 | Renaissance | The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history | 70 |
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