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Unit Two Test Flashcards

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Hijra

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Fleeing from Mecca to medina of Muhammad and followers due to persecution

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Decline of Umayyad Caliphate

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  • wealthy life of elites

- Arab soldiers tired of being posted on frontier

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Decline of Abbasid Caliphate

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  • Mongol invaders
  • salve rebellion from mamluks
  • Fatimids break away
  • empire to vast (info took too long to travel)
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Mamluks

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  • Turkish slaves
  • developed as standing army in Islamic empires
  • effective but expensive
  • tried to unseat caliphs
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Islamic Spain

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  • developed distinctive Islamic culture

- blended Roman, Germanic, and Jewish traditions with Arabs and Berbers

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Ulama

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Religious leaders

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Sharia

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Law of Islam, foundation of Islamic civilization

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Muslim women’s status

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  • more rights than Christian and Jewish

- could go on pilgrimage

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Hagia Sophia

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  • built by Justinian

- taken over by Arab invaders, turned into mosque

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The Carolingian empire

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  • military effectiveness
  • Charlemagne
  • treaty of verdun, split into 3 parts
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Papacy

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  • the office of the pope
  • nepotism (preferring ones close kin)
  • simony (selling ecclesiastical appointments)
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Canon laws

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Law of church

-pope Gregory VII

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Investiture controversy

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Popes vs kings and emperors

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Monasticism

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  • living in religious community outside of secular society

- nuns and monks

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Varangians

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-Swedish Vikings

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Vladimir I

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  • Kiev
  • married Byzantine
  • rejected Islam because of ban of alcohol
  • rejected Judaism because a true God wouldn’t let Jewish kingdom be destroyed
  • orthodox Christianity
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Venice

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-dominant sea power in the Adriatic

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Battle of manzikert

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Seljuk army defeated Byzantine emperor

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Pope urban II

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-called for crusade

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Eleanor of Acquitane

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-maintained own court

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Procopius

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-wrote harsh history of Justinian’s reign

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Anna Commena

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-first European woman to be considered a historian

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Li yuan

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First emperor of tang

  • promoted trade
  • unified China
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Mahayana Buddhism

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  • Tang Dynasty

- invigorated travel, language learning, cultural exchange

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Tributary system

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-Korea and Vietnam sent embassies to capital to pay tribute

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Empress Wu Zhao

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  • Buddhism attacked for encouraging women in politics

- shows patriarchal views

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Lushan Rebellion

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  • Tang Dynasty

- rebellion lasted 8 years

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Zhu Xi

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  • most important early neo-Confucian thinker

- moral and social responsibility

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Status of women in Song Dynasty

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  • foot binding
  • social restriction
  • girls educated enough to read simplified versions of Confucian philosophy
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Teotihucacan

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  • worshipped many gods
  • human sacrifice
  • chinampas
  • absence of walls=peace?
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Maya

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  • impressive religious temples and created rituals
  • calendars
  • concept of zero
  • women had important political and religious roles
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Aztecs

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  • twin capitals tenochtitlan and tlatoani
  • monarcical system
  • women held in high esteem
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Korea

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  • shamanism (belief in ability to contact ancestors and invisible spirit world)
  • horse breeding
  • Confucianism and Buddhism
  • tributary state
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Japan

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  • not plagued t constant warfare

- tale of genji written by murasaki Shikibu says women should have general knowledge of several subjects

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Vietnam

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  • champa rice
  • trung sisters led local farmers in resistance against Han empire
  • tributary state
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Srivijaya

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-dominated new trade route

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Inca

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  • capital city Cuzco
  • laid in shape of a puma
  • used quipus
  • more centralized
38
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Ka’ba

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A cubical shrines with idols inside, at pilgrimage center

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