Patterns Final:Terms
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- heresy
- opinion that conflicts with official church beliefs
- excommunication
- official edict that bars a person from church membership
- boyars
- nobles who advised the prince in each Kievan city
- bedouins
- nomadic arab herders for sheep and camel
- hijrah
- migration of Muhammad and his followers in 622. first year in the calendar
- jihad
- teaching of Islam to defend the faith
- mosques
- muslim places of worship
- Qur' an
- holy book of Islam
- caliph
- "successor to the Prophet" used in Islamic society
- imams
- spiritual leaders (decendants of Muhammad)
- astrolabe
- instument used to calculate latitude by looking at the stars*
- compass
- navigational instrument uses magnetized metal points north...duh.
- zen
- sect of Buddhism that stresses meditation as a form of enlightenment
- medieval period
- period of western European history a.k.a.: Middle Ages
- feudalism
- political system that grants land in exchange for military assisstance and loyalty
- manorialism
- economic system of the Middle Ages where there was self-sufficient farming and lords and peasants shared land
- primogeniture
- system of inheritance from father to eldest son for land
- serfs
- peasants who were bound to the land where they worked for a lord
- heretic
- people who denied truth of church principals (had beliefs not approved by the church)
- common law
- law based on customs/judges decisions rather than written codes
- domestic system
- method of production that takes place in the workers home rather than in a shop or factory
- capital
- wealth that is earned/saved/invested to make profit
- market economy
- economy in which land/labor/capital are controlled by individuals
- merchant guild
- association of merchants/workers created to protect rights to trade/help family members
- middle class
- skilled workers between the upper and lower class
- apprentice
- one who learns a skill under a master
- standard of living
- measure of the quality of life
- philosophes
- thinkers during the enlightenment
- mercantilism
- economic theory fixed amount of wealth stealing is necessary to get wealthier
- humanism
- study of humanities grammar, history, poetry, rhetoric