Chapter 9 Flashcards
The words first written civil service examination system, instituted by the Tang Dynasty to recruit officials bureaucrats.
Civil service examinations
Open to most males, these tested a candidates literacy skills and knowledge of Confucian classics.
Civil service examinations
They helped to unite the Chinese state by making knowledge of a specific language and Confucian classics the only route to power.
Civil service examinations
The head of the religious community
Ummmah
Loyal and well paid men who were surgically castrated as youths and remained in service to the caliph emperor.
Eunuchs
Both the Tang and Abbasid rulers relied for protection on a cadre of these people.
Eunuchs
The five tenets, or main aspects, of Islamic practice
Five pillars of Islam
Enduring form of Christianity that used the framework of the Roman state inherited from Constantine and Justinian to protect itself from Roman Catholic and Muslim forces.
Greek Orthodoxy
It’s capital was Constantine and its spiritual empire included the Russian people’s, Baltic Slavs, and people’s living in southwest Asia.
Greek Orthodox
Christian way of life that originated in Egypt and was practiced as early as 300 CE in the Mediterranean.
Monasticism
The word itself contains the meaning of a person “living alone” without marriage or family.
Monasticism
Branch of Christianity established by 1000CE in Western Europe and led by the roman papacy.
Roman Catholic Church
Literally “the way”, now used to indicate the philosophy and rulings of Islamic law
Sharia
Group of supporters of Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son in law, who wanted him to be the first caliph and believed that members of the prophets family deserved to rule.
Shiites
Leaders of the Shiite communities
Imam
Orthodox Muslims. The majority sect of Islamthat originally supported the succession of Abu Bakr over Ali and supported the rule of consensus rather than family lineage for the succession to the Islamic caliphate
Sunnis
A people from Scandinavia who replaced the franks as the dominate warrior class in Northern Europe in the ninth century CE
Vikings
They used their superior ships to loot other seagoing people’s and sailed up the rivers of Russia to establish a trade route that connected Scandinavia and the Baltic with Constantinople and Baghdad.
Vikings
Boats that went across the Indian Ocean by the Abbasids
Daos
Original inhabitants of Islam that were nomads herding sheep
Bedouin
Outlined Muhammad’s teaching
Quran
Holy war
Jihad
1st Caliph of Islam
Abu Bakr
Capital of Islam in the Abbasids rule
Baghdad
Institution that arose as the successor to Muhammad’s leadership and became both the political and religious head of the Islamic community.
Caliphate
