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WHAP Unit 1-2 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Pastoralism | Practice of herding and breeding animals to help strengthen your states trading resources and food supply |
| Silk Roads | Ancient trading route that linked China with west |
| Turkic Peoples | The people who live or are from the vast stretch of land between east-central Asia and the Anatolian Peninsula, which is between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean |
| Assimilation | The process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society |
| Cosmopolitan | including or containing people and their culture from many different regions of the world |
| Urbanization | The mass movement of people from rural areas to more densely populated areas |
| Coerced Labor | Work a person does for another person (or for the state) under compulsion, receiving little or no recompense |
| Serfdom | An institutional system which obliged a peasant to provide forced labor services to his landlord in exchange for being allowed to occupy land |
| Song Dynasty | Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 Based around Confucian principles |
| Confucianism | The ethical system of Confucius, emphasizing moral order, the humanity and virtue of China's ancient rulers, and gentlemanly education |
| Filial Piety | Worshipping and respecting ones parents and ancestors |
| Neo-Confucianism | Revival of Confucianism that include influences from Buddhism and Daoism and helped blend China through religious diversity |
| Bureaucracy | Non-elected government officials, system of managing government through departments run by appointed officials |
| Chama Rice | Drought-resistant and early-ripening that originated in Vietnam but was shortly adopted by China |
| Feudalism | Land-based form of government and system of exchange between a landholding feudal lord and vassals Vassals promised loyalty in exchange for land |
| Shogunate | Hereditary military dictatorship of Japan |
| Dar al Islam | Name given to everywhere in the world that is under the rule of Islamic law |
| Sufism, Sufis | Group of mystics that rejected outward focus of Islam but instead, seeking an inward, more direct spiritual experience with divine love and knowledge of God |
| Sunni, Shia | Sunni: Islamic community should choose successor of Muhammad after he died (90%) Shia: Successor should be a family member (10%) |
| Abbasid Caliphate (Baghdad) | Major dynasty that ruled over the Islamic Empire during its peak |
| Al-Andalus | Muslim kingdom that occupied much of the Iberian Peninsula from 711 CE until the collapse of the Spanish Umayyad dynasty in the early 11th century |
| Astrolabe | Navigational instrument for determining latitude |
| Compass | Navigation instrument used for determining direction; allowed ships to travel without hugging shores |
| Monsoon Winds | Alternating wind currents that blew eastward across the Indian Ocean in the summer and westward in the winter, Facilitating trade (Very predictable) |
| Diasporic Communities | Groups of people with a similar heritage or homeland who have moved out to places all over the world in search of wealth |
| Yuan Dynasty | Dynasty established by Mongol nomads that ruled portions and eventually all of China from the early 13th century to 1368 |
| Pathogens | Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism) |
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