5562081805 | Allah | The name for God in Arabic | 0 | |
5562095863 | Astrolabe | An instrument for making astronomical measurements typically the altitudes of celestial bodies and latitude before the sextant was invented. | 1 | |
5562116475 | Caliph | Considered to be a descendant of Muhammad, a ruler of a kingdom of Islam. | 2 | |
5562132657 | Dar al-Islam | Literally translates to the house of Islam. Used for countries which were ruled under Muslim rule. | 3 | |
5562146270 | Five Pillars of Islam | The framework of Muslim life; Shahadah, Salat, Zakat, Sawm and Hajj. | 4 | |
5562161014 | Hadith | A collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad that, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna) constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran. | 5 | |
5562181972 | Hajj | An annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, the most holy city of the Muslims. | 6 | |
5562194925 | Harem | The separate part of a Muslim household reserved for wives, concubines, and female servants. | 7 | |
5562201071 | Hijrah | The migration of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yanthrib (now Medina) in 622 CE | 8 | |
5562212378 | Jihad | A war or struggle against unbelievers. The spiritual struggle within oneself against sin. | 9 | |
5562226832 | Ka'aba | A building at the center of Islam's most sacred mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. | 10 | |
5562235260 | Mamluks | Originally slave boys of the Abbasid caliphs of the Islamic Empire, non-muslim boys who were bought and brought up as slaves and later trained as soldiers in the Sunni slave army. | 11 | |
5562252191 | Minaret | A tower in Islam where the faithful are called to prayer five times each day by a muezzin or crier. | 12 | |
5562261171 | Mosque | A place of warship for followers of Islam. | 13 | |
5562269719 | Muslim | A follower of the religion of Islam. | 14 | |
5562278447 | People of the Book | Jews and Christians as regarded by Muslims. | 15 | |
5562280990 | Quran | The holy book in the religion of Islam. Believed to be a revelation from God. | 16 | |
5562290280 | Ramadan | The ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset. | 17 | |
5562303790 | Shariah | The Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Quran and the traditions of the prophet describing the penalties for lawbreaking. | 18 | |
5562315910 | Shi'ite | A branch of Islam sometimes called Shia, based on people believed to be the successors of Muhammad. | 19 | |
5562329121 | Sufi | A Muslim ascetic and mystic. | 20 | |
5562333247 | Sultan | A Muslim sovereign. | 21 | |
5562337047 | Sunni | A branch of Islam sometimes referred to as orthodox Islam. | 22 | |
5562353073 | Orthodox | Conforming to what is generally or traditionally accepted as right or true; established and approved. | 23 | |
5562363996 | Umma | The whole community of Muslims bound together by ties of religion. | 24 | |
5562369096 | Bakufu | The Tokugawa Shogunate, the last feudal Japanese military government from 1603 to 1867. | 25 | |
5562376648 | Bushido | The code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai. | 26 | |
5562383163 | Daimyo | One of the lords/vassals of the shogun in feudal Japan. | 27 | |
5562389171 | Flying Money | The paper currency of the Tang dynasty in China, one of the first paper currencies. | 28 | |
5562396275 | Foot binding | Sometimes called lotus feet, the process of binding feet in China so that they wouldn't grow. It was considered a sign of beauty and very painful. | 29 | |
5562412821 | Gempei Wars | A conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Hapan. It resulted in the fall of the Taira clan and the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate under Minamoto no Yoritomo in 1192. | 30 | |
5562435344 | Junks | An ancient Chinese sailing ship design that is still in use today, used as early as 100 CE in the Song dynasty. | 31 | |
5562450972 | Kowtow | To kneel and touch the ground with the forehead in worship or submission as part of Chinese custom. | 32 | |
5562467556 | Neo-Confucianism | A movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China aroudnm 1000 CE in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism. | 33 | |
5562486082 | Samurai | The military nobility and officer caste of medival and early-modern Japan. | 34 | |
5562506367 | Scholar-gentry | Scholar-officials sometimes known as gentlemen, bureaucrats were civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Han dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty in 1912. | 35 | |
5562527549 | Seppuku | An honorable form of suicide for when a samurai or shogun commits a crime. | 36 | |
5562532481 | Serf | An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate. | 37 | |
5562539939 | Shinto | A Japanese religion dating from the early eighth century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits in sacred power within inanimate things. | 38 | |
5562549122 | Shogun | A military dictator in Japan during the period from 1185 to 1868, the typically rulers of a country appointed by the Emperor. | 39 | |
5562560866 | Shogunate | A line of shoguns under a single military government. | 40 | |
5562570169 | Tea Ceremony | A way of presenting matcha tea in Japanese culture. | 41 | |
5562577878 | Tribute | A sort of tax a conquered people pay the conquerors. | 42 | |
5562581977 | Chivalry | The moral and religious code of a knight in the medieval time. | 43 | |
5562591710 | Feudalism | A dominant social system in medieval Europe where the nobility held the land from the crown in exchange for military service. Vassals were tenants of the nobles, living on the land and tending to it, giving the noble labor, goods and homage. | 44 | |
5562608496 | Fief | The land given to a noble in exchange for military service to the crown. | 45 | |
5562614719 | Gothic architecture | An architecture style, popular during the high and late medieval period, coming from Romanesque architecture and followed by Renaissance architecture. | 46 | |
5562633861 | Investiture | The action of formally investing a person with honors and/or a rank. | 47 | |
5562642491 | Magna Carta | The charter agreed to by King John of England with the Barons. | 48 | |
5562654672 | Manorialism | Also called the seignorialism, a social political and economic system where the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord. | 49 | |
5562668674 | Medieval | Referring to the Middle Ages | 50 | |
5562680367 | Middle Ages | A time period in Europe, where there was little social structure, centralized government, followed by the renaissance period. Sometimes called the Dark Ages. | 51 | |
5562692729 | Moldboard Plow | A tool or farm implement used in farming for initial cultivation of soil. | 52 | |
5562719731 | Parliament | The highest legislature in the UK, consisting of the sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons. | 53 | |
5562726916 | Vassal | A holder of land of t | 54 |
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