WHAP 1.1-1.2 - Developments in East Asia and Dar al-Islam

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms and concepts related to historical developments in East Asia and Dar al-Islam.

Champa Rice

A fast-ripening and drought resistent strain of rice from SE Asia.

Proto-Industrialization

A set of economic changes in which people in rural areas made more goods than they could sell.

Artisans

Skilled crafter workers.

Scholar-Gentry

The bureaucrats who ran the country and created a new social class.

Filial Piety

In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents + ancestor.

Grand Canal

Inexpensive and efficient internal water ways transportation system in China.

Song Dynasty

Replaced the Tang Dynasty in 960 and rules for 3 centerles.

Imperial Bureaucracy

A system of gov. in which most important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected officials.

Meritocracy

A system where gov. workers obtain their positions through ability or merit.

Woodblock Printing

A system of printing where wood blocks with characters were arranged to stamp words on multiple sheets of Paper.

Footbinding

Tightly wrapping young aristocratic girls feet so that they did not develop naturally.

Buddhism

Came to China via the Silk Road.

Theravada Buddhism

Focused on personal spiritual growth. Strongest in SEA.

Mahayana Buddhism

Focused on spiritual growth for all beings.

Tibetan Buddhism

Focused on chanting (?)

Syncretic

A belief system whose core beliefs transcend culture and actively recruit new members, by adapting to preexisting local customs and traditions.

Chan (Zen) Buddhism

Buddhism influenced by Daoism.

Neo-Confucianism

Reformed belief system that reacted to Buddhism's presence in China by forther emphasizing the importance of social relationships and the importance of principle and the material world.

Heian Period

Period of Japanese history led by the fujiwara family where Japan idealized Chinese culture.

Nuclear families

Just husband, wife, and children. Isolated from extended.

Polygyny

Practices of having more than one wife at a time.

Mamluk Sultanate

Governed from 1250-1517 in Egypt.

Seljuk Turks

Nomadic turks from Asia who conquered Baghdad in 1055 and allowed the caliph to remain only as a religious leader; they governed Strictly.

Sultan

A monarch or leader of a country.

Mongols

Conquered a part of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Abbasid Caliphate

Decendents of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad from 750 to 1258.

Mamluks

Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of The Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries; they founded their own state in Eygpt and Syria.

Muhammad

Founder of Islam, died in 632.

Crusaders

Christian soldiers who invaded the Middle East.

Sufis

This group of Islamic mystics representing a division of the Islamic world, other sects of Islam include Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

House of Wisdom

Center of learning found in Baghdad.

Baghdad

Mesopotamian city that was a center of Islamic culture and also trade.

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Islamic scholar based in Baghdad.

'A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah

Prolific female Muslim writer.