Ap World History Flash Cards Flashcards

chapters 12-16 traditons and encounters vocabulary

107761648	Angkor	Southeast Asian Khmer kingdom (889-1432) that was centered around the temple cities of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat.	0
107761649	Bahkti	Indian movement that attempted to transcend the differences between Hinduism and Islam.	1
107761650	Chola	Southern Indian Hindu kingdom (850-1267), a tightly centralized state that dominated sea trade.	2
107761651	Dhow	Indian, Persian, and Arab ships, one hundred to four hundred tons, that sailed and traded throughout the Indian Ocean basin.	3
107761652	Funan	An empire spanning the first to the sixth century C.E. in present-day Cambodia and Vietnam that adopted Sanskrit as its official language.	4
107761653	Srivijaya	Southeast Asian kingdom (670-1025), based on the island of Sumatra, that used a powerful navy to dominate trade.	5
107761654	Sultanate of Delhi	Islamic state in northern India established by Mahmud's successors in 1206 C.E. that began to establish the presence of Islam on the Indian subcontinent	6
107761655	Vijayanagar	Southern Indian kingdom (1336-1565) that later fell to the Mughals.	7
107761656	Bushido	The "way of the warrior," the code of conduct of the Japanese samurai that was based on loyalty and honor.	8
107761657	Equal-field system-	Chinese system during the Han dynasty in which the goal was to ensure an equitable distribution of land	9
107761658	Grand Canal	Project that integrated the economies of northern and southern China	10
107761659	Heian	Japanese period (794-1185), a brilliant cultural era notable for the world's first novel, Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji	11
107761660	Nara era	Japanese period (710-794), centered around city of Nara, that was the highest point of Chinese influence.	12
107761661	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 (1130-1200).	13
107761662	Samurai	A Japanese warrior who lived by the code of bushido	14
107761663	Seppuku	A Japanese term for ritual suicide committed by the samurai when he had been dishonored.	15
107761664	Shintoism	Indigenous Japanese religion that emphasizes purity, clan loyalty, and the divinity of the emperor.	16
107761665	Shogun	Japanese military leader who ruled in place of the emperor	17
107761666	song	Chinese dynasty (960-1279) that was marked by an increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan society.	18