Religion & Belief Systems
This Confucian value requires people to honor and respect their parents and elders.
What is filial piety?
Islamic law that combined religious teachings with political authority
What was sharia law?
This Chinese dynasty began when Han Chinese forces overthrew the Mongol-led Dynasty.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
This medieval economic system centered on self-sufficient agricultural estates
What was the manor system?
This intellectual movement emphasized an individual’s potential, education, and achievement.
What was humanism?
This term describes the territories where Muslims can worship peacefully.
What is Dar al-Islam?
The ethnic group who ruled the Ottoman Empire
Who were the Turks?
This precious metal was required for paying taxes under both the Ming and Qing dynasties.
What is silver?
This Church punishment cut people off from the sacraments and was believed to threaten their salvation.
What was excommunication?
This invention allowed Protestant reformers to spread their ideas quickly to a wide audience.
What was the printing press?
An unjust ruler could lose the natural order's approval, making rebellion and a new dynasty legitimate.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Unlike the Sunni Ottoman Empire, the Safavid Empire followed this branch of Islam.
What was Shi’a Islam?
These kinds of states showed their submission to the Chinese emperor by giving gifts and performing the kowtow.
What were tributary states?
Under this medieval political and social system, land was exchanged for loyalty and military service.
What was feudalism?
French Protestants who followed Calvin’s teachings were known by this name.
Who were Huguenots?
This concept represents the balance between complementary opposites
What is yin and yang?
This Mogul emperor ended the jizya and allowed Hindus to serve in government.
Who was Akbar?
Powerful Japanese landowners who controlled large estates
Who were daimyo?
The shortage of workers caused by this deadly 14th-century disease helped weaken European feudalism.
What was the Black Death?
He started the Anglican Church.
Who was King Henry VIII?
This hierarchy describes the social structure of Hinduism.
This Mogul emperor who imposed stricter Islamic policies
Who was Aurangzeb?
Despite their wealth, members of this class held the lowest position in Tokugawa society because they profited from the labor of others.
Who were merchants?
A series of wars between Christians and Muslims over the Holy Land.
What were the Crusades?
This decree ended the French Wars of Religion and granted important rights to Protestants in France.
What was the Edict of Nantes?