Unit 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.6 Study Guide Content Vocab WHAP

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Scholar Gentry

The educated upper classes in China

Filial Piety

Attitude of respect for parents and ancestors in societies influenced by Confucian thought

Neo-Confucianism

Revived ancient Confucian teachings during Song era, emphasis ethics rather than the mysteries of God and nature

Heian Japan

Growing large estates and moving away from chinese culture

Imperial Bureaucracy

A vast organization in which appointed officials carried out the empire’s policies

Meritocracy

Government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability

Syncretic

The combination of different forms of belief or practice

Dar al-Islam

Religious conceptualization of the world as belonging either to Muslim or non-Muslim territory

Umayyad Dynasty

1st hereditary dynasty of Muslim caliphs that extended from Spain to India

Sufis

A group of Muslim mystics who desire a personal union with God

Mamluks

A group of Turkic military slaves who were part of the army of the Abbasid Caliphate

Seljuk Turks

Sunni Muslim nomadic Turks from Asia who conquered Baghdad and ruled Abbasid unofficially

Abbasid Caliphate

Second of the two great dynasties of the Muslim empire of the caliphate

House of Wisdom

Prominent intellectual center and public academy established in Baghdad

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Persian/Islamic astronomer and mathematician who joined the Mongols

Delhi Sultanate

The kingdom established by Muhammad’s successors to spread Islam in India

Khmer Empire

A powerful Hindu-Buddhist state in Southeast Asia that was centered around hydraulic cities

Bhakti Movement

A cult of devotion that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society

Feudalism

Greater lords provided protection to lesser lords in return for military service

Manorial System

A system of organization where serfs and peasants worked the land owned by the lord for protection

Crusades

Series of European military campaigns in the Middle East to reconquer Jerusalem from Muslim rule

Champa Rice

Quick maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season