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| Zimbabwe | stone house |
| monsoon | seasonal wind |
| slash-and-burn | form of agriculture; cut down trees and burn them |
| Cortez | Spanish leader who defeated the Aztecs |
| Pizarro | Spanish leader who defeated the Inca |
| Mansa Musa | Muslim king of Mali; took a hajj to Mecca |
| Timbuktu | city in Mali; center for education in West Africa |
| Swahili | culture and language; a mixture of Bantu and Arabic |
| samurai | Japanese warrior |
| Shinto | "Way of the Gods"; native Japanese religion |
| kami | gods in Shinto |
| nepotism | giving favor to relatives |
| meritocracy | hiring workers based on merit |
| aristocracy | class of wealthy nobles |
| pastoralist | person who herds domesticated animals |
| khan | Mongol ruler |
| Genghis Khan | absolute ruler of the Mongols |
| Kublai Khan | Mongol emperor of China |
| Pax Mongolia | Mongol Peace |
| shogun | Japanese military leader |
| Marco Polo | European trader who lived in the Yuan Court |
| daimyo | Japanese landowners |
| Allah | Muslim diety |
| caliph | successor, the leaders of the Muslim community after Muhammad |
| czar | "caesar" in Russian; title taken by king of Moscow |
| hijra | Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina |
| icon | image of religious figures or events |
| iconoclast | "icon smasher"; supported the Byzantine emperor's ban on icons |
| Islam | submission to the will of God |
| mosque | Islamic house of worship |
| Muslim | a person who practices Islam |
| patriarch | top religious figure in the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Qur'an | Islamic holy text |
| schism | a break or separation |
| Shi'a | branch of Islam; believed that only Muhammad's descendants should rule the Muslim Empire |
| Constantinople | capital of Byzantium |
| Baghdad | capital of the Muslim Abbasid empire |
| Hagia Sofia | Church of the Holy Wisdom; built by Justinian in Constantinople |
| Justinian | Byzantine emperor; restored empire, organzed Roman law |
| Theodora | Byzantine empress; wife of Justinian |
| Cyrillic | alphabet for Slavic languages; created by Orthodox monks |
| Athens | city state known for democracy |
| Sparta | city state known for military |
| Acropolis | high hill in a Gree city |
| Agora | gathering place |
| democracy | form of government where the people rule |
| Hellenistic | mixture of Greek, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian cultures |
| monarchy | form of government where a king or queen rules |
| Oligarchy | form of government where a small group of aristocrats govern |
| tyranny | form of government where one person seized power illegally |
| Pericles | Athens' leader during the Golden Age |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom and war, patron goddess of Athens |
| Zeus | King of the gods |
| Hera | Queen of the gods |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love and beauty |
| oracle | women through which the gods communicated; could tell the future |
| Minoans | peace-loving people who settled Crete |
| Mycenaens | first to settle the Greek mainland; may have destroyed the Minoans |
| chivalry | knights' code of honor |
| feudalism | exhchange of services for land |
| fief | land given to a vassal |
| guild | artisan association |
| knight | warrior; exchanged services for land |
| lay investiture | kings appoint Church officials |
| Magna Carta | "Great Charter"; signed by King John |
| serf | peasant; virtual prisoner of the land |
| vassal | knight or noble who has taken an oath of loyalty to a noble |
| William the Conqueror | Norman noble who conquered England |
| Henry II | English king; established common law |
| King John | English king forced to sign the Magna Carta |
| Ferdinand & Isabella | rulers of Spain; expelled Jews and Muslims |
| Philip II | king of Spain who ruled during Spain's Golden Age |
| Ivan the Great | first czar of Russia |
| caste | Hindu social class |
| dharma | sacred individual duty |
| karma | sum of all your good and bad actions |
| Brahman | Hindu supreme god |
| Untouchables | outside of the caste system; slaves, perform "unclean" tasks |
| Buddha | The "enlightened one" |
| Nirvana | Buddhist; Release from reincarnation |
| Siddhartha Gautama | became the Buddha |
| Four Noble Truths | basic beliefs of Buddhism |
| Ashoka | Mauryan king; converted to Buddhism |
| Gupta Empire | Indian Golden Age |
| Alphabet | form of writing; symbols represent sounds |
| City-state | city and surrounding farmlands with an independent gov't |
| Covenant | a binding agreement |
| Diaspora | occurs when Jews live outside of Israel |
| Dynasty | a series of rulers from the same family |
| Hieroglyphics | Egyptian writing system |
| Irrigation | man-made system to direct water to fields |
| Monotheism | belief in one god |
| Pharaoh | Egyptian king |
| Polytheism | belief in many gods |
| Ziggurat | Sumerian temple |
| Code of Hammurabi | Babylonian law code |
| Nebuchadnezzar | King of New Babylon; built the Hanging Gardens |
| Narmer/ Menes | 1st phraraoh of Egypt |
| Phoenicians | Traders from Canaan; invented 1st alphabet |
| Moses | Led the Israelites out of slavery |
| Abraham | Founding father of Judaism |
| Hebrew | Israelite written language |
| Cuneiform | Sumerian written language; 1st written language |
| The Exodus | Israelites escaped from slvaery in Egypt |
| Israelites | first group to be monotheistic |
| Yahweh | Name of Israelite god |
| The Exile | Isralites forced to leave Israel; enslaved in Babylon |
| Torah | Jewish holy book |
| Hatshepsut | Female pharaoh; expanded trade |
| Ramses the Great | Egypt's greatest builder |
| Akhenaton | Egyptian pharaoh; only worshipped Aton |
| Jerusalem | capital of Kingdom of Israel |
| Pax Romana | Roman Peace |
| Punic Wars | Series of wars fought with Carthage |
| indemnity | war fine |
| patricians | wealthy aristocrats |
| plebeians | lower class; 95% of the population |
| republic | form of democracy where the people elect representatives |
| Hannibal | Carthaginian general |
| Etruscans | Group who conquered Rome in 620 BCE |
| Romulus | mythic founder of Rome |
| 12 Tables | Roman law code |
| Carthage | city-state in North Africa |
| Julius Caesar | dictator of Rome; killed by fellow Senators |
| Octavian/ Augustus | Caesar's nephew; first emperor of Rome |
| Jesus | Jewish teacher crucified by the Romans |
| Paul | important Christian missionary |
