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33 Cards in this Set
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Marco Polo
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son of a venetian merchant
traveled through east asia |
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Ibn Battuta
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saw the whole islamic world without traveling the same road twice
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Aztecs
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called themselves the Mexicas
very powerful traded with other tribes impressive irrigaion system |
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Incas
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lived in south america in the Andes mountians
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Tenochtitlan
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the aztec metropolis, lots of trade, and religious activity
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Mansa Musa
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ruler of the mali territory, marked islam controlling the region.
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Dar-al-Islam
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the house of islam
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Muhammad
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the Islaic prophet that wrote the words of god
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Quran
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the Islamic holy book
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Sharia
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writings, opions, and commentaries of Islamic jurists
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Hadith
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Muslim sayings
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five pillars
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1) belief in the affirmation that there is no God but Allah, 2)pray five times a day, 3)offer alms to support the less fortunate, 4) fast during Ramadan, 5)Pilgrimage to Mecca
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sunnies and shiites
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shiites believed that only the descendants of ali(themselves) could rule, sunni was the majority
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hindu religions
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took all religions it came into contact with and incorporated them into its own, found unity in the caste system
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varna orders
or Caste System |
brahmans, priest, Kshatriyas, warrior, vaishyas, merchants and artisans, Shudras, peasants and laborers, untouchables
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Dehli Sultanate
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the ruling power in the Indian sub-continent
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sufism
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Islam that emphasised emotional religious rituals and absorbed hinduism and local devotional cults
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feudal system
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Christendom's form of controlling where the king gave control of land and its inhabitants to "lords"
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fourth lateran council
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1215 established a common creed and certified seven sacraments
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jin and song dynasties
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jin ruled the north while song ruled the south
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buddhism
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siddhartha gautama, the enlightened one, taught that people should be liberated from suffering through righteous living
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daoism
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was first a philosophical school of thought
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confucianism
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leaders should lead by example, moral and ethical
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daimyo
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Japanese lords with power of peasants
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angkor
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Mekong Delta- indian political instituations and middle kingdom religions
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Mongols
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nomads from north of the middle kingdom that controlled most the known world
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Chinggis Khan
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ruler of the mongols
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Kubilai Khan
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the great khan, conquered jin and song
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Yuan Dynasty
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the Mongol infulenced middle kingdom
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Pax Mongolica
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the peace that happened under Mongol control
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1206
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start of the Mongol attacks
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1271-1295
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Marco Polo travels east asia
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1258
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fall of abbasid empire to gongols
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