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Confucianism

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philosophical belief system that emphasized: Patriarchy, Filial Piety, education

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Patriarchy

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male leadership and respect

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Filial Piety

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respect for elders

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Imperial Bureaucracy

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appointed officials enforced/carried out the policies of the empire

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Civil service exam

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Confucian style government exam required to pass to gain offiice

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Champa rice

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fast ripening, drought resistant rice from vietnam that grew the population (change)

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Grand Canal

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man-made water system that connected parts of China (Continuity)

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Silk Road

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Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.

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Zen Buddhism

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Buddhism that adapted a doaist principle: meditation

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Neo-Confucianism

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combinatioon of buddhism and confucianism

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Foot binding

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upper class women did to show submission and wealth

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China’s impact on Korea

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Korea paid tribute to chinese emporer
traded luxery items with china
Decreased womens rights by practicing confucianism

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China’s impact on Japan

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Japan chose what was borrowed from china due to sea of Japan
Japanese aristocrat made missions to china to learn culture
encouraged confuciaism and buddhism
adopted chinese court, calender, taxes, law, and gov mimistries
women escaped confuscian principles had freedoms

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China’s impact on Vietnam

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culture borrow from china
adopted confucianism, doaism, exam system, and art styles
women in vietnam had more rights
femaile dieties
had theur own writing sytstem and language

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Abbasid Caliphate

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Muslim empire that stretched from Egypt to border of India

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Seljuk Empire

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Seljuks: nomadic muslims from central asia who conqured arabian penisula from abbasid

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Mamluk Empire

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Mamluks: enslaved soilders who were buerocrats and violently overthrew the Abbasid caliphate
grew strong by trading cotton between ilsamic world and europe

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Sharia law

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a code for living that all Muslims should adhere to, including prayers, fasting and donations to the poor.

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Madrassas

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islamic universities

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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

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Muslim scholar who pioneered trigonometry and charted panetary movement

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House of Wisdom

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center of Muslim learning in Baghdad

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Islam and the rights of women

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in spirtual life men and women were eqaul but in social life women were seen as inferior and subordinate
Female infanticide was forbidden
could control property and doweries, and inheritance rights
divorce was possible
could not have multiple husbands
sufi practices gave greater roles for women

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hadiths

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traditions based on the sayings of mohammad

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Al-Andalus

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muslim controlled spain(warefare)

