600-1450 Vocab Flashcards
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| 39077332 | Islam | a monotheistic religion that developed in Arabia in the 7th century | 0 | |
| 39077333 | Muslim | a follower of Islam | 1 | |
| 39077334 | Bedouin | Nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian Peninsula, early converts to Islam | 2 | |
| 39077335 | Caliph | political and religious successor to Muhammad | 3 | |
| 39077336 | sharia | a body of law governing the lives of Muslims | 4 | |
| 39077337 | dhimmi | people of the book - applied as inclusive terms to Christians & Jews in Islamic territories, eventually included Zoroastrians, Hindus, and Buddhists | 5 | |
| 39077338 | Crusade | expeditions in which medieval Christian warriors sought to recover control of the Holy Land from the Muslims | 6 | |
| 39077339 | stateless socities | cultural groups in which authority is shared by lineages of equal powere instead of being exercised by a central government | 7 | |
| 39077340 | animism | the blief that spirits are present in animals, plants, and other natural objects | 8 | |
| 39077341 | griots | West-African storyteller / served as keepers of tradition and advisors to Kings of Mali | 9 | |
| 39077342 | patriarch | head of the Orthodox Church in Byzantium | 10 | |
| 39077343 | orthodox | referring to the split in Christianity, Eastern orthodox officials viewed themselves as the true heirs of Rome | 11 | |
| 39077344 | schism | a split or division - especially a formal split within a Christian church | 12 | |
| 39077345 | tscar / czar | a Russian emperor (from the Russian for Caesar) | 13 | |
| 39077346 | manorialism | system that described economic and political relations between landlords and peasant laborers - involved a hierarchy of reciprocal obligations that exchanged labor or rent for access to land | 14 | |
| 39077347 | feudalism | social organization of the Middle Ages whereby grants of land or fiefs were exchanged for formal oaths of allegiance and promises of loyal service | 15 | |
| 39077348 | fief | an estate granted to a vassal by a lord under the feudal system of Medieval Europe | 16 | |
| 39077349 | serfs | peasant legally bound to live on a lord's estate | 17 | |
| 39077350 | Pope | leader of the Catholic Church in Rome | 18 | |
| 39077351 | Papacy | the system of government of the Roman Catholic Church of which the pope is supreme head | 19 | |
| 39077352 | investiture | practice of state appointment of bishops (ie King appoints a church bishop, not the Pope.) | 20 |