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Defintitions #1
Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| kowtow | formal recognition of the Chinese emperor's authority, where representatives from tribute states would present gifts and engage in a formal bowing ceremony |
| daimyo | Warlord rulers who divided Japan into 300 little kingdoms |
| seppuku | ritual suicide/disembowelment in Japan (hara-kiri); demonstrating courage and restoring family honor |
| People of the Book | (dhimmi) Christians and Jews who shared the Bible with Muslims, could be taxed by Muslims |
| Middle Ages | Time period between the postclassical era and the renaissance. Consists of Dark Ages and the High Middle Ages, in which the latter saw an improvement in trade, economy, and lives of peasants. |
| moldboard plows | plow invented during the Middle Ages to improve farming effeciency |
| chinampas | known as floating gardens, small, rectangle-shapes area of fertile arable land used for agriculture in the Xochimilco region of the Basin of Mexico |
| Mississippians | People of the Mississippi plains |