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what caused the spread of islam across Africa and the MIddle East
warefare, trade, and sufis
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Muslim, Indian, and Chinese knowledge spread through...
Al-Andalus
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Therevada buddhism
strict personal adherence to the eight fold path to enter nirvana
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Mahayana Buddhism
Focuses less on personal works and more on the grace of bodhisattvas, spiritual guides, help believer reach nirvana
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Bhakti Movement (Hinduism)
emphasized the importance of emotion rather than studying hindu texts, devotion to an indivisual diety, did not discriminate against women or people in a low caste
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Hinduism
worships Brahama, pratices Dharma: religios duties, gets Karma in reward, samsura is the re-birth cycle that requires a certain amount of karma to escape, mokasha is the end goal to escape cycle of rebirth and become one with Brahama
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Caste system
four-leveled rigid social structure of hinduism based on level of karma, professionor tradw with little ability for social movement
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Qutub Minar
an elaborate mosque on top of a hindu temple that represent a blend of hindu and muslim architechture
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Vijayanagara Empire
"victorious city" that relied on hinudism and indian ocean trade to maintain power
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Rajput KIngdoms
Small hindu kingdoms that often wared with one another, no centalized power, leaving them exposed for muslim attack
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Delhi Sultanate
Muslim kingdom the conqured most of Northern India, imposed Jizya (tax) on non-muslims
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Islam entered india by...
military conflict
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what lead many hindus and buddhist to convert to islam
low caste hindus coverted due to the equality they would have, buddhist coverted due to corruption in their leaders
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Southeast asian kingdoms were influenced by...
indian cultural traditions
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Srivijaya empire
hindu kingdom that had a strong navy and charged taxes on passing ships
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Majapahit Kingdom
Buddhist kingdom based on Java(king/budda worship) that earned money by controlling sea trade
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Angkor wat
a hindu and buddhist temple in the Khmer kingdom that showed off power
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mississippian culture
agriculture based society that built giant earth mounds
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mississippian social structure
1. chief called "Great Sun" ruled each town | 2. priests, nobels, and peasants
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matrilineal society
social standing was based on the mother
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decline of mississipian culture
flooding or weather extremes that caused crop failure or disease
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chaco canyon
(innovation) people built large houses using only stone and clay
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Mesa Verda
(Innovation) built multi story homes into the sides of clifs for protection using sandstone bricks
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decline of Chaco canyon and Mesa Verde...
maybe do to drought of dry climate
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Maya city states
(southern mexico) divided into city states and ruled by a king operating independantly, fought against eachother, paid taxes in the form of crops, kings claimed to be decendants of the gods
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mayan religion and innovation
worship sun, rain, and corn dieties by offering human sacrafices human sacrafices also showed power of gov
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Mayan calender
accurate calender based on stars and use zero in their number system
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mayan decline
environmental degradation or shifting trade routes
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Aztec empire (central mexico)
tenochtitlan was the capital located in the center of lake texcoco for protection
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theocracy
ruled by a religios leader who was the emporer and religious leader
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Aztec empire had semi central control and city state were grouped into...
provinces
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Aztec religion
polytheistic: conquered people were sacraficed to gods
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Aztec women
women could be priestesses. midwives, and healers
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Chinampas
floating gardens built to increase farmland
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aztec decline
lack of tech made farming difficult | human sacrafices create resentment which turned into rebellion
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Inca empire
mountainous empire located in peru
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inca gov
pachacuti: tribal leader who conqured other tribes centralized gov split into four imperial provinces each with a govener conqured tribes had mandatory public servive or mit'a system state owned all land and resources
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quipos
knotted cords to keep written records
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carpa nan
25,000 mile road and bridge system that ran through the empire and helped maintain control
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terraced farming
allowed farming to occur of mountain sides
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inca religion
worshipped the sun god Inti and created elaborate temples
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gender parallelism
women and men operated in separate but equal spheres (male and female priests and dieties) But men occupied top gov and religious positions
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inca decline
defeated by the spanish conquistador franscisco pizarro
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Sub-Saharan Africa
heavily shaped by the migration of Bantu people
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Sub-Saharan African gov
Decentralized power structure based on kinship ties, where families govern themselves Chiefs, commonly males, governed groups of families as population grew kinship was replaced by larger kingdoms
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Hausa Kingdoms
loose collection of states based on kinship ties stregthened by trading good native to their region benefitted from trans-Saharan trade routes
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Ghana gov
muslim rulers traded gold and ivory to muslim traders for salt king ruled centalized gov w help ofnobels and army who had iron weapons
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Ghana decline
wars with neighboring states weakend ghana
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Mali
developed in ghanas territory
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Mali gov
muslim king Sundiata grew strong through gold trade | kingdom was closly tied with islam
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Mali decline
trade routes shifted away from mali
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Zimbabwe gov and economy
chiefs built zimbabwes/dwellings out of stone to show power grew strong with gold feilds and taxing trade traded with indian ocean and coastal cities
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zimbabwe language
created new language called swahili which is a blend of arabic and bantu
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Zimbabwe decline
overgrazing caused crop failure making people move
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Ethiopia
Christian kingdom of Africa
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Ethiopia gov and econ
rulers showed power by building 11 giant churches made of rock saparated from rome and mde a unique form of christianity participated twards east african slave trade home of coffee bean
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Indian ocean slave trade
prisoners of war, debtors and criminals sent to india and arabia from africa, slave ownership was a status symbol, slaves worked shipyards or sugar plantations in the middle east
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Griots
storytellers who preserve history
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impacts of the crusades
popes power grows demand for asian luxeery goods simulated trade muslim scholarship and greek learning enter europe rift between eastern orthodox and roman catholic church
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black death
killed 1/3 of europe | low supply of peasants allowed them to negotiate for more money and greater rights
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little ice age
less food slowed growth and trade
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rise of states like england and france
black death and little ice ags weakend feudal lords

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