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Filial Piety

The virtue of respect for one's parents and ancestors, emphasizing duties and loyalty within familial relationships, especially in Chinese culture.

House of Wisdom

An intellectual center in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age, where scholars gathered to translate and study various texts, including those from Greece, Persia, and India.

Bhakti Movement

A devotional trend in medieval Hinduism emphasizing personal devotion to a god, promoting equality and rejecting caste distinctions.

Chinampa

A Mesoamerican agricultural method involving the creation of raised fields on shallow lake beds, allowing for more productive farming.

Manorialism

A system of rural economy and social organization in medieval Europe that revolved around the lord's manor, where peasants worked the land in exchange for protection and sustenance.