History Semester 1-Terms
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- polytheism
- belief in many gods
- democracy
- government controlled by citizens either directly or by reprentatives
- counter reformation
- response to reformation
- jihad
- a muslim leader, referred to the inner struggle against evil.
- legalism
- chinese philosophy saying that a powerful government was the way to peace
- barter
- exchange work and goods
- monotheism
- belief in one god
- dynastic cycle
- pattern of rise, fall, and replacement of dynasties
- parliament
- created this system to protect bishops, nobles, and commoners, and to let the be apart of the law
- huguenots
- calvins followers in france
- battle of hastings
- battle that changed eng. history, normans took over 1/5 of england
- partician
- wealthy landowner, social class of rome
- shi'a and sunni muslims
- the two branches of islam
- plebian
- commoners, social class of rome
- feudal system
- system of loyalties in which nobles and lords are granted land
- africas conversion to islam
- islam spread thru north africa, ghana converted
- muslim calender
- starts when muhammad went to medina
- sunna
- the model for living a proper muslim life
- aristocracy
- government in which the power is in hands of a hereditary ruling class