Medieval Times (600CE-1450CE)
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- Pope
- the bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome
- Viking/Norse
- Scandanavian marauders and traders who raided northern Eurpos between 700 and 1100CE
- Sunni/Shia
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Sunnis - came from the Umayyads
Shia revered the 4th Caliph Ali - Mesoamerica
- site of early American civilization from Mexico through Central America
- feudalism
- land-based heirarchical economy and political system where territory was granted in return for loyalty to a landed lord
- caste
- rigid social stratification where people were born into a certain class and remained in it for the rest of their lives
- peasant
- farm laborer making up a lower tier of feudal society
- Shogunate (bakufu)
- The rule of the Shogun, a samurai overlord in feudal Japan
- dynasty
- the multi-generational rule of one family over an empire or domain
- Umayidd
- set about establishing the cardinal tenets of Islam
- Abbasids
- continued spread of Islam and consolidated the empire with efficient regional government
- Tang Dynasty
- developed the equal-field system, institutionalized Buddhism, civic tests for bureaucrats based on Confucianism, extensive road and communication network
- Song Dynasty
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*Well connected trade society via the Silk Road
*developed the compass, water powered clock, gunpowder, printing press with movable type
*neo-Confucian thought - despotic leader
- A leader with absolute power; A person who wields power oppressively; a tyrant