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Nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian Peninsula.
What are Bedouin?
100
Triangular sails attached to the masts of dhows by long boooms
What are lateens?
100
Islamic Law.
What is Sharia law?
100
Religion adopted by Russian ruler Vladimir in the late 10th century.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
100
The name given to seafaring scandinavian raiders from the 8th to 11th centuries.
Who are the Vikings?
200
Leaders of tribes or clans in bedouin society.
What are shaykhs?
200
The third Abbasid Caliph
Who is al-Madhi
200
Agricultural kingdom centered on the lower Congo River in the late 15th century.
What is the Kongo?
200
The split between the Roman Catholic church and Eastern Orthodoxy.
What is the Schism?
200
Peasant laborers who worked on agricultural manors in return for limited protection in the middle ages.
Who are serfs?
300
Original home of Muhammad.
What is Mecca?
300
This dynasty invaded and captured Baghdad in the mid-10th century.
What is the Buyids?
300
Societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation.
What are stateless societites?
300
The group that took control over Constantinople in 1453.
Who are the the Turks?
300
War between England and France over French lands and feudal rights against nation states.
What is the Hundred Years War?
400
Tribe of bedouins that controlled Mecca in the 7th century.
What is Quraysh?
400
Series of military adventures originally launched by western Christian to free the holy land.
What are The Crusades?
400
The Arabic term for eastern north Africa.
What is Ifriqiya?
400
The city that was established in the 9th century and was the focal point of Russia during its flourishing 12th century.
What is Kiev?
400
14th century plague in Europe that reduced population significantly.
What is the Black/Bubonic Plague?
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