AP World 6 Chapter Test Flashcards

110517184	Abbu Al-abas	founder of the Abbasid dynasty	0
110517185	Abbasid Caliphate	overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital at Baghdad	1
110517186	Mecca	birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed; ritual center of the islamic religion	2
110517187	Muslim	one who submits to the will of god; Followers of Islam	3
110517188	Islam	religion founded by the Prophet Muhammed on the basis of his divine revelations which were collected into the Quran; Islam calls on all people to recognize one god, Allah who rewards or punishes believer after death according the way they lead their lives	4
110517189	Muhammed	arab prophet; founder of islam	5
110517190	5 pillars of Islam	prayer 5 times a day, fasting, hodge, wealth sharing, confession of faith	6
110517191	Medina	agricultural city in western Arabia to which Muhammed and his followers fled to escape persecution	7
110784850	Quran	sacred text of Islam composed of the divine revelations of the prophet Muhammed	8
110784851	Caliphate	office established in the succession to the Prophet Muhammed to rule the islamic empire; the name of that empire	9
110784852	Shi'ites	believed that Muhammed's cousin, Ali, was the natural heir; God vests leadership through decendents	10
110784853	Sunnis	believe that the community should select its on leadership; supported the 1st 3 caliphs; majority religion in most islamic countries	11
110784854	Umayyad Caliphate	1st hereditary dyasty of the Muslim caliphs w/ the succession of Yazid	12
110784855	Sultan	arabic title that means power; used by the Seljuk family in the Turkish, Muslim state	13
110784856	Shar'ia	law of islam; foundation of islamic civilization	14
110784857	Mamluks	turkic, military slaves for the Abbasid Caliphate	15
110784858	Ibn Rushd (Averroes)	wrote Aristotelian philosophical writings	16
110784859	Crusades	fighting between the Christians and Muslims for the Holy Land of Jerusalem and the spread of Islam	17
110784860	Charlemagne	King of the Franks (emperor); est. the Carolingian empire through a series of conquests, sponsered a brief intellectual revival (although illiterate himself)	18
110784861	Byzantine Empire	eastern portion of the Roman empire; fell to the Ottomans	19
110784862	Hagia Sophia	greatest Byzantne architectural monument (cathedral) located in Constantinople; dates back to the Justinian reign; means "sacred wisdom"	20
110784863	Cyrrilic Alphabet	writing system perfected by Cyril and Methodius that came to be used by the slavic christians advering to the Orthodox.	21
110784864	Fief	grant of land in return for military service	22
110784865	Serf	agricultural laborers who were legally bound to a lord's property who owed dues	23
110784866	Vassals	noble followers to which kings granted fiefs	24
110784867	Papacy	central administration of the Roman Catholic Church of which the Pope is the head	25
110784868	Holy Roman Empire	loose federation of German states and principalities headed by an emperor elected by the princes	26
110784869	monasticism	religion requiering followers to live apart from secular society and lead a life of celibacy, obediance, and poverty	27
111004611	Benedict of Nursia	Introduced monosticism and wrote rules to rules to govern the monks' behaviors; est. monastaries in Italy	28
111004612	Varangians	Swedish Vikings who pursued raiding and trade and built kingdoms along the river of Eastern Europe and Russia	29
111364976	Grand Canal	1100 mile long waterway connecting the Yellow and Yanzi rivers; started by the Han and completed by the Sui	30
111364977	Li Shimin	founder of the Tang empire; led the expansion of the empire into Central Asia	31
111364978	Tang Empire	unified China and part of Central Asia; capital located at Chang'an	32
111364979	Chang'an	capital of the Tang empire; became the center of the tributary system	33
111393248	Wu Zhao	female empress who sezed control o the gov't, claiming to be a bodhisattva; favored buddhist and daoists in her court over confucianists	34
111393249	Song empire	empire in southern China, distinguised forits advances in technology, medicine, astronomy, and math	35
111393250	junk	large, flat bottom ship produced in the Tang, Ming, and Song empires; designed for long-distance comercial travel	36
111393251	Neo-confucianism	new approaches to interpretating classic confucian texts	37
111393252	Koryo	Korean kingdom that was destroyed by Mongol invasion	38
111393253	Tale of Genji	novel about Fujiwara court culture written by Murasaki Shikibu (female)	39
111393254	Kamakura Shoganate	Japan's 1st decentralized military gov't (located at Honshu)	40
111393255	Annam (Dai Vet)	early Chinese term for the rice-based agricultural Vietnam; depended on the Red River Valley and Mekong River; its rival was Chinampa	41