AP WORLD HISTORY VOCABULARY Flashcards

5015662847	BEDOUINS	Nomadic people of the Arabian Peninsula, they were organized into kingship-based tribes	0
5015664728	KA'BA	Most important shrine which held the Black Stone	1
5015664729	BLACK STONE	The shrine inside the KA'BA; held connections to spirits and Gods	2
5015668331	JINNS	Jinns represented the desert peoples spirits which were believed to reside in natural objects	3
5015668332	MUHAMMAD	The founder of Islam; had a religious experience that he described as a vision from Allah	4
5015673246	UMMA	Muslim community that began in Medina	5
5015673247	ABU BAKR	Muhammad's successor; ordered those who had acted as secretaries for Muhammad to organize the Prophets revelations into Qur'an	6
5015676847	QUR'AN	The sacred word of Allah	7
5015676848	HADITH	A collection of stories about and sayings of Muhammad	8
5015679295	SHARI'A	Law based on beliefs in the Qur'an and Hadith	9
5015681351	SEAL OF PROPHETS	The last of prophets send by God to communicate with human beings	10
5015681352	FIVE PILLARS OF FAITH	The basic principals of Islam	11
5015685942	CONFESSION OF FAITH	To become a muslim, a person must take this statement: "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his Prophet"	12
5015685943	PRAYER	Muslims must pray 5 times a day turned to face Mecca	13
5015687897	FASTING	For one month of the muslim year (Ramadan) muslims must fast from sunup to sundown	14
5015689746	ALMS	The faithful must give a portion of their wealth as alms to the needy	15
5015689747	HAJJ	Once in a lifetime, a muslim must visit Mecca	16
5015692267	MOSQUE	Temple for Muslim worship	17
5015692268	CALIPH	Political and Religious successor to Muhammad	18
5015694683	JIHAD	Used to describe Muslim warfare	19
5015698755	SHI'ITES	Those who resisted the authority of the first three caliphs and also Ali's successor Muawiya; formed a significant minority within Islam	20
5015701259	UMAYYAD DYNASTY	Muawiya founded dynasty	21
5015701260	SUNNI	Supporters of Muawiya; larger majority of Muslims	22
5015706654	CALIPHATES	Islamic Empires which became hereditary	23
5015706655	PEOPLE OF THE BOOK	Jews and Christians who were considerably better treated	24
5015709448	ABBASID DYNASTY	Abbasids claim to be descendants of Muhammad's uncle, so at first they were acceptable to Shi'ites than the Umayyads	25
5015709449	SHARI'A	Body of Islamic Law	26
5015712021	ULAMA	Religious scholars that interpreted the Qur'an	27
5015712022	VIZIER	a head of government directed by the caliph and a state council	28
5015712023	SUFI	A branch of Islam that grew quite rapidly during the Abbasid Dynasty, believed in a life devoted to seeking individual connections to divine truth	29
5015714494	GOLDEN AGES	During the golden age, a civilization would be quite prosperous, innovative in arts, sciences and literature	30
5015714495	DHOWS	sailing vessels with lateen sails that carried goods in the indian ocean routes	31
5015719218	THE THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS	a compilation of folktales	32
5015719242	MADRASAS	urban universities that actively preserved and translated the writings of the indians and greeks	33
5015722441	MINARET	key feature in mosque, where a specially trained muezzin would call prayer 5 times a day	34
5015722442	SELJUK TURKS	nomadic people originally from central asia who lived primarily on the borders of the Abbasid lands	35
5015724866	SULTAN	"chieftain"	36
5015724867	MIDDLE AGES	between 500 to 1500 C.E; preceded by the Roman Empire and followed by the European Renaissance	37
5015728285	MEDIEVAL TIMES	between 500 to 1500 C.E; preceded by the Roman Empire and followed by the European Renaissance	38
5015731913	EARLY MIDDLE AGES	500 to 1000 C.E; Germanic Tribes that had invaded the that invaded the Roman Empire settled into various parts Europe	39
5015731914	HIGH MIDDLE AGES	1000 to 1500 C.E; Recover Began, Towns grew, small cities emerged, trade with other area of Easter Hemisphere emerged	40
5015736598	FUEDALISM	a complex system of of political and and military loyalties that linked lords together	41
5015736599	MANORIALISM	an economic system in which peasants were tied to the land to supply labor to their lords	42
5015738895	SERFS	an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate	43
5015738896	FRANKS	For a brief time in the late 8th and early 9th centuries, it looked as if one group would unite all of the Western Europe under one king; failed	44
5015741839	CLOVIS	The Franks organized a series of Germanic Kingdoms under their kings mainly through Military conquest, starting with ruler CLOVIS	45
5015741840	CAROLINGIAN FAMILY	Clovis lost control of Frankish realm to	46
5015744303	CHARLEMAGNE	conquered most of mainland western Europe, temporarily unifying it	47
5015744304	MISSI DOMINICI	Royal Agents Charlemagne sent out; "eyes and ears" to report back to king	48
5015747632	BARTER	the exchange of goods directly; early middle ages	49
5015747633	BENEDICTINE RULE	came to be followed by almost all Italian, English, and Frankish monks and nuns	50
5015749960	CANON LAW	rules for behavior that first filled the void of political authority in the early days	51
5015753412	EXCOMMUNICATE	to separate from church and its sacraments	52
5015755887	INTERDICT	deny religious rights to all people within a rulers realm	53
5015755888	HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE	established in spirit with Charlemagne's crowning in 800	54
5015758861	LIMITED GOVERNMENT	limits power on ruler	55
5015758862	MAGNA CARTER	a document thats King John of England was forced to sign to guarantee rights of nobility	56
5015760893	PARLIAMENTS	created to give nobility and the clergy a voice among the elite	57
5015762800	HUNDRED YEAR'S WAR	France and England; for territories the English King controlled in France	58
5015765053	CRUSADES	a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries	59
5015765054	SALADIN	Muslim military and political leader who as sultan (or leader) led Islamic forces during the Crusades	60
5015767799	HANSEATIC LEAGUE	Cities in northern Germany and southern Scandinavia to facilitate trade as more towns purchased charters	61
5015767800	GUILDS	association of people who worked in the occupation	62
5015767801	USURY	the charging of interest for the use of money	63
5015770314	GHETTOS	small urban areas	64
5015770315	POGROMS	anti-semetic mob actions	65
5015773854	THOMAS AQUINS	the great medieval theologian	66
5015776983	SCHOLASTICISM	the attempt to reconcile the beliefs and values of Christianly with logic reasoning from Greek Philosophy	67
5015779342	VERNACULAR LANGUAGES	most important development in medieval literature	68
5015779343	RENAISSANCE	rebirth, which would spread over Europe and come to full power in 15th and 15th centuries	69
5015782264	BYZANTIME EMPIRE	ontinuation of the Roman Empire in the East during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople	70
5015785450	SASSANID EMPIRE	sought to rebuild the old Persian Empire	71
5015785451	HERETICAL	holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted	72
5015790658	CAESAROPAPISM	political theory in which the head of state, notably the Emperor, is also the supreme head of the church	73
5015790659	JUSTINIAN	Listen and followed advice of wife Theodora	74
5015793380	HAGIA SOPHIA	Church of Holy Wisdom; one of most important examples Christian architecture	75
5015793381	THEODORA	Empress who had exerted a great deal of influence over her husband Justinian	76
5015800599	CYRILLIC	writing system adopted by Eastern Orthodox countries	77
5015912376	ANIMISM	Spirits residing in ordinary objects and polytheism	78
5016791842	VIKINGS	raiders from Scandinavia	79