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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| chivalry | A knights code of honor in medieval Europe |
| Bakufu | A military government established in japan after the Gempei wars |
| Astrolabe | A navigational instrument used to determine latidude by measuring the postion o the sun |
| Kowtow | A ritiualistic bowpractice by the chinese court |
| Caravel | A small, easilt steerable ship used by the portugeses and spainsh in their expolorations |
| Stateless Society | A society that is based on the authoirty of kinship groups rather than on a centrak government |
| Zakat | A tax, comprising percentages of personal incomeof every kind, levied as almsgiving for the relief of the poor |
| People of the Book | A term applied by islamic governments to muslims, christain and jews in reference to the fact that all three releigions had a holy book |
| Minaret | A tower attached to a mousque from which muslims are called to worship |
| Abacus | An ancient chineses counting device taht used rods on which were mounted movable counters |
| Arabesque | Artwork first seem in Muslim lands |
| Calpulli | Aztec clans that supplied labor and warriors to leaders |
| Junks | Large chinese sailing ships especially desgined for long distance traveling during the tang and song dyansties |
| Flying money | Letters of credit issued instead of coins |
| Bantu Spaeaking People | Name given to a grouo of sub saharan african poeples who migration altered the socierty of sub shanran africa |
| muslim | a follower of islam |
| Chinampas | Platforms of twisted vins and mud that seved the Aztecs as floating gardens and extended theor agricultaure land |
| Bushi | Regional military leaders in japan who ruled small kingdoms from fortreses |
| Griots | Storytellers of sub sharna africa who carried out tadtions and hissoties |
| Sunni | The branch of islam that believes that the muslim armies into Europe at at point in northern France |
| Shi¨ite | The branch of islam that holds that the leaders of the muslim community should selsct its leaders |
| Scholar Gentry | The chineses class of well educated men from whom many bureaucrats were chosen |
| Moldboard plow | The curved metal in a plow that turns over an earth from the furrow |
| Black death | The european name for the outbreak of the bubonic plague that spread across asia |
| Hijah | The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina, the first year in a muslim calendar |
| Metropolitan | The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Quran | the holy book of islam |
| Hajj | The pilgrimage of the kaaba in mecca required once every muslim who was not limited to health or financial restrictions |
| excommunication | the practices of the RCC and other christian churches of prohibiting participation in the sacraments to those who do not comply with the church teachings or practices |
| mamluks | Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate on the ninth and tenth centuries |
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