99370667 | Byzantine | member of Byzantine empire | 0 | |
99370668 | Orthodoxy: Greek and Russian | Russian- Russian form of Christianity imported from Byzantine empire and combined with local religion Greek- from of Christianity | 1 | |
99370669 | Byzantine Empire | eastern half of Roman empire following western half of old empire; retained Mediterranean culture, particularly Greek; capital- Constantinople | 2 | |
99370670 | Tsar | Slavic version of word "Caesar"; emperor, king | 3 | |
99370671 | Icon, Iconoclasm | painting of saints or other religious figures attacking use of religious images in worship | 4 | |
99370672 | Cyril and Methodius | missionaries sent by Byzantine government | 5 | |
99370673 | Kievan Rus | name of Slavic and Scandinavian kingdom established in Russia; important commercial/cultural center | 6 | |
99370674 | Boyars | Russian land owning aristocrats | 7 | |
99370675 | Tartars | Mongols; captured Russian cities | 8 | |
99370676 | Caesaro-papism | combining government and Church; head of state is head of church | 9 | |
99370677 | Schism | split of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox; a split or division | 10 | |
99370678 | Medieval, Middle Ages | period in Europe from fall of Rome until the 15th century | 11 | |
99370679 | Manorialism | economic and political relations between landlords and serfs | 12 | |
99370680 | Serfs | peasants who farmed land belonging to lords in return fro protection | 13 | |
99370681 | 3-Field System | system of having 1/3 of the land unplanted for fertilization | 14 | |
99370682 | (Holy Roman) emperors | successors to Charlemagne; they merged Christian and classical cultures; ruled northern Italy and Germany | 15 | |
99370683 | Feudal monarch; vassals | greater lord who provides protection lesser lords who provide military and goods in return for protection | 16 | |
99370684 | Feudalism | relationship between military elites and vassals | 17 | |
99370685 | Parliaments (Three estates) | bodies representing privileged groups (Church, Nobles, Urban Leaders) | 18 | |
99370686 | Crusades | Holy Wars where Christians tried to recover Holy Land from Muslims | 19 | |
99370687 | Papacy | referring to office of pope, time of pope, or jurisdiction of pope | 20 | |
99370688 | investiture | practice of state appointment of bishops | 21 | |
99370689 | Scholasticism | the dominant medieval philosophical approach based in schools in medieval times | 22 | |
99370690 | Hanseatic League | organizations of cities in northern Germany to establish commercial | 23 | |
99370691 | Guilds | controlled commercial and industrial endeavors, manipulate businesses, regulated training | 24 | |
99370692 | Black Death | one of many plagues that diminished population; spread by fleas on rats | 25 | |
99370693 | Indian | misnomer created by Columbus referring to indigenous peoples of New World | 26 | |
99370694 | Toltec | nomadic people from bay and northern frontier of the sedentary agriculture area in Mesoamerica; established capital of Tula following migration into central Mesoamerican plateu | 27 | |
99370695 | Aztec | the Mexica; one of the nomadic tribes that used political anarchy after fall of Toltecs to penetrate into the sedentary agricultural zone of the Mesoamerican plateu | 28 | |
99370696 | Tlaloc and Huitzilopochtli | major god of Aztecs; identified with old sun god Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of sacrifice and warfare | 29 | |
99370697 | Calpulli | seven clans in Aztec society expanded to sixty; divided into residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 30 | |
99370698 | Pipiltin | nobility that rose out of calpulli | 31 | |
99370699 | Chinampas | artificial islands used for agriculture | 32 | |
99370700 | Pochteca | special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | 33 | |
99370701 | Ayullu | Quechua-speaking clans | 34 | |
99370702 | Inca | group of clans centered in Cuzco that were able to create empire in Andean civilization | 35 | |
99370703 | Split inheritance | Incan practice where when the Inca ruler died his power was passed down to his successor; his material wealth pas passed to his descendants for the cult of his mummy | 36 | |
99370704 | Curacas | the local rulers who were allowed to maintain the positions and receive privileges from the Inca in return for loyalty | 37 | |
99370705 | Mita | labor turns that the communities took | 38 | |
99370706 | Mitmag | Incan colonists | 39 | |
99370707 | Tambos | way stations | 40 | |
99370708 | Yanas | class of people removed from ayllus served as artisans, farmers, servants | 41 | |
99370709 | Orejones | big ears of nobles; military elite of Incas | 42 | |
99370710 | Quipu | knotted strings | 43 |
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