world unit one

champa rice

rice imported from vietnam, drought resistant

artisans

skilled laborer

scholar gentry

new social class who passed confucian exam

filial piety

confucian teaching, respect your elders

grand canal

3,000 mile n->s chinese water trade route

meritocracy

bearauchracy with promotion through confucian exam

woodblock printing

advanced chinese writing system

Foot Binding

chinese practice of deforming womens feet; social status

Buddhism

religion new to E and SE asia; nirvana

neo-confucianism

saw buddhism as dangerous

syncretic

combining several religious traditions

Heian Period

Japanese cultural golden age

Lady Murasaki

worlds first novel

seljuk turks

invader who took over baghdad; converted to islam

abbasid caliphate

islamic empire based in baghdad

Sufis

islamic loyal syncretic religion

mamluks

invader who settled in egypt

house of wisdom

center of islamic cultural golden age

Baghdad

political capital of abbasid caliphate

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

islamic scholar, founded trig

aishah al-ba'uinyyah

female islamic poet

Rajput Kingdoms

islamic empire in india

Delhi Sultanate

first islamic empire in india

Khmer Empire

se asain empire, angkor wat temple

Bhakti Movement

hindu worship of a specific diety

proselytize

actively recruiting your religion

Qutub Minor

tallest structure in india

cahokia

n american mound builders

mexica

aztecs

theocracy

government led by religion

human sacrifice

aztec & mayan tribute requirement

mita system

incan labour tribute requirement

pachacuti

incan ruler

carpa nan

incan road system

temple of the sun

aztec religious center

animism

belief in nature spirits

timbuktu

mali trade city with islamic library

trans saharan trade network

trade network brought slaves to middle east

great zimbabwe

stone house culture in s africa

mansa musa

muslim mali king made hajj to mecca

serfs

european farmer, ran away to new cities

zanj

Arabic term for the people and coast of East Africa.

english parliment

new noble political body, checked english king

magna carta

english doc limiting kings power

manorial system

aztecs & mayan tribute requirement

three field system

used 1/3 of land as fallow, but made more food

feudalism

A political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land

serfs

Workers who were tied to the land on which they lived

estates general

french advisory/council to the king

renaisance

cultural rebirth

crusades

christains attacks on abbasids to get to jerusalem

kiev

early russian capital

social class in china

scholar gentry

nobles

artisans

mean persons

merchants

social class in feudal europe

pope

lord

knights

artisans

serfs

sufis

islam/india

sati

india

foot binding

china

house of wisdom

islam

grand canal

china

champa rice

vietnam

chanampas

aztecs

mound building

americas/illinois

mita system

groit

ss africa

renaissance

italy

three field system

europe

al-adalus

spain/islam

rajput

islam

ethiopia

east african/rock churches

swahili

bantu + arabic = trade lang

Kashgar

trading city on silk road

Khan

kingdom

Kublai Khan

yuan dynasty/china

Genghis Khan

Mongol leader of all

Swahili city sates

city states along iotn

mali

rich on gold

timbuktu

renouned center for islamic house of wisdom/learning

Trans Saharan

sand

Mansa Musa

rich and religious-famous for huge faith (muslim) good person

sultan

pol leader of seljuks