Vocab  words

Vocabulary Unit 3

Post Classical Era, 600-1450 CE

 

Part I—(500)600-1000CE  Post Classical Era

Chapter 13 The Commonwealth of Byzantium

 

Balkan region

Body of Civil Law

Byzantine Empire

caesaropapism

Constantinople

Eastern Orthodox Church

Greek fire

Hagia Sophia

iconoclasm

Justinian

Kiev Rus

Prince Vladimir

Saints Cyril and Methodius

schism

St. Basil

theme system

Theodora

 

 

Chapter 14 The Expansive Realm of Islam

 

Abbasid Dynasty

Abu Bakr

Allah

Baghdad

Bedouin peoples

Berbers

caliph

Cordoba

Dar al-Islam

Five Pillars

hajj

hijra

Iberian Peninsula

Islam

jihad

jizya

Ka’ba

madrasas

Mecca

mosque

Muhammad

Muslim

Persian miniatures

qadis

Quran (Koran)

Ramadan

sharia

Shia

Sufis

sultan

Sunni

Umayyad dynasty

umma

 

Chapter 15 The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

 

bushido

Chan Buddhism

Chang-an

daimyo

equal field system

flying cash

foot binding

Grand Canal

Hangzhou

Heian Japan

magnetic compass

Mahayana Buddhism

meritocracy

moveable Type

Nara Japan

Neo-Confucianism

samurai

Silla kingdom

Song

Song economic revolution

Sui dynasty

Taika Reforms

Tang

Trung Sisters

Vietnam

Xuanzang

 

Chapter 16 India and the Indian Ocean Basin

 

Angkor Wat

Axum

Chola Kingdom

dhows

guilds

Indian Ocean trade

jati

Java

junks

Melaka

raja

Shiva

Sultanate of Delhi

Vishnu

 

Chapter 17 The Foundations of Christian Society in Western Europe

 

“Dark Ages”

Charlemagne

Clovis

feudalism

lord

manorialism

monasticism

Norse

Papacy

primogeniture

serfs

vassal

Vikings

 

Part II An Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction 1000—1500 C.E.

 

Chapter 18 Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration

 

Bubonic Plague

Chinggis Khan

Golden Horde

Istanbul

kamikaze

Karakorum

Khanates

Kublai Khan

Mamluks

Mongols

Ottoman Empire

Saljuq Turks (Seljuk Turks)

Samarkand

Tamerlane

Turkish Migrations

Yuan Dynasty

yurts

 

Chapter 19 States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Benin

chiefdoms

Ethiopia

Gao

Ghana

Great Zimbabwe

griots

Kongo

kinship

Mali

Mansa Musa

stateless societies

Sundiata

Swahili city-states

Timbuktu

Trans-Saharan trade

 

Chapter 20 Western Europe During the High Middle Ages

 

Crusades

Gothic

Guilds

Hanseatic League

Holy Roman Empire

investiture

Italian States

Pope Urban II

reconquista

Romanesque

Scholasticism

St. Thomas Aquinas

three estates

three-field systems

troubadours

universities

Venice

vernacular

William the Conqueror

 

Chapter 21 Worlds Apart:  The Americas and Oceania

 

Aztecs

chinampas

Cuzco

Hawaii

Incas

Iroquois Peoples

Maoris

Maya

Mexica

Mississippian culture

Pre-Columbian

Pueblo and Navajo

Quipu

Tenochtitlan

Toltecs

tribute

 

Chapter 22 Reaching out:  Cross-Cultural Interactions

 

“little ice age”

Bartolemeu Dias

Black Death

eunuchs

Fernando and Isabel

Humanism

Hundred Years’ War

Ibn Battuta

Marco Polo

Ming

Mandarins

Prince Henry the Navigator

Renaissance

Silk routes

Vasco da Gama

Zheng He