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keyterms 271-298
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nor did he believe in any Judgement Day or rewards and punishments after life. Instead he supported the view that laws of nature explained all phenomena of observed life | Omar Khayyam |
| Rubaiyat is a common shorthand name for the collection of Persian verses known more formally as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In fact, rubaiyat means "quatrains" in the Persian language | Rubaiyat in Persian |
| Chinese poet living in Tang Dynasty.best known for extravagant imagination and striking Taoist imagery in his poetry,as well love for liquor.is said to have drowned in the Yangtze River,having fallen from his boat while drunkenly trying to embrace moon | Li Tai-Po |
| word orthodoxy,from the Greek ortho ('right','correct')doxa ('thought','teaching'),most used 2 refer 2 correct theological/doctrinal observance of religion. | Orthodox |
| Person who generally likes to uphold current conditions and oppose changes; religious movement whose position lies between the Orthodox and Reform | Conservative |
| Traditions of the prophet Mohammad that played a critical role in Islamic law and rituals; recorded by women | Hadith |
| In Christian theology, legalism is belief, stated or supposedly implied, that law, not faith, is the pre-eminent principle of redemption | Legalism |
| Religion of early Japanese culture; devotes worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world; offers of food and prayer made to gods and nature spirits | Shinto |
| The Way of Changes, a Chinese classic written by Lao Tzu around the 3rd century BC It is the fundamental text of Taoism | Tao Te Ching |
| Arabian Nights' Entertainment: a collection of folktales in Arabic dating from the 10th century | Thousand and One Nights |
| Divide of the Christian church whereby for a time there were two popes | Great Schism |
| a man who rules a family, clan or tribe | Patriarch |
| The state church of Greece, an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church | . Greek Orthodox Church |
| The Christian church characterized by an episcopal hierarchy with the pope as its head and belief in seven sacraments and the authority of tradition | Roman Catholic Church |
| A Bantu language of the coast and islands of eastern Africa from Somalia to Mozambique | Swahili |
| Southern port with gold produced in the interior, controlled by Kilwa | Sofala |
| Town on W African coast, wealthy & beautiful town , access to gold (Sofala) and most southern ship stop | Kilwa |
| winds from the southwest or south that brings heavy rainfall to southern Asia in the summer - method by which Arab merchants travelled | monsoons |
| number of trade routes from East Asia to Eastern Europe, one of the trade commodities was silk | Silk Road |
| non-arab converts to Islam | mawali |
| model of Islamicized (reinforced kingship) Sudanic kingdoms, Malinke merchants traded throughout W Africa | Mali Empire |
| successor to Mali empire, fusion of Islam, pagan, took over Niger valley, dominant in area until Muslims with muskets | Songhay Empire |
| Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca | hajj |
| elite, educated bureaucrats who ran the centralized gov’t pf China | scholar gentry |
| Arab traveler/trader who commented on African traveling security, cities | Ibn Battuta |
| African prince from Mali who gave out so much gold during a pilgrimage it devalued | Mansa Musa |
| writing art form | calligraphy |
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