APWH Vocabulary Period 3 set #10 Flashcards

Regional and Trans-regional Interactions, c. 600 C.E to c.1450

234466511	Abacus	a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves	0
234466512	Austronesian	people who as early as 2000 B.C.E began to explore and settle islands of the Pacific Ocean basin.	1
234466513	Black Death	an epidemic of bacterial plague and especially bubonic plague that spread rapidly in Europe and Asia in the 14th century	2
234466514	Chimor	political grouping of the chimu culture that ruled the northern coast of Peru, from 850-1470	3
234466515	Feudalism	a system of political organization prevailing in Medieval Europe in which a vassal renders service to a lord and receives protection and land in return.	4
234466516	Gothic Architecture	a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries	5
234466517	Harem	a house or part of a house allotted to women in a Muslim household.	6
234466518	Ka'aba	Main shrine in Mecca, goal of Muslims embarking on hajj	7
234466519	Malay Sailors	Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana	8
234466520	Mexica	The name given to themselves by the Aztec people	9
234466521	Mita	in the Incan empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.	10
234466522	Neo-Confucianism	philosophy that attempted to merge certain basic elements of Confucian and Buddhist thought; most important of the early Neo-confucianists was the Chinese thinker Zhu-Xi	11
234466523	Quipus	Incan mnemonic aid comprised of different colored strings and knots that served to record events in the absence of a written test.	12
234466524	Seppuku	a Japanese term for ritual suicide committed by the samurai when he had been dishonored.	13
234466525	Shogunate	a Japanese military leader who ruled in place of the emperor	14
234466526	Syncretism	the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)	15
234466527	Yuan dynasty	Chinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongol ruler Khubilai Khan	16