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east asia 9/27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| confucianism | chinese belief - social harmony, respect for authority and moral duty |
| buddhism | india - enlightenment and escaping suffering |
| neo-confucianism | song dynasty - revival of confucianism teachings that intergrated buddhist and daoist spiritual ideas into traditional ethics |
| footbinding | girls binding their feet, restricting growth, but symbolizing their wealth and high status |
| filial party | core of confucianism - the respect and obedience for parents, elders and ancestors |
| champa rice | drought resistant and fast ripening rice that lead to major population increase in china |
| shotgun | military and political emperor in japan that ruled on behalf of the empire |
| daimyo | powerful landowning lords in japan that ruled samoa and regional domains |
| dar al islam | the house of islam, region with prevailing islams and free muslim practice |
| house of wisdom | a major Abbasid-era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad (library) during the islamic golden age where schollers translated and preserved works of knowledge around the world |
| jizya | tax to non-muslims in islamic states in exchange for religious freedom and protection |
| quran | holy text of islam --> word of god revealed to mohammed |
| five pillars of islam | core islamic practices --> faith, charity, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca, prayer |
| sufis | islamic mystic who helped spread islamic faith through personal devotion |
| bhakti movement | a hindu movement foucued on a direct personal devotion to a deity |
| chinampas | aztec floating gardens used for farming on lakes |
| quipu | inca record keeping system using knotted strings |
| carpa nan | massive inca road network used for trade and communication |
| bantu peoples | sub-saharan african language that spread by people in agriculture and iron working |
| kinship network | family ties and clan relationships governing early african societies |
| feudalism | medieval european political system where land was exchanged for loyalty and military services |
| manor system | self sufficient economic system centered on lords estate and worked by peasants |
| serfdom | peasent labors legally tied to a nobels land and forced to farm it |
| lords | nobels owned land and granted it to vassels in exchange for loyalty |
| knights | armed warriors - served lords and protected feudal manors |
| the crusades | european christianity going to war against islams, trying to reclaim Holy Land for muslim rule |
| renissance | european cultureal rebirth - rewened intrest in classical learning, art and humanism |
| doaism | religious tradition focused on living in harmony with the natural flow of the universe. |