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Carter K WH U2
Unit 2 Vocabulary for Whittaker World History.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Constantinople | the capital city of the Roman Empire |
| Justinian | the Eastern Roman emperor from 527 to 565. |
| Justinian Code | collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 ce. |
| Muhammad | was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. |
| Shari’a | a religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition. |
| Caliph | the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad. |
| Sunni | the larger of the two main branches of Islam, which differs from Shia in its understanding of the Sunna, its conception of religious leadership, and its acceptance of the first three caliphs. |
| Shi’a | one of the two main branches of Islam, followed especially in Iran, that rejects the first three Sunni caliphs and regards Ali, the fourth caliph, as Muhammad's first true successor. |
| Bantu | relating to or denoting a group of Niger–Congo languages spoken in central and southern Africa, including Swahili, Xhosa, and Zulu. |
| Mansa Musa | the tenth Mansa, which translates to "sultan", "conqueror" or "emperor", of the wealthy West African Islamic Mali Empire. |
| Ibn Battuta | a Muslim Berber Moroccan scholar, and explorer who widely travelled the medieval world. |
| Timbuktu | a city in Mali, situated 20 km north of the Niger River. |
| Moveable Type | the system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document usually on the medium of paper. |
| Tang and Song Dynasty | are known as Golden Ages in Chinese history. The earlier Han dynasty collapsed for several reasons. ... The Chinese during the Tang dynasty were also noted for their beautiful poetry and fine porcelain wares. |
| Genghis Khan | the founder and first Great Khan and Emperor of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. |
| Neolithic Revolution | the wide-scale transition of many human cultures during the Neolithic period |
| Hammurabi’s Code | well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia, dated to about 1754 BC. |
| Monotheistic | Belief in one God. |
| Theocracy | a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god. |
| Dynasty | a line of hereditary rulers of a country. |
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