Europe I
This was the main religion of Western 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
Define how technological transfer worked in the period 1200-1450? Where were the most technologically developed locations?
China and the Islamic world were technologically developed. These innovations reached Western Europe through trade, travel, etc.
This epidemic struck Europe in the 14th century (1340s/1350s) and left almost half of the continent's population dead?
Black Death (Bubonic Plague)
Western Europe's governing structure in the period 1200-1450 can be defined as this? It means that there lacked a cohesive or otherwise single center of authority on the continent?
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
Which empire conquered Constantinople in 1453?
Ottoman Empire
This agricultural innovation included keeping a portion of one's fields fallow so that the nutrients in the soil have time to replenish?
Three-field farming / Three crop rotation
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
Which empire lost Constantinople and thus came to an end in 1453?
Byzantine Empire
This is the name for the alphabet/script used in the Rus Empire (and Russia today)?
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?
This is the term for the amalgamation of different cultures/ideas that ultimately lead to a creation of a new (but similar) culture/idea?
Syncretism
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
The House of Wisdom was located in this city? You must also know which country this city is in today.
Baghdad, Iraq