occurred from the year 1960 to 1279, ruled over large parts of Chinese civilization and was a golden age of arts and literature
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Hangzhou
The Song Dynasty capital, was home to more than a million people
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Foot binding
the practice of tightly wrapping young girls feet which would usually cause breaking of bones and intense pain
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Hangul
Developed in the mid 1400s and is a phonetic alphabet for writing the Korean language
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Chu Nom
Vietnamese style of writing
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Bushido
the way of the samurai, a distinctive set of values such as bravery, loyalty, endurance, honor, great skill in martial arts, and most importantly a preference for death over surrender
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Abbasid caliphate
had ruled the Islamic world since 750, but was beginning to weaken and face challengers
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Seljuk Turkic Empire
They began to claim the Muslim title of Sultan during 11th and 12th centuries, as they became major players in the Islamic Middle East
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Ottoman Empire
was the creation of one of the many Turkic warrior groups that had migrated into Anatolia that brought greater long-term political unity to the Islamic Middle East and North Africa
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al-Andalus
How Muslims refer to spain
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The Byzantine Empire
a sophisticated and powerful Christian empire but had entered a steady state of decline by 1200
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Constantinople
was the capital of Byzantine and was also referred to as New Rome and their people as Romans
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity
defined the authority of the emperor as supreme and absolute because was anointed by God
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The Crusades
were launched in 1095 by the Catholic pope against the forces of Islam
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Kievan Rus
emerged in a region near where Ukraine is now and was a significant region of expansion for orthodox Christianity
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Roman Catholic Church
had an extreme amount of influence spread across the entire western European region
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European Renaissance
began in the vibrant cities of Italy between 1350 and 1500, lead to citizens actively inspiration in art and literature of Ancient Greece and Romeo
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Maya civilization
dominated a region centered on modern day Guatemala between 250 and 900 CE
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Aztec Empire
prospered from 1345 to 1528 and was the last and largest of the Mesoamerican states to emerge before the Spanish conquered the region in the early 16th century
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Inca Empire
stretched 2500 miles along the Andes and contained an estimation of 10 million subjects during short life in the 15th and early 16th centuries
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