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| How often Muslims must pray |
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| A Thousand and One Nights |
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| Work of literature containing the characters Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba |
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| Venetian merchant who traveled to China and worked for Kublai Khan |
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| Title given the supreme general who ruled Japan |
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| Japanese landowning class |
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| Japanese warrior class similar to medieval European knights |
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| The code of behavior which guided the Samurai |
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| Brought the Byzantine Church to the Slavs |
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| "Apostles to the Slavs"; developed the Cyrillic alphabet so the Slavic people could read the Bible |
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| Title of Russian emperor from the Russian word for Caesar |
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| "Father of modern Russia"; Ran out the Mongols and proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome" |
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| Because they believe in God |
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| Reason Muslims call Christians "people of the book" |
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| "submission to the will of God" |
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| Collection of sacred hymns, prayers, an magic spells used by Aryans |
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| Rigid Aryan social classes etermined by birth |
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| meaning of the word savanna |
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| Aryan hero immortalized in "The Ramayana" |
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| Religion that offers reunion with "atman" or the "universal soul" as the ultimate reward |
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| the more common name for "maize" |
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| The Buddhist state of wanting nothing |
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| Religion which teaches, "Do nothing to change the way of nature" |
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| Rich, yellowish silt which comes from China's Yellow River |
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| Religion which taught that a ruler should have absolute power since people are easily swayed by greed or fear |
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| Religion which states that Nirvana can be reached by following the Middle Way |
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| Maurya ruler of India who taught nonviolence and converted to Buddhism |
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