Unit 3 Flashcards

276271860	Five Pillars of Islam (NOT)	Pilgrimage to Medina	0
276271861	Caliph	The office of the political and religious successor of Muhammad	1
276271862	Abbasids moved center of their empire to	Baghdad	2
276271863	Nature of Abbasid Gov.	Abbasids outdid the Umayyads in establishing and absolutist government symoblized by the growing powers of the wazirs and the sinister presence of the executioner	3
276271864	primary cultural contribution of Muslims during Abbasids	The Muslims were able to recover and preserve the works of the ancient philosophers as well as transmit ideas and culture from one civilization to another	4
276271865	responsible for conversions of inidans to islam	soldiers and shi'a exiles	5
276271866	cultural advance from contact of muslims and indians	Muslims adopted the Indian system of mathematical notation	6
276271867	muslims treatment of hindu and buddhist residents	Hindus and Buddhists were treated as dhimmis or "peoples of the book"	7
276271868	Abbasid Empire trade	long-distance trade with africa, the mediterranean, india, and china continued to flourish despite periodic interruption	8
276271869	impact of crusades on christian west	Christians adopted military techniques, words, scientific learning, and Arabic numerals among other things	9
276271870	Abbasids slavery	elite demanded growing numbers of both male and female slaves for concubines and domestic service	10
276271871	impact of islam on sub-saharan africa	spread of islam into africa brought larege areas into the global economy	11
276271872	difference between african and other post classical civ.	african civilizations built somewhat less clearly on prior precedent than did other postclassical sociteties	12
276271873	emporer attempted restoration of untied roman empire 533	Justinian	13
276271874	urbanization within byzantine empire	constantinople controlled teh economy adn grew in enormous size, but the other cities were relatively small	14
276271875	converted to orthodox christianity	russia	15
276271876	scandinavian invaders	vikings	16
276271877	feudalism	relationships between members of the military elite based on a reciprocal exchange of land for military service and loyalty	17
276271878	post classical societies in americas	remained entirely separate from those of the Old World	18
276271879	NOT a characteristic of american civilizations	monotheistic practices	19
276271880	chinampas	aztec innovation in intensive agriculture in the aquatic environments of the lakes of central Mexico 1	20
276271881	population of americas	population estimates of the americas continue to be revised upward	21
276271882	urbanization in china during tang-song era	chinese urbanization mushroomed during tang song era with a higher proportion of the popoulation living in cities	22
276271883	NOT technological innovation of tang-song era	paper	23
276271884	asian areas drawn to chinese cultural political models	agrarian societies in the east and south	24
276271885	relationship of imperical court to the provincial military elite	in the absence of an imperial military force, law and order broke down, leading both the emperor and high officials to hire provincial lords and their military retainters	25
276271886	religion of korean elite	buddhism	26
276271887	failure fo chinese to conquer vietnam	vietnamese resistance to chinese crosses both class and gender barriers	27
276271888	Chinggis Khan field tactic	heavy calvary attacks on the flanks after an initial frontal attack and feigned retreat	28
276271889	european population died 14th cent. plague	1/3	29
276271890	ethnocentrism	practice of judging other peoples by the standards and practices of one's own culture of ethnic group	30