AP World History: Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards

5372590475	Trans-Saharan trade	requires travel across the Sahara (north and south) to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant	0
5372590476	Eurasian Silk Road		1
5372590477	Indian Ocean Sea Lanes		2
5372590478	Mediterranean Sea Lanes		3
5372590479	caravanserai	an inn with a central courtyard for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa	4
5372590480	compass	an instrument that points to magnetic north	5
5372590481	astrolabe	an instrument that measures the distance of stars, which can calculate longitude and latitude	6
5372590482	Credit	an entry recording a sum recieved	7
5372590483	Checks (saqqs)		8
5372590484	Bills of exchange	a written order to a person requiring the person to make a specified payment to the signatory or to a named payee	9
5372590485	Banking houses		10
5372590486	Monetization	convert into or express in the form of currency	11
5372590487	Paper Money	money in the form of banknotes	12
5372590488	Luxury goods	silk, cotton, porcelain, spices, precious metals, gems, slaves, exotic animals	13
5372590489	Hanseatic League	a powerful economic and defensive alliance that left a great cultural and architectural heritage	14
5372590490	Viking longships		15
5372590491	Camel saddle		16
5372590492	Bedouins	a nomadic Arab of the desert	17
5372590493	Everything on ISLAM		18
5372590494	Muhammad	Founder of Islam	19
5372590495	5 pillars	1. Shahadah - sincerely reciting the Muslim profession of faith. 2. Salat - performing ritual prayers in the proper way five times each day. 3. Zakat - paying an alms (or charity) tax to benefit the poor and the needy. 4. Sawm - fasting during the month of Ramadan. 5. Hajj - pilgrimage to Mecca.	20
5372590496	Sunni	leaders that only needed to follow the examples and the teaching of the Prophet	21
5372590497	Shi'a	leaders needed to be a relative of the prophet	22
5372590498	sharia	the body of islam law	23
5372590499	mosque	a Muslim place of worship	24
5372590500	jihad	a war or struggle between unbelievers	25
5372590501	caliph	the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad	26
5372590502	umma	the whole community of Muslims bound together by ties of religion	27
5372590503	jizya	a per capita yearly tax placed on non-Muslim subjects by the Islamic state	28
5372590504	mawali	non-Arab Muslims, who converted to Islam in the lands conquered by the Arabs	29
5372590505	Ka'aba	a small stone building in the court of the Great Mosque at Mecca that contains a sacred black stone	30
5372590506	dhimmi	specific individuals living in Muslim lands, who are granted special status and safety in Islamic law in return for paying the capital	31
5372590507	Sunna	the traditional portion of Muslim law based on Muhammad's words or acts	32
5372590508	Hadith	a collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad	33
5372590509	Ridda Wars	a series of military campaigns launched by the Caliph Abu Bakr against rebel Arabian tribes	34
5372590510	Diasporic communities	a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic location	35
5372590511	Ibn Battuta	a Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler who goes on excursions	36
5372590512	Dar al-Islam	countries where Muslim can be practiced as the ruling sect	37
5372590513	Al Andalus	Muslim Spain	38
5372590514	Printing	the production of books, newspapers, or other printed material	39
5372590515	Dhows	a lateen-rigged ship with one or two masts	40
5372590516	Bubonic plague	a plague that was transfer from infested rats	41
5372590517	Ulama	a body of Muslim scholars recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology	42
5372590518	Sufism	the inner mystical dimensions of Islam	43
5372590519	Bhaktic cults	hindu groups dedicated to gods and goddesses	44
5372590520	Griots	a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician	45
5372590521	Hagia Sophia	Once a Christian Church, then a Islam mosque, now a Museum	46
5372590522	Eastern Orthodox Christianity	the second largest Christian church and one of the oldest religious institutions in the world	47
5372590523	patriarch	the male head of a family or tribe	48
5372590524	icons	a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something	49
5372590525	Cyril	the Patriarch of Alexandria from 412 to 444	50
5372590526	Methodius	brothers with Cyril who were Byzantine Christian theologians and Christian missionaries	51
5372590527	Roman Catholicism	of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church	52
5372590528	Pope	the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church	53
5372590529	sacraments	a religious ceremony or act of the Christian Church that is regarded as an outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual divine grace	54
5372590530	investiture	the action of formally investing a person with honors or rank	55
5372590531	simony	the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices	56
5372590532	monastician	monkhood is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work	57
5372590533	Scholasticism	the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities	58
5372590534	Thomas Aquinas	an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church	59
5372590535	Feudalism	the dominant social system in medieval Europe	60
5372590536	The Crusades	a medieval military expedition made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims	61
5372590537	Stateless societies	a society that is not governed by a state	62
5372590538	Wazier	a high official in some Muslim countries	63
5372590539	Reconquista	a series of campaigns by Christian states to recapture territory from the Muslims	64
5372590540	Rulers	a person exercising government or dominion	65
5372590541	Sundiata	a puissant prince and founder of the Mali Empire	66
5372590542	Mansa Musa	the tenth Mansa or "emperor", of the wealthy West African Mali Empire	67
5372590543	Muhammad Askia (the Great)	an emperor, military commander, and political reformer of the Songhai Empire in the late 15th century	68
5372590544	Justinian		69
5372590545	Vladimir I	a prince of Novgorod, grand prince of Kiev, and ruler of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015	70
5372590546	Yaroslav the wise	a thrice grand prince of Veliky Novgorod and Kiev who united the two principalities for a time under his rule	71
5372590547	Clovis	the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler	72
5372590548	Charles Martel		73
5372590549	Charlemagne		74
5372590550	William the Conqueror		75
5372590551	Greek Fire		76
5372590552	Tsar		77
5372590553	Boyars		78
5372590554	Holy Roman Emperor		79
5372590555	Magna Carta		80
5372590556	Parliment		81
5372590557	Estates General	The clergy The nobles The common people	82
5372590558	Hundred Years War		83
5372590559	Byzantium		84
5372590560	Islamic Caliphates		85
5372590561	Rightly Guided		86
5372590562	Umayyads		87
5372590563	Abbasids		88
5372590564	Ghana		89
5372590565	Mali		90
5372590566	Songhai	a state that dominated the western Sahel in the 15th and 16th century	91
5372590567	Axum	a city in the northern part of Ethiopia	92
5372590568	Great Zimbabwe		93
5372590569	Yoruba peoples of Benin		94
5372590570	Dehli Sultanate		95
5372590571	The Franks		96
5372590572	Berbers		97
5372590573	Almohads	a Moroccan Berber Muslim movement founded in the 12th century	98
5372590574	Almiravids	a Berber imperial dynasty of Morocco, who formed an empire in the 11th century	99
5372590575	Pastoralists	a sheep or cattle farmer	100
5372590576	Seljuk Turks	an Oghuz Turk Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually became a Persianate society	101
5372590577	Mongols		102
5372590578	Shrivajaya	a city-state based on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which was an important centre for the expansion of Buddhism	103
5372590579	Urbanization		104
5372590580	Diversification of labor		105
5372590581	Manorialism		106
5372590582	Vassals		107
5372590583	Serfdom		108
5372590584	Slavery		109
5372590585	ayan	The wealthy landed elite that emerged in the early decades of Abbasid rule.	110
5372590586	Free peasant agriculture		111
5372590587	Guilds		112
5372590588	Labor Taxes		113
5372590589	Juula	a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including the Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Guinea-Bissau	114
5372590590	Three field system		115
5372590591	Gothic		116
5372590592	Romanesque Architecture		117