AP World History Vocabulary 600 CE

AP World History Vocabulary 600 CE - 1450 Flashcards

9720062607	Ka'aba	A black stone or meteorite that became the most revered shrine in Arabia before the introduction of Islam; situated in Mecca, it later was incorporated in the Islamic faiths	0
9720062608	Sycretism	A blend of two or more cultures or cultural traditions	1
9720062609	Austronesian	A branch of languages originating in Oceania	2
9720062610	Hadith	A collection of the sayings and deeds of Mohammad	3
9720062611	Magna Carta	A document written in England in 1215 that granted certain rights to nobles; later these rights came to be extended to all classes	4
9720062612	Harem	A household of wives and concubines in the Middle East, Africa or Asia	5
9720062613	Daimyo	A Japanese Feudal lord in charge of an army of samurai	6
9720062614	Chivalry	A knight's code of honor in medieval Europe	7
9720062615	Mita	A labor system used by Andean societies in which community member shared work owed to rulers and the religious community	8
9720062616	Maori	A member of a Polynesian group that settled in New Zealand about 800 C.E.	9
9720062617	Shogunate	A military government established in Japan after the Gempei Wars; the emperor became a figurehead while real power was concentrated in the military. including the samurai	10
9720062618	Khan	A Mongol ruler	11
9720062619	Astroblade	A navigational instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars	12
9720062620	Serf	A peasant who is bound to the land he or she works	13
9720062621	Neo-Confucianism	A philosophy that blended Confucianism and Buddhist thought`	14
9720062622	Feudalism	A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between lord and vassal in order to provide protection	15
9720062623	Parliament	A representative assembly, most notably in England	16
9720062624	Kowtow	A ritualistic bow practiced in the Chinese court	17
9720062625	Caravel	A small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations	18
9720062626	Stateless Society	A society that is based on the authority of kinship groups rather that on a central government	19
9720062627	Quipus	A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records	20
9720062628	Manorialism	A system of self-sufficient estates that arose in medieval Europe	21
9720062629	Zakat	A tax, comprising percentages of personal income of every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor: the third of the pillars of Islam	22
9720062630	People of the Book	A term applied by the Islamic governments to Muslims, Christians, and Jews in reference to the fact that all three religions had a holy book	23
9720062631	Minaret	A tower attached to a mosque from which Muslims are called to worship	24
9720062632	Lateen Sails	A triangular sail attached to a short mast	25
9720062633	Age Grade	Age groups into which children were placed in Bantu Societies of early sub-Saharan Africa; Children within the age grade were given responsibilities and privileges suitable for their age and in this manner were prepared for adult responsibilities	26
9720062634	Abascus	An ancient Chinese counting device that used rods on which were mounted movable counters	27
9720062635	Tea Ceremony	An ancient Shinto ritual still performed in the traditional Japanese capital of Kyoto	28
9720062636	Quenchua	An Andean society also known as the Inca	29
9720062637	Perspective	An artistic technique commonly used in Renaissance painting that gave a three-dimensional appearance to works of art	30
9720062638	Sultan	An Islamic ruler	31
9720062639	Gothic Architecture	Architecture of twelfth-century Europe, featuring stained-glass windows, flying buttresses, tall spires, and pointed arches	32
9720062640	Arabesque	Artwork first seen in Muslim lands. A type of curvilinear decoration in painting, metalwork, etc., with intricate intertwining of leaf, flower, animal, or geometrical designs	33
9720062641	Calpulli	Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders	34
9720062642	Toltecs	Central American society that was centered around the city of Tula	35
9720062643	Ming Dynasty	Chinese dynasty founded by the Hongwu and known for its cultural brilliance	36
9720062644	Yuan Dynasty	Chinese dynasty that was founded by the Mongolian ruler Kublai Khan	37
9720062645	Celadon	Chinese porcelain that has a pale, green, translucent glaze	38
9720062646	Mississippians	First society people located in central North America	39
9720062647	Five Pillars	Five practices required of Muslim; faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting, and pilgrimage	40
9720062648	Foot Binding	In China, a method of breaking and binding women's feet; seen as a sign of beauty and social position, foot binding also confined women to the household	41
9720062649	Ayllus	In Incan society, a clan or community that worked together on projects required by the ruler	42
9720062650	Parallel Descent	In Incan society, descent through both the father and mother	43
9720062651	Fief	In medieval Europe, a grant of land given in exchange for military, or other services	44
9720062652	Benefice	In medieval Europe, a grant of land or other privilege to a vassal	45
9720062653	Vassal	In medieval Europe, a person who pledged military or other service to a lord in exchange for a gift of land or other privilege	46
