Early Middle Ages (II)
He encouraged education in Europe by establishing schools and encouraging manuscript copying.
Charlemagne
The occupation of Zhang Qian.
diplomat
Cahokia, a settlement of Mississippian culture, included 120 of these – including one of the largest in the Americas.
mounds
Muslims are expected to do this five times per day.
pray
This mystical approach to Islam sought a close connection to Allah – sometimes through poetry and dance.
Sufis
They provide service to a lord in return for land to work and security.
serfs
Changan was the capital city built at the height of this dynasty.
Tang
This people spread from Alaska to the Arctic Islands between 1000 and 1500, using kayaks and dog-sleds.
This name for the leader of the Muslim community means “deputy”.
caliph
The Umayyads favored this language and culture.
Arab
In the 800s and 900s, while the Vikings threatened Europeans from the West, these horsemen threaten Europeans from the East.
Magyars
This ruling approach consisted of a softened legalism, Confucian ideals, and Daoist metaphysics.
Han Synthesis
He conquered the Inca in 1532, aided by civil war and disease.
Pizarro
According to the Koran, this should be defensive.
jihad
The ulama created this based upon Koran, hadith, precedent, and reason.
shar’ia law
List two characteristics of Dark Age Europe.
declining trade, declining literacy, secular control of clergy
According to the First Noble Truth of Buddhism, “all is ___________.”
This was one of the biggest achievements of Chavin Culture.
managing to feed itself
In Mohammed’s time this structure in Mecca housed idols, but it later became central to Muslim religious observance.
Ka’aba
This capital of the Abbasid caliphate housed more than one million people.
Baghdad
Charlemagne tried to standardize this by promoting the Benedictine Rule.
monasticism
Name of the founder of both the Mauryan Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty in India.
Chandragupta
They spread from New Guinea to the Pacific Islands, using double-hulled canoes and advanced navigation.
Lapita
The Umayyads began this form of succession in Islam.
dynastic/father-to-son
They succeeded in establishing kingdoms in the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 thanks to divisions among Muslims.
crusaders