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| Chinese dynasty from 960-1279. |
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| Italian adventurer who travelled to China and lived amongst the Mongol Yuan dynasty for years. |
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| Grasslands that Mongols kept and raised their livestock. |
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| Mongol felt dwellings- easy to pack up and move. |
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| Birth name of Chingis Khan, who created the largest land empire in world history. |
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| The capital of the Mongols Empire. |
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| A Mongol fighting group of 10,000 men. |
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| Grandson of Gengis Khan who ended Muslim “Golden Age” |
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| 1200’s- 1300’s the Mongol peace- time of trade and prosperity |
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| Mongol Dynasty in China from 1271-1368. |
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| Brutal Turko-Mongolian warlord conquering the area from India to Moscow. |
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| Middle Ages farmers- bound to the land- almost slaves. |
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| the part of the agricultural land that belonged to the lord directly. |
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| an association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town. |
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| In medieval Europe, a person, usually a noble, who owed feudal duties to a superior called a Suzerain. |
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| royal documents that granted nobles or their ancestors the status of noble and certain privileges that went with their status. |
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| large area of land owned by a lord given to vassals for service. |
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| the rules of conduct given to his monastic followers by the sixth-century Christian saint Benedict. |
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| Medieval European wars waged principally to recover the Holy Lands from Muslim control beginning in 1096. |
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| Wrote Canterbury Tales, this was the first important work in English. |
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| An epidemic of bubonic plague that ravaged most of Europe in the mid-fourteenth century. |
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| War between the nobles and kings of France and England (1337-1453). This led to the development of parliament for both countries. |
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| Peasant girl who led the French armies to victory in the 100 years war. |
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| A complete census of landholdings in England ordained by William the Conqueror. |
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| religious leader who who led a revolt in England- believed that religious services should be done in native languages. |
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| A dispute between the Holy Roman Emperor and the pope in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries about which authority should appoint German bishops. |
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| native Japanese religion- “The Way of the Gods”- some what like Daoism- Simple Animism: all kinds of nature objects have a spirit. |
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| Greatest leader of the Yamato Period: 400-700 c.e. - devout Buddhist- created the “Seventeen Point Constitution”- founding document of the Japanese State. |
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| form of government in which the Shogun- commander and chief of the imperial army ruled, and the emperor is a figurehead. |
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| : from 1185-1333- period of Japanese feudalism. Breakdown of central authority with powerful landowners and their samurai controlling large areas of Japan. |
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