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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mughal means....? | Mongol |
| Akbar the great did what? | Built strong gov. Ended non-Muslim tax |
| What was the new language of hindus and Islam? | Urdu |
| Autocrat | Sole ruler with complete authority |
| Patriarch | Highest church official |
| Steppe | Open treeless grassland |
| Boyar | Great landowning nobles |
| Czar | Russian word for Caesar |
| Ethnic group | Large group of people who share same language and cultural heritage |
| Diet | Assemly |
| Oasis | Fertile area in a desert |
| Hijra | Journey |
| Monotheistic | Belief in one god |
| Hajj | Pilgrimage to Mecca |
| Jihad | Steuggle in Gods service |
| Minaret | Slender towers of mosques |
| Muzzin | Mosque official |
| Sultan | Authority |
| Social mobility | Ability to move up in social class |
| Arabesque | Intricate design |
| Sultanate | Land ruled by sultan |
| Caste | Social groups they can't change |
| Janizary | Ellite force of the ottomon army |
| Shah | King |
| What was the language of the Byzantine empire? | Greek |
| Main religion of Byzantine was....? | Christianity |
| Byzantine legal system and fov reflected off of... | Romans |
| How many years did it take Justinian to recapture roman empire? | 38 years |
| What was the most famous Byzantine building? | Santa Sophia |
| What was the official religion of Byzantine? | Eastern orthodox Christianity |
| Frontier | Sparesely populated undeveloped area |
| Missi dominici | Rulers sent out officials |
| Fief | Estate |
| Vassal | Pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord |
| Chivalry | Knights code of conduct |
| Serf | Peasants on a manor |
| Sacrament | Sacred rights of the church |
| Tithe | Tax equal to a 10th of their income |
| Secular | Worldly |
| Papal supremacy | Authority over all secular rulers |
| Excommunication | Cant recieve a Christian burial |
| Interdict | Order excluding an entire town from receiving sacraments |
| Simony | Selling of church offices |
| Friar | Monks who didn't live in a monastery |
| Antisemitism | Prejudice against Jews |
| Charter | Written document set out rights of the town |
| What is feudalism? | A military system for running a kingdom |
| What were the years of the middle ages? | 1000-1200 |
| What was the guild formed by? | Merchants and craftsmen |
| Exchequer | Treasury |
| Annul | Cancel |
| Schism | Permanent division in a church |
| Levy | Collect |
| Scholasticism | School of thought that used logic and reason to support the Christian belief |
| Vernacular | Everyday language of ordinary people |
| Epic | Long narrative poem |
| What does magna carta mean? | Great charter |
| Benedictine rule: | Vows of obedience, poverty and purity |
| Ideogram | Pictures that symbolized ideas or actions |
| Demotic | Simpler form of writing |
| What would happen if people joined the crusades? | Forgiveness of sins, wealth and land and fame |
| First crusade did what? | recaptured Jerusalem |
| Aztec religion? | polytheistic |
| 5 Pillars of Islam | Declaration of faith, daisy prayer, charity to the poor, fast sunrise to sunset during Ramadan and Pilgrimage to Mecca |
| Other name for Nubia: | Kush |
| Influence of Nubia: | Egyptian |
| Who controlled North Africa and med. sea trade? | Carthage and Rome |
| "Ships of the desert" | Camels |
| 2 main trading product of north Africa: | Salt and gold |
| Bantu + Arabic language= | Swahili |
| Slash-and-burn | Cleared forests, burned the remains |
| Griot | professional poet |
| Prehistory | Long priod of time before people invented systems of writing |
| Anthropology | Study of the origins and development of people and society |
| Steppe | Nomadoc herders |
| Now Muslim, Egypt used to be... | Christian |
| In Athens, Pericles led the worlds first ______ | Democracy |
| All powerful Greek god: | Zeus |
| Athens battled with which city-state for 50 years? | Sparta |
| Why did the Romans set up a republic? | They didn't want a leader with too much power. |
| Aristocracy | Government headed by upper class |
| Oligarchy | Government where only a few people hold the power |
| Assimilate | To adopt another culture |
| What league did the Greeks form to protect against the Persians? | Delian league |
| Socrates | One of the most powerful thinkers in history |
| Student of Socrates, started the academy, and taugh about reason rational thought | Plato |
| Student of Plato,started the Lyceum | Aristotle |
| Father of medicine: | Hippocrates |
| Father of geometry | Euclid |
| Apostle | Leader or teacher of a new faith or movement |
| Punic war | Wars with Carthage and Africa |
| Sparta allied with_______ to capture Athens | Persia |
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