AP World History-3 Flashcards

2091619264	Humanists	The focus on humankind as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavor	0
2091620785	Demesne land	The part of the lord's manorial lands reserved for his own use and not allocated to his serfs or freeholder tenants. Serfs worked the demesne for a specified numbers of days a week	1
2091621049	Gothic architecture	A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches	2
2091621464	Hanseatic League	a commercial and defensive confederation of free cities in northern Germany and surrounding areas; formed in 1241 and most influential in the 14th century when it included over 100 towns and functioned as an independent political power; the last official assembly was held in 1669	3
2091621987	Interdict	A prohibition by the pope that can deprive individual persons, groups, communities and even nations of all priestly ministry. Thus, they no longer had access to the sacraments of the church	4
2091622410	Northern Renaissance/ High Renaissance	N-Flemish, Dutch art focus H- later period of the Renaissance, Italy big, Hellenistic influence	5
2091623035	Villein	one of a class of feudal serfs, that held legal status of freedom in dealings with ppl except their lord	6
2091623567	Seljuk Turks / Ottoman Turks	S- major branch of the Oghuz turks, ruled parts of central asia and middle east (11-14 centuries) O- ethnic subdivision of Turkish ppl, who dominated ruling class of the ottoman empire	7
2091624120	Bantun	term used to describe 400 diff enthnic groups in Africa, Cameroon to south Africa, which were untied by a common language (Bantu languages)	8
2091624549	Khazars	nomadic Turkic people from central asia, many converted to Judaism, basically wandering people, allies of Byzantine empire and sassanid empire	9
2091624979	Kievan Russia	early east Slavic state, dominated by city of kiev	10
2091625359	steppes	a vast semiarid grass-covered plain, found in southeast Europe and Mongolia	11
2091625836	Black Death	Also known as the Black Plague that wiped out approximately 25 million people in Europe, or 25% of it's population	12
2091639869	bubonic plague	A highly contagious disease, that was fatal and otherwise known as the disease spread in Asia and Europe in 1347-1351 by the Chinese and Mongols	13
2091640112	Dardanelles	a straight connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara	14
2091640571	Toltecs	a member of a Nahuatl-speaking people of central and southern Mexico whose empire flourished from the 10th century under invasion by the Aztes in the 12th Century	15
2091641085	Quipu	A record-keeping device of the Inca empire consisting of a series of variously colored strings attached to a base rope and knotted so as to encode information, used especially for accounting purposes	16
2091641523	Tula	capital of the Toltec people, established around 968 CE	17
2091645152	Acculturation	the obtainment of culture by an individual or a group of people	18
2091645583	bakufu	military government established by the Minamoto, a powerful Japanese clan in 1185	19
2091646009	bushi	Japanese warrior leaders tasked with law and order, public infrastructure, tax collection, and organizing an army	20
2091646188	bushido	Japanese warrior code of conduct, similar to the chivalry system in Europe	21
2091646655	kowtow	formal recognition of the Chinese emperor's authority, where representatives from tribute states would present gifts and engage in a formal bowing ceremony	22
2091647019	Neo-Confucianism	a response by the Confucians to the dominance of the Daoists and Buddhists, severe Confucianism	23
2091647257	seppuku	ritual suicide/disembowelment in Japan (hara-kiri); demonstrating courage and restoring family honor	24
2091647553	shariah	Islamic law	25
2091647828	umma	community of the faithful within Islam; creating political unity	26
2091648171	Austronesian	a large language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia.	27
2091648409	syncretism	attempt to merge disparate traditions or practices and combine them with another tradition. (religion also)	28
2091648631	chinampas	known as floating gardens, small, rectangle-shapes area of fertile arable land used for agriculture in the Xochimilco region of the Basin of Mexico	29
2091648755	mita	Mandatory public service by society in ancient South America. During the Inca empire, public service was required in public works projects such as the building of road and military services	30
2091649154	Quechua	the language of the Inca empire, now spoken in the Andes highlands from southern Colombia to Chile	31