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History Exam Vocab.

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nomad   a traveler who travels to oasis to oasis in search of food and water  
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Arab   nomads that speak Arabic  
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tribe   families who travel together and form groups  
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idol   stsatues to represent religious gods  
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kabah   square shaped shrine in which Abraham and Ishmael built  
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Abu Bakr   Muhammad's successor and father-in-law who became caliph for two years until he died at age 61  
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caliph   Term used for the successor of Muhammad and political and military leader of Islam and was not considered a prophet  
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Shiites   A branch of Islam that believes that only relatives of Muhammad's to be his successor therefore Ali, not Abu Bakr, should have been his first successor (Shiites means "Party of Ali")  
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imam   "divinely guided" successor of Muhammad  
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Sunni   They do not believe imam to be divinely guided, believe in elected caliphs, believe all Muslims can be related to Muhammad, follow the Sunna  
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Muhammad   the prophet of God  
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Qur'an   written words that the angel Gabriel told Muhammad  
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monotheism   belief in one god  
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Allah   the Muslim word for "God"  
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Islam   a religion that believes in Allah  
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hadith   collection of things Muhammad did and said  
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Sunna   the hadith and Qur'an together  
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Medina   the place in which Muhammad fled to when he was rejected by Mecca - first place to accept Islam  
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5 pillars   1) No God but Muhammad and his prophet 2) prayer 5 times a day (washing facing the kabah) 3) alms for the poor 4) fast during Ramadan 5) Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)  
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Muslim   People who follow the Islam religion  
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Jihad   means struggle (the struggle to resist tempation and evil  
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Seljuk Turks   nomadic Turks from central Asia who conquered the Muslim Empire and ruled in Islamic tradition  
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Cordoba   capital of muslim kingdom and was the center or trade and culture and by 1000, was the most populated city with 450,000 people  
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Ferdinand (of Aragon) and Isabelle (of Castile)   Both had a lot of power so when they got married, they expelled all Muslims from Spain  
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Mongols   People from central Asia who with the Tartars founded a great empire - Their empire flourished between 1200-1500  
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steppe   Treeless plains in central Asia which has winters that are freezing and scorching summers  
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yurt   Tents that were made of felt and easy tot transport  
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clan   Patrilineal family groups in which people were related by kinship and made of 3,4, or 5 generations  
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Genghis Khan   Fled to Mogolia when his father was murdered and in 1206 AD elected khan - he shaped the Mongol army and helped make communications with a written language for soldiers  
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Kublai Khan   Grandson of Genghis who ruled 1260-1294 - under his reign, culture flourished and the empire reached zenith during his reign  
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Constantinople   was the great market, one could find all kinds of goods, 3000-4000 shops  
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Chief Osman   a ghazi that conquered and united various lands in Asia Minor around 1326 AD  
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sultan   ruler of the Ottoman Empire  
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Istanbul   Capital of the Ottoman empire after Constantinople and had a growing population of 200,000 and was the main trading center of rare beauty  
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Suleiman   In his reign the empire reached Hungary, north Egypt, Algeria, and Mesopotamia  
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Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna   Believed that Allah, through Muhammad, wanted him to invade India so from 997-1030 he invaded India 17 times to get their resources  
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Himalayas   fertile plains south of the mountains  
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Ganges and Indus Rivers   Their valleys were the richest in the world  
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Babur   Related to Genghis Khan and in 1527 he defeated the Rajputs - he was well-educated and well liked and built a new Mongol-like empire in northern India  
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Mughal Empire   Babur's empire and Mughal means Mongol in Indian-Persian  
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Akbar   He reigned for 49 years from 1556-1605 and during his reign, he expanded the empire to north and central India and Afghanistan - he developed his own religion, split the empire into provinces, and set the tax system - grandson of Babur  
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Shah Jahan   Ruled 1628-1658 and brought Mughal laws with Muslim laws and created the Taj Mahal  
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Taj Mahal   A tomb for Shah Jahan's wife who died in childbirth with her 14th child - it took 22 years and 22,000 workers to complete  
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Han Dynasty - 206 BC - 220 AD   Chinese culture thrived, even for women before it fell in 220 AD when nomadic horsemen took power of it - after it fell chaos ensued for 360 years  
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Confucianism   When the roles of men and women were further separated - RESPECT FOR ELDERS, RESPONSIBILITY TO DUTIES, CIVIL SERVICE, STRING FAMILY LIFE  
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Buddhism   Originated around 530 BC by silk traders - the philosophy teaches to escape suffering by desiring nothing through serious meditation and by 400, most regional kings accepted Buddhism  
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Yang Jian   He was a Buddhist emperor who reunited the Chihnese empire by seizing power and declaring himself emperor and his empire was the Sui Dynasty - built the new capital at Changan and encouraged Daoism  
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Great Wall   Yangdi rebuilt it in 607 and it was made to protect China's farms from nomadic horseman  
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Jimmu   Ninigi's grandson  
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Shinto   A religion in Japan that revolved around nature  
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Yoritomo   Leader of Minamoto who was goven the name "shogun"  
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shogun   meaning "great general"  
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samurai   Warriors  
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Kamakaze   "divine wind"  
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Zen   Form of Buddhism that believes in relaxation and nature  
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