238547714 | Dhimmi | people of the book | 0 | |
238547715 | Jihad | Islamic holy war | 1 | |
238547716 | Jizya | tax on non-muslims | 2 | |
238547717 | Karbala | Site of the defeat and death of Husayn, the son of Ali. | 3 | |
238547718 | Ridda | wars that followed Muhammad's death in 632; resulted in the deaths of rival prophets; restored unity under Islam | 4 | |
238547719 | umma | Muslim religious community | 5 | |
238547720 | Wazir | Chief administrative official under the Abbasids | 6 | |
238547721 | Zakat | Tax for charity; obligatory for all Muslims | 7 | |
238547722 | al-Biruni | 11th-century scientist; calculated the specific weight of major minerals. | 8 | |
238547723 | al-Ghazali | Brilliant Islamic theologian; attempted to fuse Greek and Qur'anic traditions. | 9 | |
238547724 | al-Razi | Classified all matter as animal, vegetable, and mineral. | 10 | |
238547725 | Buyids | Persian invaders of the 10th century; captured Baghdad and acted as sultans through Abbasid figureheads | 11 | |
238547726 | Demak | most powerful of the trading states on the north coast of Java; converted to Islam and served as point of dissemination to other ports | 12 | |
238547727 | Ibn Khaldun | Great Muslim historian; author of The Muqaddimah; sought to uncover persisting patterns in Muslim dynastic history. | 13 | |
238547728 | Kabir | Muslim mystic during 15th century; played down the importance of ritual differences between Hinduism and Islam | 14 | |
238547729 | Malacca | Flourishing trading city in Malaya; established a trading empire after the fall of Shrivijaya. | 15 | |
238547730 | Sati | widow burning | 16 | |
238547731 | Ulama | Islamic religious scholars; pressed for a more conservative and restrictive theology; opposed to non-Islamic thinking. | 17 | |
238547732 | Benin | Nigerian city-state formed by the Edo people during the 14th century; famous for its bronze art work. | 18 | |
238547733 | Griots | Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire | 19 | |
238547734 | Ibn Batuta | Muslim traveler who described African societies and cultures. A sort of Muslim "Marco Polo" | 20 | |
238547735 | Juula | Malinke merchants | 21 | |
238547736 | Mwene Mutapa | title of a king in Great Zimbabwe | 22 | |
238547737 | Nok | central Nigerian culture | 23 | |
238547738 | Sundanic states | States trading to North Africa and Mixing Islamic and indigenous ways | 24 | |
238547739 | Timbuktu | Niger River port city of Mali; had a famous Muslim university. | 25 | |
238547740 | Yoruba | Nigerian agriculturalists organized into small city-states. | 26 | |
238547741 | Boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 27 | |
238547742 | Manzikert | Seljuk Turk victory in 1071 over Byzantium; resulted in loss of the empire's rich Anatolian territory | 28 | |
238547743 | Vladimir I | Ruler of Russian kingdom of Kiev from 980 to 1015; converted kingdom to Christianity | 29 | |
238547744 | Thomas Aquinas | creator of one of the great syntheses of medieval learning; taught at University of Paris; author of several Summas; believed that through reason it was possible to know much about natural order, moral law, and nature of God | 30 | |
238547745 | Clovis | King of the Franks | 31 | |
238547746 | Gregory VII | Pope during the 11th century who attempted to free Church from interference of feudal lords; quarreled with Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV over practice of lay investiture. | 32 | |
238547747 | Hanseatic League | An organization of cities in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance. | 33 | |
238547748 | Pope Urban II | pope who called for the first crusade to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims | 34 |
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