600-1450 Vocab 2

Question 0

Caliph

Answer 0

A successor of Muhammad

Question 1

Bedouin

Answer 1

Nomadic pastoralists that converted to Islam

Question 2

Sharia

Answer 2

Body of law governing the Muslims

Question 3

Dhimmi

Answer 3

People of the book, applied first to Christians and then to many other religions

Question 4

Dar al-Islam

Answer 4

House of the Islam

Question 5

Shamanism

Answer 5

Mongol belief system

Question 6

Khanate

Answer 6

Regional mongol empires

Question 7

Three field system

Answer 7

European agricultural technique

Question 8

Vernacular

Answer 8

The native language of a country or region

Question 9

Parliament

Answer 9

Body that represents privileged groups

Question 10

Epidemic

Answer 10

A disease that spreads rapidly

Question 11

Pandemic

Answer 11

A disease that spreads world wide

Question 12

Corvee labor

Answer 12

An annual tax payed by labor

Question 13

Tribute

Answer 13

A payment of material goods to the government

Question 14

Split inheritance

Answer 14

Inca practice of ruler descent

Question 15

Sovereignty

Answer 15

The exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographical region or group of people

Question 16

Mita

Answer 16

Labor extracted from lands assigned to the state and the religion