Europe I
This was the main religion of Europe, 1200-1450.
Catholicism
Term for the system of devolved powers and divided hierarchies? This is one of the defining features of medieval Europe and the Mediterranean world.
Feudalism
This is the collective name for the centers of trade along the Eastern coast of Africa?
Swahili City States
This was the Japanese term for the "way of the warrior," a celebration of Samurai and military virtues?
Bushido
This epidemic struck Europe in the 14th century (1340s/1350s) and left almost half of the continent's population dead?
Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
This describes how political power in Europe was given to local authorities rather than central authorities?
Devolved
This cosmopolitan city was a center of trading and learning in the Mali empire in West Africa?
Timbuktu
The majority of people in South Asia in the period 1200-1450 practiced this faith?
Hinduism
This was a period of warm, stable weather that allowed for easy farming, easy long-distance travel, and better general health?
Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA)
The majority of people in Europe (peasants) fell into this social class of laborers who rarely owned their own land?
Serfs
Called Al-Andalus by Muslims, this region sustained cross-cultural encounters by Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
Iberian Peninsula
Pastoralist Turkic peoples founded this Muslim-controlled state in the Northern portion of South Asia in the early 13th century.
Sultanate of Delhi
By the fifteenth century, Europe was firmly in the grasp of this...a long-term period of constantly cold, wet, and unstable weather?
Little Ice Age (LIA)
This is the name for the people who owned land in a village and leased parcels to smallholders?
Lords
This was the main religion of the Kievan Rus Empire?
Eastern (Greek) Orthodox Christianity
This was the SE Asian state that controlled the Strait of Malacca leading up to year 1200?
A type of farming in which people grow food for themselves or their local village rather than for sale on the open market?
Subsistence farming
The widespread pattern of rural life in the period 1200-1450 in Europe is called this by historians?
Manorial system
Exercising power in feudalism depended on this?
The use/threat of violence
This region was the heartland of the Ottoman Empire and now is the location of the country of Turkey?
Anatolia