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History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Invaded England, was Duke of Normandie, and created a centralized feudal system | William the Conqueror |
| Empress in China; supported Buddhism | Wu Zhao |
| Regional Rulers | provincial leaders |
| Islamic Law | Sharia |
| religious leaders - traditional leanings in Islamic Empire | ulama |
| is an Arabic word meaning “ striving in the way of God”, but it is often translated as “holy war”. Refer to an armed struggle fought in the defense of Islam to please Allah | jihad |
| Nomadic Arabs who originally inhabited desert areas of the Middle East and northern Africa and later began to move to other parts of the region | Bedouins |
| The Medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus and the Maghreb. They captured Spain in 700s, and were expelled from Spain in 1492 | Moors |
| The Jews whose traditions and culture originate from the Mediteranean, including Spain and Portugal | Sephardim |
| clergy of Christianity, spread the religion | Christian monks |
| A type of character representation in which characters do not represent pronunciation alone, but are also related to the component meanings of words | ideographic |
| an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages | Cyrillic alphabet |
| It is a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church by Justinian, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century | Hagia Sofia |
| It is a technique for printing used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China sometime between the mid-6th and late 9th centuries | woodblock printing |
| Ornament or surface decoration with intricate curves and flowing lines based on plant forms | Arabesque |
| an instrument that was used to determine the altitude of objects (like the sun) in the sky. It was first used around 200 BC by astronomers in Greece. The astrolabe was replaced by the sextant | astrolabe |
| A written number system created during the Gupta golden age in India, then adopted by the Islamic Empire before spreading further. Most familiar numeral style (1,2,3, etc.,) used on clock and watch dials | Arabic numerals |
| A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith | mosque |
| a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere | minaret |
| a common structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere | dome |
| In architecture and structural engineering, a column is that part of a structure whose purpose is to transmit through compression the weight of the structure | pillars |
| the native language of a particular locality | vernacular languages |
| Music in which two or more melodies sound simultaneously | polyphonic music |
| A style of European architecture prevalent from the ninth to the twelfth centuries, with round arches and barrel vaults influenced by Roman architecture and characterized by heavy stone construction | Romanesque |
| members of military elite who received land or benefice from a lord in return for military service and loyalty | Vassals |
| Scandinavian raiders | Viking/Norse |
| Ruler of Russian kingdom of Kiev – converted kingdom to Christianity | Vladimir |
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