AP WORLD HISTORY VOCABULARY Flashcards

5784586979	Middle ages	the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance	0
5784586980	Manoralisim	political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord	1
5784586981	Serfs	a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.	2
5784586982	Clovis	king of the Franks 481-511.	3
5784586983	Charles Martel	ruler of the Franks 714-741 (grandfather of Charlemagne).	4
5784586984	Gothic	noting or pertaining to a style of architecture	5
5784599568	Guilds	an organization of persons with related interests, goals.	6
5784586985	Yangdi	the second and penultimate emperor of the Sui dynasty.	7
5784586986	Xuanzong	was the 7th emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China,	8
5784586987	Zhoa kuagyin	Emperor of China (960-976) who founded the Song dynasty and unified much of China.	9
5784586988	Neo-Confucianism	a movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.	10
5784586989	Grand canal	a canal in E China, extending S from Tientsin to Hangchow. 900 miles long.	11
5784586990	Junks	a seagoing ship with a traditional Chinese design and used primarily in Chinese waters, having square sails spread by battens, a high stern, and usually a flat bottom.	12
5784586991	Footbinding	the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.	13
5784586992	Taika reforms	were a set of doctrines established by Emperor Kōtoku	14
5784586993	Fujiwara	a member of a powerful family in Japan who exercised power as regents in the name of the emperor.	15
5784586994	Bushi	a genre of Japanese folk music.	16
5784586995	Samuri	a member of the hereditary warrior class in feudal Japan.	17
5784586996	Shoguns	a hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan.	18
5784586997	Liyvan		19
5784586998	Charlemagne's	king of the Franks as Charles I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire	20
5784586999	William the conqueror	("the Conqueror"), duke of Normandy; king of England (son of Robert I, duke of Normandy)	21
5784587000	Magna Carta	the "great charter" of English liberties, forced from King John by the English barons and sealed at Runnymede	22
5784587001	Urban ll	French pope whose sermons called for the First Crusade	23
5784587002	Investiture	when a government official, a judge, or a head of state is formally put into office or promoted to a higher rank.	24
5784587003	Black death	the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe	25
5784587004	Zenorchan Buddhism	the most well-known school of Buddhism in the west.	26
5784587005	Gempei wars	was a conflict between the Taira and Minamoto clans during the late-Heian period of Japan.	27
5784587006	Minamoto taira	was a major Japanese clan of samurai.	28
5784587007	Sinification	is a process whereby non-Han Chinese societies come under the influence of Han Chinese state and society.	29
5784587008	Trung sisters	heroines of the first Vietnamese independence movement, who headed a rebellion against the Chinese Han-dynasty overlords and briefly established an autonomous state.	30
5784587009	Trihn chinggis khan	Mongol conqueror who united the Mongol tribes and forged an empire stretching from China to the Danube River and into Persia.	31
5784587010	Batu Golden Horde	the group of settled Mongols who ruled over Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and the Caucasus from the 1240s until 1502.	32
5784587011	Berke		33
5784587012	Zhu yuan zhang	was a peasant who became the leader of a rebellion against the Yuan rulers called the Red Turbans. Then became the first emperor of the Ming Empire.	34
5784587013	Nguyen	the family name of a major Vietnamese royal dynasty.	35
5784587014	Khagon	town/village in Madhya Pradesh state of in India	36
5784587015	Daimyos	one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.	37
5784587016	Ming dynasty	A major dynasty that ruled China. It was marked by a great expansion of Chinese commerce into East Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.	38
5784587017	Tang Dynasty	was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period	39
5784587018	Gregory IVV	one of the greatest popes of the medieval church	40
5784587019	Toltecs	a member of an American Indian people that flourished in Mexico before the Aztecs.	41
5784587020	Aztecs	a member of the American Indian people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest of the 16th century.	42
5784587021	Inca	a ruler or member of the royal family in the Incan empire	43
5784587022	Empress wu	was the only female emperor in the history of China.	44