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40 Cards in this Set
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5 Pillars of Islam |
One God Prayer 5 times a day Charity Ramadan The hajj |
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Sultanate |
Muslim Government |
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caliph |
A spiritual and political leader of islam claiming succession from Muhammad |
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Vikings |
Scandinavian people who raided Europe between the 8th and 7th centuries |
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Mamluks |
Slave soldiers who converted to Islam, They rose to power in Egypt. Stopped the Mongols in 13th century |
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Griots |
African storyteller, advisor and historian |
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Mali |
West African Kingdom established by sundita and later led by mansa must in the 14th century |
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Ghana |
West African Kingdom which traded gold for salt, 6th-13th centuries |
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Mansu Musa |
King of Mali, whose famous hajj caused inflation because of the gold he distributed along his way to Mecca |
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Sufis |
Muslim mystics who helped to spread Islam to India and Southeast Asia |
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Guilds |
Economic associations between people in the same business or craft |
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Feudalism |
A political system based on rigid social classes, loyalty and the granting of land to nobles or warriors |
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Ibn Battuta |
Muslim Traveler, 14th c., who wrote about the world of Islam. Morocco to south east asia |
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The Great schism |
A decision between the western Christian church and the Eastern (orthodox) church in 1054 |
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Byzantine Empire |
The remainder of the Roman Empire in the East, it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 |
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chinampas |
Artificaial Islands on which Mesoamericans grew crops |
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Aztec |
Mesoamerica Kingdom which built its capita, Tenochtitlan, on a lake. Conquered by cortez in 1519 |
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Inac |
South American kingdom known for building a vast systems of roads, conquered by Pizarro in 1532 |
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Quipu |
A system of knotted yarn used by the Inca to communicate across their empire |
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Neo Confucianism |
A revival of traditions and beliefs during the Tang and Song, which effected women negatively |
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Gunpowder |
invented in china during the song dynasty |
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Samurai |
The equivalent of the knight in Europe |
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Tribute |
A payment to a government, could be labor or goods. |
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golden horde |
Mongol Empire which occupied Russia from the 13th century to the 15th century |
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humanism |
Western European movement which stressed the power and beauty of the mind, 14th century |
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zheng He |
Chinese admiral who traveled to Africa in the 15th century, he used 100 yard long treasure junks |
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Marco polo
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13th century traveler who stayed at the courts of Kubilai Khan for 17 years |
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Islam |
Monotheistic religion with 5 pillars founded in 622 |
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Indian ocean trading network |
Trade network which included East Africa, the Middle East, India, south East Asia and China |
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Trans-Saharan Trading Network |
Trade route centered on Salt and Gold |
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swahili |
African Language derived from Bantu, Arabic and persian |
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Syncretism |
The combining of two different things to make something new |
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Silk Road |
Ancient trade route running from china, to central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean |
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Crusades |
An attempt to take the "holy land" from the Muslims. resulted in the spread of ideas to Europe |
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Mongols |
Nomadic group unified in the 13th century. Created the largest land empire up to that time |
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Black Death |
14th century pandemic which came from china and killed at least 1/4 of the Europeans |
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renaissance |
the reawakening of the western Europe, the revival of roman art ideas |
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genghis khan |
the unifier of the mongols |
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Joan of Arc |
French leader who helped to expel the English bus was burned at the stake in 1431 |
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Constantinople |
Capital of the Byzantine Empire, conquered by the ottomans in 1453 |
