AP world history Flashcards

8590826493	Allah	Muslim God	0
8590839512	astrolabe	an instrument used to plan a course, using the stars	1
8590912407	battle of tours	732 AD Christians defeat Muslim invaders and stop the spread of Islam into Europe	2
8590955060	caliph	successor to Muhammad as political and religious leader of the Muslims	3
8590974639	five pillars	beliefs that all Muslims needed to carry out: Faith, Prayer, Alms, Fasting, and Pilgrimage	4
8591009891	Mosque	a building for Muslim prayer (Muslim church)	5
8591039827	Quran	The holy book of Islam	6
8591065319	shi'ite	A member of the branch of Islam that supports the descendants of Muhammad as his rightful successors	7
8591097796	shia	Muslims who thought that only Muhammad's descendants could become caliphs (wanted his son in law, Ali, to be it)	8
8591193741	abacus	An instrument used to perform calculations by sliding rings or beads along rods inside a frame.	9
8591263291	daimyo	powerful Japanese feudal lords, owed lots of land	10
8591344960	flying money	Paper currency developed by the Song dynasty	11
8591376564	foot binding	Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small (started in the Tang dynasty)	12
8591414386	grand canal	1100 mile canal made by Sui to link yellow river to Yanzi. key to transportation network	13
8591467056	gempei wars	fconflict between the taira & minamoto clan in japan	14
8592122167	junks	large Chinese trading ships	15
8592148330	neo confucianism	A philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism	16
8592169610	samurai	a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy	17
8592196728	serf	A person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord (slave)	18
8592214309	shinto	principal religion in Japan that emphasizes the worship of nature	19
8592240349	shogun	the head of the military government of Japan in the era of the samurai	20
8592660555	shogunate	military government of Japan	21
8592265897	chivalry	code of conduct for knights	22
8592273801	excommunication	Banishment from the church	23
8592283711	feudalism	political system based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals	24
8592301518	magna carta	document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the king	25
8592325947	medeival	middle ages in Europe	26
8592348877	parliament	A body of representatives that makes laws for a nation	27
8592367530	austronesian	the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia	28
8592383285	black death	A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351	29
8592390607	caravel	a light, fast sailing ship	30
8592402169	hanseatic league	was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns	31
8592416261	kamikaze	Japanese suicide pilots	32
8592421768	khan	Title given to Mongol leaders, meaning "supreme ruler"	33
8592488184	lateen sail	triangle-shaped sails perfected by Arab traders whose design allowed ships to sail against the wind	34
8592512496	maori	A member of a Polynesian group that settled New Zealand about 800 C.E.	35
8592531091	ming dynasty	the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644	36
8592602341	middle kingdom	refers to china because the people believed that their land stood between heaven and earth	37
8592613030	mongol peace	Period of stability and law and order across Eurasia under Mongol rule	38
8592617587	renaissance	the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world	39
8592625129	yuan dynasty	Chinese dynasty ruled by the Mongols from 1279 to 1368; best known ruler was Kublai Khan	40
8592630293	anasazi	Early Native American people who lived in the Southwest lived in cliffs	41
8592636663	ayllus	Incan clan that worked together on projects required by the ruler	42
8592651097	chinampas	floating gardens built by the Aztecs	43
8592665075	inca	a member of a South American Indian people living in the central Andes before the Spanish conquest.	44
8592669434	mexica	what the aztecs called themselves	45
8592671816	mita	labor tax system used by the Incas	46
8592681057	Mississippians	Mound Builders who built the first cities in North America	47
8592687601	quipus	knotted strings used by Incan officials for keeping records	48
8592689858	toltecs	Central American society (950-1150) that was centered around the city of Tula.	49