All Whap vocab terms

Bureaucracy

Meritocracy

Scholar gentry

Artisans

Merchants

Imperial

Tributary state

Foot binding

Civil Service Exam

Song Dynasty

Confucianism

Filial piety

Neo-Confucianism

Sinification/Sinicization

Nuclear family

Polygyny

Heian period

Theravada Buddhism

Mahayana Buddhism

Chan/Zen Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism

Monasticism

Gunpowder

Proto-industrialization

Woodblock printing

Champa Rice

Grand Canal

Flying Money

Muhammad

Mamluk Sultanate

Mongols

Seljuk Turks

Abbasid Caliphate

House of Wisdom in Baghdad

jizya

Sufism

Al-Andalus

“People of the book”

Delhi Sultanate

Bhakti Movement

Proselytize

Caste system

Chola Dynasty

Vijayanagara Empire

Rajput Kingdoms

Srivijaya Empire

Majapahit Kingdom

Sinhala dynasties

Khmer Empire

Feudalism

Daimyo

Shogun

Samurai

Vassal

Serf

Fief

Manorialism

Code of chivalry

Estates General

bourgeoisie

burghers

Magna Carta

English Parliament

The Hundred Years’ War

primogeniture

Marco Polo

Holy Roman Empire

Mali

Swahili

Great Zimbabwe

Ethiopia

chattel slave

domestic slave

griot/griotte

Kin-based network

Mississippian culture

Cahokia

matrilineal

patrilineal

patriarchy

theocracy

animism

Maya city-states

Azetc/Mexica



Silk Roads

Indian Ocean Trade

Trans-Saharan Trade

magnetic compass

stern rudder

lateen sails

junk ship

astrolabe

Kashgar

Samarkand

Constantinople

paper money

money economy

flying cash

banking houses

bill of exchange

caravanserai

Hanseatic League

porcelain

monsoon winds

Spice Islands

diaspora

dhow ships

Mali

Mansa Musa

Timbuktu

Mecca

Songhai / Songhay Kingdom

camel saddle

caravan

Sundiata

khan

khanates

Genghis Khan

siege weapons

cannon

Uyghur alphabet

Mongol Empire

Pax Mongolica

Golden Horde

Moscow

Il-Khanate

Yuan Dynasty

Kublai Khan

Ming Dynasty

bubonic plague / Black Death

gunpowder

Ibn Battuta

Marco Polo

Margery Kempe

Swahili city-states

Zheng He

Calicut

Gujarat

Indian Ocean slave trade

Malacca / Melaka

diasporic communities

oases

Sahara Desert

Arabian Desert
Champa rice

bananas

environmental degradation



political legitimacy

Gunpowder Empires

Gutenberg Printing Press

Ivan IV (aka Ivan the Terrible)

boyars

serfdom

Peter the Great (aka Peter I)

St. Petersburg

Orthodox Church

Holy Synod

Romanov Dynasty

Ming Dynasty

Qing Dynasty

Kangxi

Qianlong

Manchus

tribute

Tamerlane (aka Timur)

ghazi ideal

Mughal Empire

Delhi

Babur

Akbar

Aurangzeb

Shah Jahan

castes (aka jatis)

Ottoman Empire

caliph

Mehmed II

Suleiman I

Suleymaniye Mosque

Topkapi Palace

millet system

Safavid Empire

Persia

Ghulams

shah

Ismail

Abbas I

Songhai

mansa

Askia the Great

devshirme

Janissary

samurai

divine right of kings

absolute monarchy

Cardinal Richelieu

intendants

Versailles

Louis XIV

Huguenots

Edict of Nantes

zamindar

Taj Mahal

tax farming

Protestant Reformation

95 Theses

Martin Luther

indulgences

simony

Peace of Augsburg

Counter/Catholic Reformation

Inquisition

Jesuits

Council of Trent

Thirty Years’ War

Peace of Westphalia

John Calvin

Puritans

King Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn

Anglican Church

Spanish Armada

Sikhism

shariah

shogunate

Tokugawa shogunate

Edo

daimyo

jizya

justices of the peace

English Bill of Rights

Scientific Revolution

empiricism



cartography

primogeniture laws

Omani-European rivalry

maritime empires

astronomical chart

caravel

carrack

fluyt

Henry the Navigator

Bartholomew Diaz

Vasco da Gama

Ferdinand Magellan

trading post empire

Manila

galleons

Christopher Columbus

Columbian Exchange

triangular trade

bullion

New Spain

viceroy

audiencias

Francisco Pizarro

Atahualpa

Hernan Cortez

Moctezuma

conquistadores

smallpox

The Great Dying

Treaty of Tordesillas

African Diaspora

transatlantic slave trade

Indian Ocean slave trade

Middle Passage

engenhos

coercive labor

chattel slavery

mita system

indentured servitude

encomienda

Encomenderos

hacienda

Mercantilism

Asante Empire

Kingdom of the Kongo

Dahomey

Oyo

Ndongo

Matamba

Ana Nzinga 

polygyny

capital

Commercial Revolution

joint-stock company

limited liability

British East India Company

Dutch East India Company

royal chartered monopoly companies

syncretism

Virgin of Guadalupe

Vodun

Santeria

Candomble

casta system

casta paintings

mestizos

mulattos

zambos

creoles (aka criollos)

peninsulares

the Fronde

Jaques Cartier 

Samuel de Champlain

Quebec

New France

John Cabot

Jamestown

Mohegan

Pequot

Wampanoag

Metacom’s War (aka King Philip’s War)

Henry Hudson

New Amsterdam

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Cossacks

Pugachev Rebellion

Maratha Empire

Pueblo Revolt

Maroon wars

Queen Nanny

Glorious Revolution

James II of England

William of Orange

Mary II of England

Barbary pirates

impressment

Sephardic Jews

Ashkenazi Jews

queue (in Qing China)



enlightenment

John Locke

Thomas Hobbes

tabula rasa

philosophes

Baron Montesquieu

Voltaire

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

social contract

natural rights

separation of powers

deism

Thomas Paine

classical liberalism

conservatism

socialism

Fabian Society

empiricism

nationalism

feminism

Mary Wollstonecraft

suffrage

Adam Smith

laissez-faire

capitalism

abolitionism

end of serfdom

Zionism

anti-Semitism

Theodor Herzl

Dreyfus Affair

self-determination

American Revolution

Declaration of Independence

French Revolution

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

liberté, égalité, fraternité

Reign of Terror

Haitian Revolution

Toussaint L'Ouverture

maroons

Jamaica Letter

Simón Bolívar

casta system

Peninsulares

Creoles (criollos)

mestizos

mulattoes

Propaganda Movement

Italian unification

Giuseppe Garibaldi

German unification

Realpolitik

Otto von Bismarck

Balkan nationalism

Ottomanism