Fall Final Exam Vocabulary

2. a symbolic picture—especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone.
5. the doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternally saved.
8. an arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information.
9. a system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods.
13. respect shown by children for their parents and elders.
15. a document guaranteeing basic political rights in England, drawn up by nobles and approved by King John in 1215.

1. a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin.
3. the period from the mid-1200s to the mid-1300s when the Mongols imposed stability and law and order across much of Eurasia.
4. the everyday language of people in a region or country.
6. the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another,
7. a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land.
10. one of four classes of people in the social system of the Aryans who settled in India.
11. a deadly disease that spread across Asia and Europe in the mid-14th century, killing millions of people.
12. a period and prosperity throughout the Roman Empire, lasting from 27 BCE to 180 CE.
14. a pilgrimage to Mecca, performed as a duty by Muslims.