This special set of flashcards is to help me study for my MAJOR exam coming up this Friday. Hopefully this helps.
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| 270748142 | connection | a link between people that spread ideas. | 0 | |
| 270748143 | history | a study of humanities past;explaining how global processing was developed to survive..and how these things caused change. | 1 | |
| 270748144 | diffusion | the spread of a practice,belief,culture,or technology within a community or communities. | 2 | |
| 270748145 | nation | a group that has:cosmopolitan culture,borders,centralized government,and instruments of power. | 3 | |
| 270748146 | janissaries | a coercive labor system in which christian boys were foot soldiers and converted into muslim. | 4 | |
| 270748147 | gunpowder empires | Ottoman, Safavids, Mughal | 5 | |
| 270748148 | ghinggis khan legacy | tolerance, written language, trade/crafts,legal code:Jasagn. | 6 | |
| 270748149 | umayyads | sunni, capital of damascus, excluded non-muslims,expanded to spain,promoted trade, no religious conversion, accomplished an expansion in their economic system | 7 | |
| 270748150 | tributary state | when smaller states depend upon a larger state that provides it with resources &markets. | 8 | |
| 270748151 | westernization | the culture of the west/Byzantine empire. | 9 | |
| 270748152 | theocracy | when the laws of religion are the laws of the government | 10 | |
| 270748153 | Islam | submission to the will of Allah. | 11 | |
| 270748154 | Five Pillars of Islam | 1).Faith, 2).Prayer 3).donate(2.5%), 4).fast during the holy month of Ramadan, 5).pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime. | 12 | |
| 270748155 | caliph | the political, religious leader of Islam. | 13 | |
| 270748156 | Abu Bakr | the first caliph/-also: a leader, judge, and political leader. | 14 | |
| 270748157 | feudalism | a political,economic, and social system based on loyalty & military service system of government where land is exchanged for food,service,/loyalty. | 15 | |
| 270748158 | tang dynasty | expands to the west to control more of the slik road,used the gentry,a foreign dynasty that originated in the west,expanded tade in the Indian maritime system..etc. | 16 | |
| 270748159 | song dynasty | surrounded by enemies,merchant class,development of more literacy/education,(neo-confucianism),magnetic compass,stern-rutter,junk boat,flying paper $. | 17 | |
| 270748160 | Mesoamerica | stretches from southern mexico to northern Hondorus; located in a densely forested area/built platforms that were filled w/ trash. | 18 | |
| 270748161 | conduit | connection that allows something to flow from one point to another. | 19 | |
| 270748162 | Mongol Yoke | once a year tax of money/luxury goods that the Mongols would collect only in the month of October. | 20 | |
| 270748163 | Democracy | male citizens who own property. | 21 | |
| 270748164 | Acropolis/Agora | a fortified hilltop/ a meeting place. | 22 | |
| 270748165 | Phoenicians | phonetic language:22 letters, had colonies, obtained in purple dye. | 23 | |
| 270748166 | Assyrians | had a military, close relationships w/ the gods, government, didn't force people to adopt to the religion,conquered land-provinces. | 24 | |
| 270748167 | Greeks | weren't unified due to their goegraphy,had polises:trade& had colonies for food. | 25 | |
| 270748168 | Egypt | Had advances in chemistry,medicine, and astronomy. | 26 | |
| 270748169 | Agricultural Revolution | 1).Rise in temp.,2).wild seed plants,3).cultural diffusion,4).change in animal pattern. | 27 | |
| 270748170 | Legalism | Had strict laws,harsh punishment; "strengthening the trunk, while weakening the branches." | 28 | |
| 270748171 | complex institutions | provided patterns/organization to help a civilization survive. | 29 | |
| 270859142 | Ice Age | known as the Paleolithic age. | 30 | |
| 270859143 | Bronze Age | 8,000 B.C.E-600 C.E., had bronze and iron/metal weapons& tools, had urbanized culture and urban lifestyle. | 31 | |
| 270859144 | husbandry | controlling your food supply. | 32 | |
| 270859145 | intensified agriculture | humanity had more food & food/knowledge. | 33 | |
| 270859146 | Neolithic Age | used polished stone, wood, bone, and leather during this age; also humans begin to control the food supply. | 34 | |
| 270859147 | Pedro Alvares Cabral | this person dicovered Brazil, and claimed it to be the Portuguese. | 35 | |
| 270859148 | Yongle Encyclopedia | a collection of chinese doctrines. | 36 | |
| 270859149 | Grass and water | the resource in which pastorialists needed to prosper: | 37 | |
| 270859150 | East Africa | Humanity originated/began in: | 38 | |
| 270859151 | Pubic work | examples that pertain to this term: monumental structures, defensive walls,systems of irrigation, etc.. | 39 |
