AP World History Vocab 2.2 – Flashcards

Turkic military slaves who formed part of the army of Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries; they founded their own state in Egypt and Syria from the thirteenth to early sixteenth centuries

Pertaining to the middle ages of European History

The name given to themselves by the Aztecs

The period of European History traditionally given as 500-1500

A tower attached to a mosque from which the Muslims are called to worship.

Were a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) mound-building Native American culture that flourished from approximately 800 to 1500 A.D., varying regionally

A labor system used by Andean societies in which community members shared work owed to rulers and the religious community

A form of plow consisting of a plowshare (blade) and hitch attached to livestock. It turns the soil in one run across the field, depositing the weeds and remains of the previous crop under the soil and raising the rain-percolated nutrients back to the surface. This plow also allowed for plowing while ground was wet

In North American archaeology, name given to those people who built mounds in a large area from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mts. The greatest concentration of mounds are found in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys

A Philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism

In Incan society, descendent through both the mother and father

A representative assembly

A term applied by Islamic governments to Muslims, Christians, and Jews in reference to the face that all three religions had a Holy Book

Andean society also known as the Incas

A system of knotted cords of different sizes and colors used by the Incas for keeping records

The holy book of Islam

The holy month of Islam which commemorates the “appearance” of the angel Gabriel to Muhammad; fasting is required during this month

The Chinese class of well educated men from whom many bureaucrats were chosen

The Japanese formal language term for ritual suicide. Hara-kiri is the common language term, which literly means “stomach cutting”, is a particuallly painful method of self-destruction. Only the samurai class was allowed to commit seppuku

A peasant who is bound to the land he or she works

The body of law that governs Muslim society

The traditional Japanese religion based on veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature

The Branch of Islam that holds that the leader of Islam must be a descendant of Muhammad’s family

Japanese military leaders under bakufu

The rule of the shoguns in Japan

The Muslims who attempt to reach Allah through mysticism

An Islamic Ruler

The branch of Islam that believes that the Muslim community should elect its leaders; the Sunnis are the largest branch of Islam

An ancient Shinto ritual still preformed in the traditional Japanese capital of Kyoto

The payment of Tax in the form of goods and labor by subject peoples

Ancient civilization of Mexico. The name in Nahuatl means “Master Builders”. The Toltec formed a warrior aristocracy that gained ascendancy in the Valley of Mexico c. A.D. 900 after the fall of Teotihucan

The community of Muslim believers

In medieval Europe, a person who pledged military of other service to a lord in exchange for a gift of land or other privileges

Religious tax, one of the five basic requirements (arkarn or Pillars) of Islam. All adult Muslims of sound mind and body with a set level of income and assets are expected to pay zakat