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Mishler G 379-404
AP World Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Islamic title, used for rulers of the muslim country | Sultan |
| series of military campaigns, where roman catholics tried to capture “holy land” from muslims, some were in Europe | Crusade |
| term used to describe 400 diff enthnic groups in Africa, Cameroon to south Africa, which were untied by a common language (Bantu languages) | Bantun |
| country where Bantu people began migrating into, linked to the establishment of trade ties with muslim merchants on Indian ocean (bout 10th century) trading natural resources such as gold, ivory, copper for cloth and glass Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe |
| Arabic word for “owned”, slave soldiers used by muslim caliphs and the ottoman empire | Mamluks |
| name applied to the Turkic ppl of eastern Europe and central asia, derived from Ta-ta a Mongolian tribe that inhabited present northeast Mongolia in 5th centrury AD | Tatars |
| successful military leader, united mongol tribes, was the founder of the mongol empire (1206-1368) | Genghis Khan |
| region ruled under a khan, divided kingdoms under the mongol empire | khanates |
| a state established in Russia, one of the four kingdoms in the mongol empire | Golden Horde |
| nomadic Turkic people from central asia, many converted to Judaism, basically wandering people, allies of Byzantine empire and sassanid empire | Khazars |
| early east Slavic state, dominated by city of kiev | Kievan Russia |
| a sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory | city-states |
| distinguishing features of a group, to individual’s sense to belong in it | national identity |
| geographic name used to describe southern Europe, as it was surrounded by the Adriatic, Ionian, Aegean…seas from southwest , south and southeast | Balkan Peninsula |
| a vast semiarid grass-covered plain, found in southeast Europe and Mongolia | steppes |
| A highly contagious disease, that was fatal and otherwise known as the disease spread in Asia and Europe in 1347-1351 by the Chinese and Mongols | bubonic plague |
| Also known as the Black Plague that wiped out approximately 25 million people in Europe, or 25% of it’s population | Black Death |
| a narrow strait separating European and Asian Turkey and joining the Black Sea with the Marmara Sea; also an important trade route | Bosporus |
| a straight connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara | Dardanelles |
| known as the strip from Mexico to Midwestern United States and Canada, where the native Americans have inhabited over time | Mesoamerica |
| A native American group of people that lived in Central America | Maya |
| a member of a Nahuatl-speaking people of central and southern Mexico whose empire flourished from the 10th century under invasion by the Aztes in the 12th Century | Toltecs |
| A god of the Toltecs and Aztecs, one of the manifestation of the sun god Tezcatlipoca and represented as a plumed serpent | Quetzalcoatl |
| the higher class people of the native American societies, that controlled the government along with the grand leader | priest-scholars |
| labor shared amongst the peasant class | differentiated labor |
| Temples, places of Sacrifice | ceremonial centers |
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