AP World Flash Cards Flashcards

283117362	5 Pillars of Islam	One God, Prayer 5 times per day, Charity, Ramadan, the Haij	0
283117363	Sultanate	A Muslim government	1
283117364	Caliph	A spiritual and political leader of Islam claiming succession from Muhammad	2
283117365	Mamluks	Slave soldiers who converted for Islam, they rose to power in Egypt. Stopped the Mongols 13th century	3
283117366	Sufis	Muslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and S.E. Asia	4
283117367	Mansa Musa	King of Mali, whose famous haij caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca	5
283117368	Ghana	West African kingdom which traded for gold and salt 6th- 13th centuries	6
283117369	Mali	West African kingdom established by Sundiata and later led by Mansa Musa in the 14th century	7
283117370	Griots	African storyteller, advisor, and historian	8
283117371	Byzantine Empire	The remainder of the Roman Empire in the East, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453	9
283117372	The Great Schism	A division between the Western Christian church and the Eastern (Orthodox) church in 1054	10
283117373	Ibn Battuta	Muslim traveler c. 14th century who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to So. East Asia	11
283117374	Feudalism	A political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty, and the granting of land to nobles or warriors	12
283117375	Guilds	Economic associations between people in the same business or craft	13
283117376	Chinampas	Artificial islands on which Mesoamericans grew crops	14
283117377	Aztec	Mesoamerican kingdom which built its capital, Tenochitlan, on a lake. Conquered by Cortez in 1519	15
283117378	Inca	South American kingdom known for building a vast system of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532	16
283117379	Quipu	A system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across their empire	17
283117380	Neo Confucianism	A revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which effected women negatively	18
283117381	Gunpowder	Invented in China during the Song Dynasty	19
283117382	Samurai	The equivalent of the knight in Europe	20
283117383	Tribute	A payment to a government, could be labor or goods	21
283117384	Golden Horde	Mongol Empire which occupied Russia from the 13th century to the 15th century	22
283117385	Humanism	Western European movement which stressed the power stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th c	23
283117386	Zheng He	Chinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used to 100 yard long treasure junks	24
283117387	Marco Polo	13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for 17 years	25
283117388	Islam	Monotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622	26
283117389	Indian Ocean Trading Network	trade network which included East Africa, the Middle East, India, So. East Asia, and China	27
283117390	Trans-Saharan Trading Network	Trade route centered on salt and gold	28
283117391	Swahili	African language derived from Bantu, Arabic, and Persian	29
283117392	Syncretism	The combining of two different things to make something new	30
283117393	Silk Road	Ancient trade route running from China, to Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean	31
283117394	Crusades	An attempt to take back the "holy land" from the Muslims. Resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe	32
283117395	Mongols	Nomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire up to that time	33
283117396	Black Death	14th century pandemic which came from China and killed at least 1/4 of the Europeans	34
283117397	Renaissance	The reawakening of Western Europe, the revival of Roman art and ideas	35
283117398	Genghis Khan	The unifier of the Mongols	36
283117399	Joan of Arc	French leader who helped to expel the English but was burned at the stake in 1431	37
283117400	Constantinople	Capital of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the Ottomans in 1453	38
283117401	Vikings	Scandinavian people who invaded Europe between the 8th and 12th centuries	39