Unit 3 pt2 Flashcards
Harnessing method that increased the efficiency of horses by shifting the point of traction from the animals neck to the shoulders; it’s adoption favors the spread of horse drawn plows and vehicles
Horse collar
Dispute between the pipes and the Holly Roman Empire Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands
Investiture Controversy
very large flat bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang, Ming, and Song Empires, specially designed for long distance commercial travel
Junk
Korean kingdom founded in 918 and destroyed by Mongoul invasion in 1259
Koryo
One of the founders of the tang empire and it’s second Empire. He led the expansion of empire into central Asia
Li Shimin (599-649)
Type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal. It replaced woodblock printing, allowing for the arrangement of individual letters and other characters on a page, rather than requiring the carving of entire pages at a time. It may have been invented in Korea in the 13 century
Movable type
Term used to describe a new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts that became the basic ruling philosophy of China from the song period to the 20th century
Neo-Confucianism
The central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is the head
Papacy
The House of Seljuq was a Turkish Sunni Muslim dynasty that gradually adopted Persian culture and contributed to the Turko-Persian tradition in the medieval West and Central Asia.
Seljuk Turks
In medieval Europe, an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lords property and obligated to perform set services for the Lord. In Russia some serfs worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861
Serf