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AP WORLD HISTORY

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Song Dynasty Chinese dynasty (960–1279) that witnessed major cultural developments and an expansion of trade and manufacturing.
Tangut Rulers of Xi Xia kingdom of Northwest China; one of the regional kingdoms during the period of the southern Song; conquered by Mongols in 1226.
Jurchens Founders of the Jin kingdom that succeeded the Liao in Northern China; annexed most of the Yellow River basin and forced Song to flee to the south.
Shinto Religion of early Japanese culture; devotees worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world; offers of food and prayers are made to gods and nature spirits.
Abbasid Dynasty that succeeded the Umayyads as caliphs within Islam.
Timur-i Lang Also known as Tamerlane; leader of Turkic nomads; beginning in 1360s from base at Samarkand, launched a series of attacks in Persia, the Fertile Crescent, India, and Southern Russia; his empire disintegrated after his death in 1405.
Zenj Arabic term for the east African coast.
Maghrib The Arabic name for Western North Africa.
Sundiata The “Lion Prince”; a member of the Keita clan; created a unified state that became the Mali Empire; died about 1260.
griots Professional oral historians who served as keepers of traditions and advisors to kings within the Mali Empire.
Ibn Battuta (b. 1304) Arab traveler who described African societies and cultures in his travel records.
Great Zimbabwe Bantu Confederation of Shona-speaking peoples located between Zambezi and Limpopo rivers; developed after ninth century; featured royal courts built of stone; created centralized state by fifteenth century; king took title of Mwene Mutapa.
three-field system System of agricultural cultivation by the ninth century in Western Europe; included one-third in spring grains, one-third fallow.
scholasticism Dominant medieval philosophical approach; so called because of its base in the schools or universities; based on use of logic to resolve theological problems.
Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Creator of one of the great syntheses of medieval learning; taught at University of Paris; author of several Summas; believed that through reason it was possible to know much about natural order, moral law, and the nature of God.
Toltec A culture that featured a strongly militaristic ethic, including human sacrifice; influenced large territory after 1000 C.E.; declined after 1200 C.E.
Tenochtitlan Founded c. 1325 on marshy island in Lake Texcoco; became center of Aztec power; joined with Tlacopan and Texcoco in 1434 to form a triple alliance that controlled most of central plateau of Mesoamerica.
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