APWH Unit 1 Vocabulary and Maps

a sign of increased patriarchy and control of women during this "golden age" of China

honoring of ancestors; essential to Confucianism

remembered as a "golden age" of technological innovation and economic growth

One sect believed the religious leader was divine the other sect did not

A philosophy that revived old ways of thinking while adding Buddhist and Doaist elements

a form of Islamic mysticism, followers were important in the spread of Islam in conquered lands

the rule or reign by a chief Muslim ruler (both a political and religious rule)

Dynasty of Muslim rulers with its capitol in Baghdad, became fragmented in 1258

the combination of different forms of belief or practice

the rule or reign by a chief Muslim ruler (mainly political, less religious rule)

a significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism, focus on devotion to achieve salvation

a group of Turks who migrated into Southwest/Central Asia, converted to Islam and founded an empire

major Turkic Muslim state established in northern India in 1206

a medieval Indian Empire that covered much of the southernmost part of South Asia (India)

a center of Islamic discovery in many fields of study, important in the translation movement

an ethnolinguistic group of interconnected yet indpendent city states in Mesoamerica

an empire in Mesoamerica that conquered neighboring groups, capitol of Tenochtitlan

a major Javanese, maritime, Hindu-Buddhest empire in Southeast Asia

a massive temple (originally Hindu but transformed into Buddhist) in the Khmer Empire

a major Indonesian maritime empire in Southeast Asia, a major center of Mahayana Buddhism

a technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture, also known as floating gardens

an agricultural technique used to grow crops on steep sloped by creating flat steps

a large empire built by the Quecha-speaking people on the coast of Peru in South America

the metropolitan capitol of the Aztec Empire, with a population of 150,000-200,000 people.

a mandatory service in the Inca empire, a type of tribute/tax to the government in the form of labor

diverse group of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa from before the arrival of Arabs

some states (found in Nigeria today) that thrived as part of the trans-Saharan trade network

the migration of people speaking this language from central Africa out across sub-Saharan Africa

a medieval city/kingdom, connected to the growing trade of gold, Indian Ocean trade network

a Christian state in Africa, fought with many of the nearby Islamic states, remained independent

a form of government in which a person is head of state for life (often hereditary)

a system where peasants belonged to a piece of land, form of coerced labor

system where a landowner(lord) gave a fief(land) in return for a promise of loyalty from a vassal

A period of cooling temperatures and harsh winters that lasted for much of the early modern era

the surviving Eastern half of the Roman Empire. capitol of Constantinople, Eastern Orthodoxy

a series of "holy wars" waged by the Roman Catholic Church and European against Muslims in SW Asia

a document establishing a set of rights for lords in England, signed by King John of England