AP World History 13 Flashcards

4265383152	hijab	a headscarf worn by Muslim women	0
4265383153	illegitimate	contrary to or forbidden by law	1
4265383154	infrastructure	the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area	2
4265383155	interaction	the effect of one factor (such as environment) depends on another factor (such as heredity)	3
4265383156	Inquisition	a former tribunal of the Roman Catholic Church (1232-1820) created to discover and suppress heresy	4
4265383157	interrogation	formal questioning by persons in authority, especially in the church	5
4265383158	Islam	the monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran	6
4265383159	literate	able to read and write	7
4265383160	matriarch	a female head of a family or tribe	8
4265383161	medieval	relating to or belonging to the Middle Ages	9
4265383162	meritocracy	the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth	10
4265383163	Middle Ages	the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance	11
4265383164	migration	the movement of persons from one country or locality to another	12
4265383165	monetary system	system of coins and bills to create a standard value of wealth	13
4265383166	mosque	a Muslim house of worship	14
4265383167	Muslim	a believer or follower of Islam	15
4265383168	nation-state	a country whose population possesses a substantial degree of cultural homogeneity and unity	16
4265383169	orthodox	adhering to the traditional and established, especially in religion	17
4265383170	patriarch	the male head of family or tribe	18
4265383171	patriarchal	male led society and household	19
4265383172	persecution	the abuse of a person or group because of their beliefs or appearance	20
4265383173	pilgrims	people on a religious journey	21
4265383174	pilgrimage	a journey to a sacred place	22
4265383175	primogeniture	right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son	23
4265383176	Roman Catholic	the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy	24
4265383177	schism	division of a group into opposing factions	25
4265383178	secluded	hidden from general view or use	26
4265383179	serfs	men of women who were the poorest members of society, peasants who worked the lord's land in exchange for protection	27
4265383180	submissive	willing to submit without resistance to authority	28
4265383181	subordinate	rank or order as less important or consider of less value	29
4265383182	trans-continental	spanning or crossing a continent	30
4265383183	tribute systems	allowed reciprocal trade under both imperial protection and imperial regulation and barred entry into this trade by those who did not participate	31
4265383184	Baghdad	capital city of Iraq; as heart of the Arab Empire, it was second only to Constantinople in terms of size and grandeur in 1000 C.E.	32
4265383185	Black Death	the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe	33
4265383186	Bubonic Plague	disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas.	34
4265383187	Chang-an	capital of Tang dynasty; population of 2 million, larger than any other city in the world at that time.	35
4265383188	Constantinople	previously known as Byzantium, Constantine changed the name of the city and moved the capitol of the Roman Empire here from Rome.	36
4265383189	Crusades	a series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims	37
4265383190	Empress Wu	the only woman to rule China in her own name, expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty.	38
4265383191	European feudalism	was made up of a king, the next level was church officials and nobles, then knights, peasants, finally merchants	39
4265383192	Japanese feudalism	emperor (has no real power) -> shogun (has the real power) - hereditary -> daimyo (the lower nobles under the shogun) -> samurai (knights)	40
4265383193	foot-binding	practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household	41
4265383194	Franks	a Germanic tribe that conquered present-day France and neighboring lands in the 400s	42
4265383195	Charlemagne	king of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe, great patron of leterature and learning	43
4265383196	Ghengis Khan	Mongol leader who led their conquest westward and who is renowned for his ability and his ruthlessness.	44
4265383197	Hanseatic League	an organization of north German and Scandinavian cities for the purpose of establishing a commercial alliance.	45
4265383198	Hundred Years War	the series of wars between England and France, 1337-1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais.	46
4265383199	Code of Justinian	compilation of the complex system of Roman laws; became the system of laws for the Byzantine Empire	47
4265383200	Magna Carta	the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215	48
4265383201	Mansa Musa	this Mali king brought Mali to its peak of power and wealth from 1312 the 1337; he was the most powerful king in west Africa	49