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Ap world
tartars
Mongols who conquered Russian cities during 13th century
Constantinople
Capital of the Byzantine empire
Orthodox christian church
Eastern church which was created in 1053 after the schism
manorialism
Economic and social system based on agriculture that defined relationships betweenland lords and people who worked for them
serfs
agrictulrual laborers who worked for the landowners in exchange for protection but could not leave farms and had fewer individual rights
Three field system
Practice of dividing land into Thirds,Rotating between two different crops and pasturage an improvement making use of manure
sufis
islamic mystic spread islam to many afro asian regions
sultan
means victorious came to designate muslim ruler
mali
state of the malinke people centered between senegal and nigeran rivers
Axum
develop in the Ethiopian highlands and traded with india and the Mediterranean areas to gain greek and arabian cultural influences
Songhay
successor state to mali dominated middle reaches of the niger vally
hausa
people of northern nigeria who formed states after songhay, combining muslim and pagan traditions
great zimbabwe
with massive stone building and walls incorporates the greatest early buildings in sub-Saharan africa