AP World History 2.2 Flashcards

207341051	Mamluks	Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries; they founded their own state in Egypt and Syria from the thirteenth to early sixteenth centuries	0
207341052	Medieval	Pertaining to the middle ages of European history	1
207341053	Mexica	The name given to themselves by the Aztec people	2
207341054	Middle Ages	The period of European history traditionally given as 500-1500	3
207341055	Minaret	A tower attached to a mosque from which Muslims are called to worship	4
207341056	Mississippians	Were a Chalcolithic (copper age) mound-building Native American culture that flourished in the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1500 A.D., varying regionally	5
207341057	Mita	A labor system used by Andean societies in which community members shared work owed to rulers and the religious community	6
207341058	Moldboard Plow	A form of plow consisting of a plowshare (blade) and hitch attached to livestock. It turns the soil in one run across the field, depositing the weeds and remains of the previous crop under the soil and raising the rain-percolated nutrients back to the surface. This plow also allowed for plowing while the ground was wet.	7
207341059	Mound-Builders	In North American archaeology, name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mts. The greatest concentrations of mounds are found in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys.	8
207341060	Neo-Confucianism	A philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism	9
207341061	Parallel Descent	In Incan society, descent through both the mother and father	10
207341062	Parliament	A representative assembly	11
207341063	People of the Book	A term applied by Islamic governments to Muslims, Christians, and Jews in reference to the fact that all three religions had a holy book	12
207341064	Quechua	Andean society also known as the Inca	13
207341065	Quipus	A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records	14
207341066	Quran	The holy book of Islam	15
207341067	Ramadan	The holy month of Islam which commemorates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad; fasting is required during this month	16
208910344	scholar-gentry	The Chinese class of well educated men from whom many of the bureaucrats were chosen	17
208910345	Shariah	The body of law that governs Muslim society	18
208910346	Shinto	The traditional Japanese religion based on veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature	19
208910347	Shogunate	The rule of the shoguns in Japan	20
208910348	Toltecs	Ancient civilization of Mexico. The name in Nahuatl means "master builders." The formed a warrior aristocracy that gained ascendancy in the Valley of Mexico c. AD 900 after the fall of Teotihuacán.	21
208910349	Umma	The community of all Muslims believers	22
208910350	Zakat	Religious tax, one of the five basic requirements (arkan or "pillars") of Islam. All adult Muslims of sound mind and body with a set level of income and assets are expected to pay zakat.	23