9720062654	Jihad	Islamic holy war	47
9720062655	Junks	Large Chinese sailing ships especially designed for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song Dynasties	48
9720062656	Flying Money	Letters of Credit issued in place of coins	49
9720062657	Shogun	Military leader under the bakafu	50
9720062658	Sufis	Muslims who attempt to reach Allah through mysticism	51
9720062659	Bantu-Speaking Peoples	Name given to a group of sub-Saharan African peoples who migrations altered the society of sub-Saharan Africa	52
9720062660	Muslim	One who submits; a follower of Islam	53
9720062661	Medieval	Pertaining to the middle ages of European history	54
9720062662	Chinampas	Platforms of twisted vines and mud that served the Aztecs as floating gardens and extended their agriculutral land	55
9720062663	Chimar	Pre-Incan South American society that fell to Incas in the fifteenth century	56
9720062664	Bushi	Regional military leaders in Japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortresses	57
9720062665	Malay Sailors	Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E. they had colonized Madagascar, including the cultivation of the banana	58
9720062666	Griots	Storytellers of sub-Saharan Africa who carried on oral traditions and histories	59
9720062667	Middle Kingdom	Term applied to the rich agricultural lands of the Yangtze River valley under the Zhou dynasty	60
9720062668	Kamikaze	The "divine wind" credited by the Japanese with preventing the Mongol invasion of Japan during the thirteenth century	61
9720062669	Battle of Tours	The 732 battle that halted the advance of Muslim armies into Europe at a point in northern France	62
9720062670	Investiture	The authority claimed by monarchs to appoint church officials	63
9720062671	Shariah	The body of law that governs Muslim society	64
9720062672	Sunni	The branch of Islam that believes that the Muslim community should select its leaders; the Sunnis are the largest branch of Islam	65
9720062673	Shi'ite	The branch of Islam that holds that the leader of Islam must be a descendant of Muhammad's family	66
9720062674	Caliph	The chief Muslim political and religious leader	67
9720062675	Scholar-Gentry	The Chinese class of well-educated men from whom many bureaucrats were chosen	68
9720062676	Bushido	The code of honor of the samurai in Japan	69
9720062677	Umma	The community of Muslim believers	70
9720062678	Moldboard Plow	The curved metal plate in a plow that turns over an earth from the furrow	71
9720062679	Black Death	The European name for the outbreak of the bubonic plague that spread across Asia, Europe, and North Africa in the Fourteenth century	72
9720062680	Hijah	The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, the first year in the Muslim calendar	73
9720062681	Allah	The god of Muslims; Arabic word for "god"	74
9720062682	Metropolitan	The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church	75
9720062683	Quran	The holy book of Islam	76
9720062684	Ramadan	The holy month of Islam which commemorates the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad; fasting is required during this month	77
9720062685	Dar al-Islam	The House of Islam; a term representing the political and religious unity of the various Islamic groups	78
9720062686	Mosque	The house of worship of followers of Islam	79
9720062687	Seppuku	The Japanese practice of ritual suicide	80
9720062688	Samurai	The military class of feudal Japan	81
9720062689	Anasazi	The name given to the pueblo dwelling natives in the South-west North American continent	82
9720062690	Mexica	The name given to themselves by the Aztec people	83
9720062691	Tribute	The payment of a tax in the form of goods and labor by subject people	84
9720062692	Mongol Peace	The period from about 1250 to 1350 in which the Mongols ensured the safety of Eurasian trade and travel	85
9720062693	Middle Ages	The period of European history traditionally given as 500 to 1500	86
9720062694	Hajj	The pilgrimage to the Ka'aba in Mecca required once of every Muslim who was not limited by health or financial restrictions	87
9720062695	Excommunication	The practice of the Roman Catholic and other Christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with the church teachings or practices	88
9720062696	Renaissance	The revival of learning in Europe beginning about 1300 and continuing to about 1600	89
9720062697	Bakufu	The rule of the shoguns	90
9720062698	Inca	The ruler of the Quechua people of that west coast of South America; the term is also applied to the Quechua people as a whole	91
9720062699	Steppe Diplomacy	The skill of political survival and dominance in the world of steppe nomads; it involved the knowledge of tribal and clan structure and often used assassinations to accomplish its goals	92
9720062700	Shinto	The traditional Japanese religion based veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature	93
9720062701	Moundbuilders	The various American tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and the southeastern U.S.	94
9720062702	Mamluks	Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries; they founded their own state in Egypt and Syria from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries	95
9720062703	Gempei Wars	Wars in Japan that pitted Samurai against the peasants	96