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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| queen of Castile (1474–1504) and Aragon (1479–1504), ruling the two from 1479 with husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon (Ferdinand V of Castile). Their rule effected the permanent union of Spain and the beginning of an overseas empire in the New World, led by | Queen Isabella |
| system of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system…could contain numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records | quipu |
| the holy book of Islam… recitations of revelations received by Muhammad | Qur'an |
| dominant medieval philosophical approach… based on the use of logic to resolve theological problems | Scholasticism |
| peasant agricultural laborers within the manorial system of the Middle Ages | Serfs |
| peasant agricultural laborers within the manorial system of the Middle Ages | Serfs |
| military leaders of the bakufu | Shogun |
| military government in 12th century Japan… established by the Minamoto after the Gempei Wars… retained emperor but real power resided in military government and samurai | Shogunate |
| Chinese dynasty that united the entire country until 1127 and the southern portion until 1279, during which time northern China was controlled by the Juchen tribes | Song |
| The Middle Ages, a judicial procedure to combat heresy. Spain: authorized by Sixtus IV (1478). The pope later tried to limit power but opposed by Spanish crown. The grand inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada was responsible for burning 2,000 heretics at stake | Spanish Inquisition |
| a missionary sent by the Byzantine government to eastern Europe and the Balkans… converted southern Russia and Balkans to Orthodox Christianity…responsible for creation of written script for Slavic known as Cyrillic | St. Cyril |
| mystics within Islam… responsible for expansion of Islam in southeastern Asia | Sufis |
| political and theological division within Islam… followers of the Umayyads | Sunni/Shia |
| Chinese emperor who overthrew the Hsia dynasty and founded the Shang dynasty | T’ang |
| attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese- style emperor…also tried to make a professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army | Taika Reforms |
| dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618 C.E… more stable than the previous dynasty | Tang |
| Mongols; captured Russian cities and largely destroyed Kievan state | Tatars |
| Inca Religious center located at Cuzco | Temple of the Sun |
| center of Aztec power, founded on marshy island in Lake Texcoco | Tenochtitlan |
| Creator of one of the great syntheses of medieval learning; believed that through reason it was possible to know much about natural order, moral law, and nature of God | Thomas Aquinas |
| A ruined Mayan city of northern Guatemala. It was the largest of the Mayan cities and may also be the oldest | Tikal |
| leader of Turkic nomads - last Mongol nomad | Timur Lang |
| name given to Timur Lang | Timur the Lame |
| 843 the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious divided his territories, the Carolingian Empire, into three kingdoms | Treaty of Verdun |
| powerful Muslim family | Umayidd |
| 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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