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| Zheng He | chinese admiral that led seven expiditions to expand the ming dynasty. |
| Ottoman Empire | powerful turkish empire that lasted from conquest of constantinople to its peak under suleyman the magnificent. |
| Ming Dynasty | emperor Hongwu believed in an imperial central govt. little interest in scholarly matters wanted more confucian educational serviecs and systems. |
| Inca | powerful south american empire that put large emphasis on military and administrative elite.Large center at cusco |
| Aztecs | central american empire that had a reputation for making trouble by kidnapping women from nearby communities and seizing land already cultivated by others. |
| Toltecs | Migrated into central america at their capital tula, strong army that campaigned through mexico, civil conflict destroyed the toltec state. |
| Marco Polo | Best known long distance traveler of mongol times, traveled the whole mongol empire and was captured and his story was written by a listener of his tales. |
| Ibn Battuta | famous muslim traveler who was very large into legal matters, provided guidence in the ways of islam in societies recently converted. |
| Sultinate of Delhi | islam state established in northern india. |
| Tang Dynasty | Dynasty ruled mostly by tang taizong instituded three polices to help create a powerful and productive society. |
| Du Fu | considered chinas greates poet early years wrote about the beauty of the world the after an lushan rebbellion gave a bad perspective on the violence. |
| Song Dynasty | known for agricultural surplus. very wealthy and advanced.chinese dynasty that never built a powerful state, they mistrusted military leaders, and they placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education. |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | most celebrated woman of her day, and she used her influence to encourage the cultivation of good manners, refinement, and romantic love. |
| guilds | group working toward common goal |
| Heian period | japanese period, brilliant cultural era notble for the worlds first novel the tale of gengi |
| Kamakura era | era of many military advances and time of extensive militarism |
| Franks | Invaders, constructed a society that grew on agricultural resources, |
| charlemagne | Carolignian, that reestablished imperial rule in frankish society, carried white elephant, and also invaded rome |
| Mongols | loyal to kin groups, organized families, clans, and tribes. invaders from china that allied with turks |
| Genghis Khan | unifier of the mongols made many allies to conquer rivals. |
| Khulbilai khan | son of genghis that was a great conqueror in china, had interest in culture matters, extended mongol rule to all of china. |
| plague | epidemic disease that killed half or more of an exposed population. |
| Yuan dynasty | mongal dynasty in china that fell because of inflation. caused much violence that would eliminate the mongol regime. |
| Ottoman Empire | saljuq turks that declared independance from byzantines and gained much local support to overthrow the byzantines and capture constantinople. |
| Mansa Musa | king of mali, observed islamic tradition with a pilgrimmage, gave out so much gold price dropped 25 percent. wanted islam to have a place in west africa. |
| Swahili | means "coasters" those who traded along east african coast. It is a bantu language with words borrowed from arabic, possesed many prosperous trading items. |
| Zimbabwe | "dwelling of a chief", was a city of stone towers, palaces, and public buildings that served as the capital of a large kingdom. |
| Axum | african kingdom that adopted christianity and established a distinctive church that maintained relations with christians throughout the med. |
| Normans | descendants from the vikings. Had dukes that had complete authority and did what was in their interests. |
| franciscans | beggers who would have to beg for their food and other needs from audiences to whom they preached. |
| Byzantine empire | followed the roman empire, center at constantinople, most important military and political center and dominant economic and commercial center. |
| vassal | a knight who received a grant of land from a lord in exchange for a pledge of loyalty and services |
| fief | an estate that was owned, governed, and protected by a lord |
| Holy Roman Empire | successful empire that were great conqerors under otto 1 but empire fell because of internal destruction. |
| humanist | scholars interested in the liberal arts. |
| Investiture contest | conflict between kings and popes. |
