Unit 3 Vocab Flashcards
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248937927 | 5 pillars | make a declaration of faith, pray five times daily, give to charity, fast from sunrise to sunset during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca | 0 | |
248937928 | Abbasid | The dynasty that came after the Umayyads. Devoted their energy to trade, scholorship, and the arts. | 1 | |
248937929 | Abu Bakr | first caliph after death of muhammad | 2 | |
248937930 | Allah | Muslim name for the one and only God | 3 | |
248937931 | Alms | Charity | 4 | |
248937932 | Caliph | The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | 5 | |
248937933 | Dar al Islam | an Arabic term that means the "house of Islam" and that refers to lands under Islamic rule | 6 | |
248937934 | Hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca | 7 | |
249808878 | Jihad | ..., a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels | 8 | |
249808879 | Ka'ba | ..., ("cube") a pre-islamic cubed building in mecca believed by muslims to have been built by Abraham. It is the center of the Muslim Pilgrimage | 9 | |
249808880 | Mecca | ..., the holiest city of Islam; Muhammad's birthplace | 10 | |
249808881 | Medina | ..., City in western Arabia to which the Prophet Muhammad and his followers emigrated in 622 to escape persecution in Mecca. (p. 231) | 11 | |
249808882 | Muhammad | ..., Founder of Islam, considered the greatest prophet in Islam | 12 | |
249808883 | Quran | ..., the holy book of Islam | 13 | |
249808884 | Shiria | ..., islamic law | 14 | |
249808885 | Shiite | ..., a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs | 15 | |
249808886 | Sufi | ..., a Muslim who represents the mystical dimension of Islam | 16 | |
249808887 | Sultan | ..., Muslim ruler | 17 | |
249808888 | Sunni | ..., a member of the branch of Islam that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad | 18 | |
249808889 | Umayyad | ..., the first dynasty of Arab caliphs whose capital was Damascus | 19 | |
249808890 | Umma | ..., the community of all muslims | 20 | |
249808891 | Conscription | ..., a military draft | 21 | |
249808892 | Draft animals | ..., animals used for pulling loads | 22 | |
249808893 | Equal field system | ..., This Chinese system allotted land to individuals and their families according to the land's fertility and the recipients' needs. | 23 | |
249808894 | Foot binding | ..., practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 24 | |
249808895 | Grand canal | ..., an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China | 25 | |
249808896 | Heian Japan | ..., (794-1185 C.E.) local rulers on the island of Honshu recognized the emperor as Japan's supreme political authority, but, unlike China, Japanese emperors rarely ruled; they only acted as figure heads. Fujiwara family had the power. Two sections of rule: imperial house and ruling parties and factions. Culture of Heian was influenced by Chinese traditions. | 26 | |
249808897 | Kowtow | ..., a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 27 | |
249808898 | Mercenaries | ..., hired soldiers | 28 | |
249808899 | Nara japan | ..., Japanese period (710-794) centered around city of Nara, that was the highest point of Chinese influence. | 29 | |
249808900 | Neo-Confucianism | ..., term that describes the resurgence of Confucianism and the influence of Confucian scholars during the T'ang Dynasty; a unification of Daoist or Buddhist metaphysics with Confucian pragmatism | 30 | |
249808901 | Porcelain | ..., ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic | 31 | |
249808902 | Samurai | ..., class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land | 32 | |
249808903 | Shinto | ..., the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan | 33 | |
249808904 | Shogun | ..., a hereditary military dictator of Japan | 34 | |
249808905 | Song dynasty | ..., the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279 | 35 | |
249808906 | Sui dynasty | The short dynasty between the Han and the Tang; built the Grand Canal, strengthened the government, and introduced Buddhism to China | 36 | |
249808907 | Tang dynasty | dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria | 37 | |
249808908 | Terrace farming | ..., a farming system that is in the form of steps going up a mountain | 38 | |
249808909 | Tributary Relationship | ..., A relationship between two countries where one gives gifts to another in exchange for protection | 39 | |
249808910 | Uighurs | ..., A group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongolia and Central Asia. | 40 | |
249808911 | Wu zhao | ..., the only woman to ever declare herself empress, she was a member of the Tang Dynasty; takes over when Li Shimin dies; she used trickery to get power, cuts taxes, raises salaries of government officials, encourages trade and buddhism, takes korea as a tributary state, reforms the civil service exams, builds more school for more job opprotunities, takes critism from Li Bo and improves | 41 | |
249823087 | White huns | nomadic invaders from central Asia; invaded India; disrupted Gupta administration | 42 | |
249823088 | King harsha | (r. 606-648) temporarily restored unified rule in most of northern India. | 43 | |
249823089 | Axum | trading center, and powerful ancient kingdom in northern present-day Ethiopia | 44 | |
249823090 | Emporia | Trading centers where merchants came from all around to sell things | 45 | |
249823091 | Byzantine empire | a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 46 | |
249823092 | Ceasaropapism | belive that emperor rules under rule of emperor | 47 | |
249823093 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians | 48 | |
249823094 | Hagai Sophia | "Holy Wisdom" which was a church built by Justinian | 49 | |
249823095 | Themes | Like states | 50 | |
249823096 | Germanic states | what the western Rome became after fall | 51 | |
249823097 | Carolingians | Royal house of Franks after 8th century until their replacement in 10th century. | 52 | |
249823098 | Charlemenge | The king, he was christian, forced germany to become christian. | 53 | |
249823099 | Vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 54 | |
249823100 | Bezant | a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire | 55 | |
249823101 | Feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 56 | |
249823102 | Roman catholic | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy | 57 | |
249823103 | Eastern orthodox | derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites | 58 | |
249823104 | Schism | division of a group into opposing factions | 59 | |
249823105 | Pope Gregory 1 | believed that priests should be celibate, sent missionaries to England, made new Church | 60 |