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Black Death |
catastrophic outbreak of a plague that spread from the black sea, to europe, middle east, and africa |
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pandemic |
an outbreak of epidemic disease that spreads across an entire region |
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little ice age |
name applied by environmental historians to periods of prolonged cool weather in the temperate zones of the earth |
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oligarchy |
rule by a small group of individuals or families |
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neo-confusionism |
the reformulation of confucian doctrines to re assert a commitment to moral perfection and the betterment of society |
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sufism |
a tradition within Islam that emphasizes mystical knowledge and personal experience of the divine |
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theocracy |
a state ruled by religious authority |
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Janissary Corps |
slave soldiers who served as a principal armed forces of the Ottoman Empire beginning in the 15th century; also staffed much of the ottoman stat bureaucracy |
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trade diaspora |
a network of merchants from the same city/country who live permanently in foreign lands and cooperate with one another to pursue trading opportunities |
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renaissance |
a period of intense intellectual and artistic creativity in europe |
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humanism |
study of humanities> rhetoric, poetry, history and moral philosophy based on greek and roman writers |
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samurai |
literally "those who serve" the heredity warriors who dominated Japanese society and culture from 20th to 19th century |
