250441901 | 5 Pillars | -no god but allah and muhammad is his prophet -daily prayer -fasting during ramadan -charity (alms) -pilgrimage to mecca | 0 | |
250441902 | Abbasid | diverse nature of administration not bent on imperial expansion | 1 | |
250441903 | Abu Bakr | 1st ever caliph | 2 | |
250441904 | Allah | monotheism beliefs (islam) he is the god in islamic religion | 3 | |
250441905 | Alms | charity | 4 | |
250441906 | Caliph | head of state, milotary commander, judge, and religious leader | 5 | |
250441907 | Dar al Islam | islamic world | 6 | |
250441908 | Hajj | pilgrimage to mecca | 7 | |
250441909 | Jihad | "struggle" | 8 | |
250441910 | Ka'ba | huge black rock "house of powerful diety" | 9 | |
250441911 | Mecca | city dedicated directly to islam and allah | 10 | |
250441912 | Medina | where islamic followers fled to after getting kicked out of mecca | 11 | |
250441913 | Muhammad | monotheism - allah brings about the islamic religion | 12 | |
250441914 | Koran | record of revelations received during muhammad's visions | 13 | |
250441915 | Sharia | uniformity of islamic law | 14 | |
250441916 | Shiite | believe ali passed over for abu bakr | 15 | |
250441917 | Sufi | asceticism & mysticism missionaries | 16 | |
250441918 | Sultan | powerful governor of province | 17 | |
250441919 | Sunni | traditionalists: leaders should be drawn from able group of people | 18 | |
250441920 | Umayyad | meccan merchant class tightly centralized | 19 | |
250441921 | Umma | the communal society of followers of islamic religion | 20 | |
250441922 | Conscription | enrollment of people, especially in military service | 21 | |
250441923 | Draft Animals | animals who can do manual labor ex. pull plows | 22 | |
250441924 | Equal-Field System | policy for redistributing land | 23 | |
250441925 | Footbinding | increased male control in families even more patriarchal! | 24 | |
250441926 | Grand Canal | promotes trade between north and south china...creates economic, cultural, and political unity | 25 | |
250441927 | Heian Japan | weak japanese empire, no power behind the throne | 26 | |
250441928 | Kowtow | kneel and bow before emperor | 27 | |
250441929 | Mercenaries | soldiers | 28 | |
250441930 | Nara Japan | early "medieval" japan. south in the country | 29 | |
250441931 | Neo-Confucianism | confucianism with adapted buddhist themes | 30 | |
250441932 | Porcelain | "chinawear" | 31 | |
250441933 | Samurai | professional warriors | 32 | |
250441934 | Shinto | religion: ancestors, nature spirits, dieties | 33 | |
250441935 | Shogun | military governor who ruled in place of the emperor | 34 | |
250441936 | Song Dynasty | administration, education, industry, arts military not emphasized | 35 | |
250441937 | Sui Dynasty | regional kingdoms strong centralized gov't massive building projects | 36 | |
250441938 | Tang Dynasty | strong confucian ruler law & order | 37 | |
250441939 | Terrace Farming | farming used to cultivate sloped land in china | 38 | |
250441940 | Tributary Relationships | chinese practice tributes as trade regulation and authority | 39 | |
250441941 | Uighurs | nomadic mercenaries invited to help smother rebellion taking place in tang dynasty | 40 | |
250441942 | Wu Zhao | female emperor | 41 | |
250441943 | White Huns | nomadic tribe from central asia...invade india | 42 | |
250441944 | King Harsha | brings temporary restoration to india after invasions and fall of the gupta | 43 | |
250441945 | Emporia | place of commerce, trading center, marketplace | 44 | |
250441946 | Axum | highlands of northern ethiopia adopts christianity | 45 | |
250441947 | Byzantine Empire | eastern roman empire centered around constantinople | 46 | |
250441948 | Caesaropapism | emoeror co-heads the church | 47 | |
250441949 | Justinian | codified roman law | 48 | |
250441950 | Hagia Sophia | huge, wonderful church built by justinian | 49 | |
250441951 | Themes | provinces/themes controlled by a general (chosen by the emperor) | 50 | |
250441952 | Germanic States | emerge after last of roman emperors are overthrown | 51 | |
250441953 | Carolingians | the franks...basically | 52 | |
250441954 | Charlemagne | "Charles the Great" reestablished centralized emperial rule | 53 | |
250441955 | Vikings | north sea farers...merchants and migrants take over after franks | 54 | |
250441956 | Bezant | gold currency of byzantine empire | 55 | |
250441957 | Feudalism | hierarchal system of duties and obligations | 56 | |
250441958 | Roman Catholic | headed by the pope centrslized church from rome | 57 | |
250441959 | Eastern Orthodox | headed (sort of) by the patriarch emperor chooses patriarch caesaropapism | 58 | |
250441960 | Schism | roman catholic & orthodox churches excommunicate one another | 59 | |
250441961 | Pope Gregory I | reinforces Papal Primacy (ultimate authority for the Christian Church) | 60 |
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