front 1 Song dynasty | back 1 Chinese dynasty; golden age; invention of magnetic compass, paper money, and gun powder |
front 2 Confucianism | back 2 A philosophy by the Chinese philosopher Confucius; ensures a stable government, orderly society and moral code of conduct |
front 3 Filial piety | back 3 One of the virtues by Confucian; a respect and love for one's parents and ancestors |
front 4 Neo-Confucianism | back 4 Confucian response to Buddhism by combining both beliefs |
front 5 Theravada Buddhism | back 5 Oldest of the variations; holds close to the original teachings of the Buddha |
front 6 Tibetan Buddhism | back 6 Includes elements from India; teaches people to use special techniques to harness spiritual energy and achieve nirvana |
front 7 Champa rice | back 7 Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season; increased populations in Song dynasty. |
front 8 Grand canal | back 8 The 1,100-mile waterway in China linking the Yellow and Yangzi rivers; began during Han period and completed in Sui dynasty |
front 9 Flying money | back 9 Chinese credit instrument that provided credit vouchers |
front 10 Seljuk Empire | back 10 Turkic empire ruled by sultans in Persia; demonstrated weakness of Abbasid caliphate in later years; sultans held real power |
front 11 Delhi sultanate | back 11 First Islamic government established within India from 1205 to 1520 |
front 12 Abbasid Caliphate | back 12 Focused more on administration than conquering; (750-1258 CE); bureaucracy that any Muslim could be a part of |
front 13 Bhakti movement | back 13 An immensely popular development in Hinduism advocating intense devotion towards a particular deity |
front 14 Sufism | back 14 Islamic tradition that desired a person union with God; focused on intuition rather than rational deduction and studying |
front 15 Feudalism | back 15 Political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belonged to their king in exchange for loyalty |
front 16 Vassal | back 16 a person under protection of a feudal lord to whom they owe allegiance |
front 17 serf | back 17 an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work in an estate |
front 18 Manorialism | back 18 Revolved around self-sufficient farming estates |
front 19 Great Zimbabwe | back 19 Powerful state in the African interior that emerged from the growing trade in gold the East African coast |
front 20 Cahokia | back 20 Dominant center of an important Mississippi valley mound-building culture |
front 21 Maya city-states | back 21 Culture in Southern Mexico and Central America; featured architecture, written language, calendar system and mathematical system |
front 22 Meritocracy | back 22 government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability |
front 23 Syncretism | back 23 The unification or blending of opposing people, ideas, or practices; mostly religion |
front 24 Mita system | back 24 economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced |
front 25 Chinampas | back 25 Floating garden constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs |
front 26 Waru Waru | back 26 A form of farming used in the Inca empire; divided the hills into terraces or flat steps; could control the amount of water being put into specific places |
front 27 Crusades | back 27 A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule |
front 28 Renaissance | back 28 Rebirth following the Middle Ages; movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome |
front 29 Great Schism | back 29 Divided medieval Christianity into Greek and Latin branches; Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church |
front 30 Fief | back 30 land granted by a lord to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and service |