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Song Dynasty
A Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279.
Grand Canal
An economically vital series of waterways that linked the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers.
Champa Rice
Quick-maturing, drought resistant crop that could allow for two harvests per growing season.
Tributary System
The form for conducting diplomatic and trade relations with China before the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty in 1911.
Kowtow
The act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground.
Scholar Gentry
Used to describe members of China's landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as government officials.
Foot Binding
Used to make women's feet stay small.
Zen Buddhism
Enlightenment is achieved through the profound realization that one is already an enlightened being.
Filial Piety
Central virtue that emphasizes love, respect, and support for one's parents and ancestors.
Neo- Confucianism
Revival of Confucian teaching during the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty and a subsequent study of Confucianism with aspects of Buddhism and Taoism.
Sinification
Assimilation or spread of Chinese culture.
House of Wisdom
Center of learning, transfer knowledge throughout Afro-Eurasia.
Hijab
Head cover worn by Muslim women.
Swahili
Bantu-speaking people of the East African coast, living in towns and villages.
Battle of Tours
Rare defeat for Islamic military.
People of the Book
A non-Muslim living under the protection of a Muslim state.
Delhi Sultanate
Muslim kingdom that ruled parts of India from the 13th to 16th centuries.
Jizya
Yearly tax against non-Muslim residents of an Islamic country.
Proselytize
To recruit or convert to a new faith.
Caste System
Set of rigid social categories that determine a person's position in society.
Qutub Minar
Highest stone tower in India.
Bhakti Movement
Movement in southern India that focused on developing a strong attachment to a deity.
Angkor Wat
Temple complex of the Khmer Empire.
Cahokia
Ancient settlement of southern Indians.
Matrilineal Society
Kinship system in which ancestral decent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines.
City-State
Political system consisting of an independent city.
Tenochtitlan
Capital of the Aztec Empire
Great Pyramid
Large, stone monument used as a burial place for a king.
Chinampas
Raised field constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Theocracy
System of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
Pochteca
Professional merchants in the Aztec Empire whose wealth often elevated them to elite status.
Mit’a System
Recruiting workers for particularly difficult and dangerous chores that free laborers would not accept.
Carpa Nan
Massive Inca roadway system
Trans-Saharan Trade
Exchange of goods across the largest desert
Hausa kingdoms
Formed seven city-states with no central authority benefited from trans-Saharan trade.
Sundiata
First ruler of the Mali Empire
Indian Ocean trade
Connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia.
Great Zimbabwe
Houses out of stone, trade center, and capital of a large state
Zanj Rebellion
Enslaved East Africans on sugar plantations in Mesopotamia.
Griots/Griottes
Stories, histories, epics, and other transmitted by professional singers and storytellers well known in Africa.
Indian Ocean Slave trade
Traded East Africa to Southwest Asia, due to a strong demand in the Middle East for enslaved workers.
Feudalism
Lords gave lands to vassals in exchange for military service and loyalty.
Fiefs
Farmed by peasants who were allowed to live on the land in exchange for taxes.
Serfs
Could keep a portion of their harvests, but they sent the majority of their earnings to their lord.
Three- Field system
Crop rotation in which a field is planted with one set of crops one year, a different set in the next year, and then left fallow in the third year.
Estates General
Meeting of the three estates in France: Clergy, Nobility, and Commoners.
Magna Carta
Agreement imposed on King John to limit his power.
Great Schism
Separation of the Catholic church of the West from the Orthodox churches of the East.
First Crusade
Launched in 1095 by the Catholic pope against the forces of Islam in the holy land.
Fourth Crusade
Venetians convincing Crusaders to attack rivals of Venice rather than going to the Holy Land.
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