Ap World History Vocab 2

Bushido

code of behavior

Champa Rice

fast ripening and drought resistant strain of rice from Vietnam

Angkor Wat

great temple complex

Bhakti Movement

Hindus, rather than emphasize studying texts/rituals, focused on attachment to particular deity

Chan (Zen) Buddhism

Buddhist doctrines combined with elements of Daoist traditions to create the syncretic or fused faith

Daimyo

powerful japanese magnates, feudal lords

Filial Piety

respect and giving to parents, particularly father

Foot Binding

Young girls' foot is binding to stop growth

Grand Canal

inexpensive and efficient internal waterway transportation system, 30,000 miles

Heian Period

the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185

Meritocracy

officials obtained their positions by demonstrating their merit on these exams

NeoConfucianism

Combining rational thought with the more abstract ideas of Taoism and Buddhism

Proselytize

to actively seek converts (islam)

Proto-industrialization

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

Qutub Minar

rulers of Delhi sultanate built mosque over a hindu temple because they preferred islam

Samurai

Warriors-mounted-elite

Scholar-gentry

civil servants followed principles of Confucianism, encouraged Chinese society to maintain morals like selflessness

Seppuku

Ritual suicide commits by samurai who failed Restores family honor and show courage

al-Andalus

Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula

Hijab

dressing modestly or to a specific type of covering

House of Wisdom

largest library

Jizya

tax placed on all non-Muslims

Mamluks

slaves that served as soldiers and government officials

Sufis

Emphasized introspection to grasp truths that they believed could not be understood through learning

Cahokia

largest of these mounds

Carpa Nan

Massive roadway system Built by captive labor, 25,000 miles

Chinampas

Floating gardens to increase food production

Mississippian

Mississippi River Valley inhabitants

Mita system

Mandatory public service Allyu-small groups of workers that would work on government projects

Orejones

Families with Big Ears Because of the large plugs worn on earlobes

Popul Vuh

Most famous codex left

Quecha

language, Incas made conquered people learn

Quipu

system of knotted strings to record numerical info for trade, engineering and recording messages to go throughout the empire

Waru Waru

Raised beds with channels that captured/redirected rain to avoid erosion during floods and stored water

Bantu migration

spread from homeland in Cameroon and Nigeria throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa from 1500 BCE -500 CE.

Chattel

Slaves were legal property of the owner, child auto. a slave, no rights

Great Zimbabwe

Capital city

Griots

story tellers, Possessed encyclopedic knowledge of family lineages and lives/deeds of great leaders

Trans-Saharan Trade

Network of trading routes across the great desert

Zanj Rebellion

15,000 slaves organized by Ali bin Muhammad capture capital city of Basra (Iran) and established splinter government

Antisemitism

anti jewish sentiment, widespread among Christians

Battle of Hastings

battle between William and other army for throne, Will won

Boyars

privileged class of rich landowners

Chivalry

Unwritten rules for conduct focusing on honor, courtesy and bravery

Concordat of Worms

church (not gov.) has all authority over church affairs

Crusades

religious, social, economic pressures resulted in series of European military campaigns from 1095-1200

Fealty

Oath of loyalty called from knights

Feudalism

system of moral obligations, gov gave protection, exchange for loyalty and service

Great Schism

church split into two parts

Guilds

Association of craftsmen and merchants

Homage

ceremony, knights pledged to fight for lord and king

Humanism

approach to life based on reason and common humanity, moral values are founded on human nature and experience

Magna Carta

Required king to respect certain rights of nobles

Manorial system

involved a manor house on a self-sufficient estate worked by peasants, serfs, and free laborer

Renaissance

period of revival of greek and roman art and lit and culture

Scholasticism

the system of theology and philosophy taught in medieval European universities

Serfs

not slaves, peasants that work land

Simony

the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices

Usury

lending money with interest

Vassal

person who receives land for pledging loyalty

Vernacular

Native language, Latin

Interdict

destroy damage or cut off (like an enemy line of supply)

Charlemagne

revived learning based on bible and latin writings

Charles Martel

stopped Islam taking over Europe

Clovis

king of the Franks and ruler of much of Gaul from 481 to 511

Ivan the Great

Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1462 until his death in 1505

Joan of Arc

claimed to contacted by angel, fought, got captured, burned at stake

King John

king of England, lost Duchy of Normandy and most other French lands to King Philip II of France

Machiavelli

Florentine diplomat, author, philosopher, historian during the Italian Renaissance

Marco Polo

italian native visited kublai khan(beijing), and wrote about way of life

Olga

regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav from 945 until 957

Otto 1

king, holy emperor in 962

Prince Vladimir

grand prince of Kyiv and the first Christian ruler in Kievan Rus

St. Thomas Aquinas

first person to speak out for Scholasticism, followed Aristotle

Urban II

pope, gave speech that people have morals and must protect holy (all) land

William the Conqueror

first Norman king of England, leading the Norman Conquest of England in 1066

Harihara & Bukka

founded Vijayanagara Empire

Lad Ded [Mother Lalla]

a Hindu poet-saint from Kashmir, who defied social convention in her search for God

Murasaki Shikibu

Japanese novelist, poet and lady-in-waiting at the Imperial court in Heian period, Tale of Genji

Pachacuti

1438 tribal leader, Will result in the Incan Empire, means transformer or shaker

Prince Shotoku Taishi

regent and a politician of the Asuka period in Japan who served under Empress Suiko

Zheng He

Chinese admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty

A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah

Sufi poet, most prolific female muslim writer

Al Khwarizimi

polymath who produced vastly influential Arabic-language works in mathematics, astronomy, and geography

Al Razi

Persian physician, philosopher and alchemist who lived during the Islamic Golden Age

Ibn Khaldun

Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian, greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies

Ibn Rushd

Andalusian polymath and jurist, philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, Islamic jurisprudence and law, and linguistics.

Ibn-al Haytham

medieval mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age from present-day Iraq

Maimonides

the greatest Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages

Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian