Terms 0.2
The ruler of a Muslim country
What is a Sultan?
A mix of the Bantu language with Arabic words
What is Swahili?
The spread of cultural practices, beliefs, and/or items
What is Cultural diffusion?
The belief in a supernatural that organizes and animates the universe
What is Animism?
Peasants linked with land in medieval Europe times, treated as part of the land worked on and went along with the land if sold.
What are Serfs?
A religious law for Muslims
What is Sharia law?
Decent through the mother's side or maternal side
What is Matrilineal?
The blending of different forms of beliefs or practices
What is Syncretism?
A system of society or government in which the males are the head and the next head goes down the line of decent of males.
What is Patriarchy?
A social system/structure in medieval Europe where people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return.
What is Feudalism
Early maturing and drought resistant crop
What is Champa rice?
A person who practices Sufism: a mystical branch of Islam.
What is a Sufi?
The compressing of the feet of girls with tight bandages
What is Foot Binding?
Empires that utilized gunpowder technology and innovative artillery
What are Gunpowder Empires?
A way of life centered on human interests and human values.
What is Humanism?
When both genders of society have separately defined activities with some overlapping activities as well.
What is Gender Parallelism?
A major type of Confucianism blended with doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
A sea based empire.
What is a Maritime Empire?
A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
What is a Conquistador?
A high class member in Russia, next rank to a prince.
What is a Boyar?
Political, economic, and social system where serfs/peasants rendered dependent on their land and on their lord.
What is Manorialism?
Confucian virtue of honoring elders in one's family
What is Filial Piety?
A triangular sail that was significant for navigation in the medieval times.
What is the Lateen Sail?
Social and racial categories used in colonial Latin America to describe people of color and lower social status.
What is Castas?
A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time, usually without pay but in exchange for free passage to a new country.
What is an Indentured Servant?