Unit 3 vocab

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  1. 3. A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans
  2. 8. Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. Lasted from 962 to 1806
  3. 9. Arab prophet; founder of religion of Islam.
  4. 10. Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad.
  5. 12. In medieval Europe, an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord.
  6. 14. Muslims belonging to branch of Islam believing that the community should select its own leadership. The majority religion in most Islamic countries.
  7. 16. Book composed of divine revelations made to the Prophet Muhammad between ca. 610 and his death in 632; the sacred text of the religion of Islam.
  8. 17. City in western Arabia; birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, and ritual center of the Islamic religion.
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  1. 1. Journey to a sacred shrine by Christians seeking to show their piety, fulfill vows, or gain absolution for sins.
  2. 2. Empire in southern China while the Jin people controlled the north. Distinguished for its advances in technology, medicine, astronomy, and mathematics.
  3. 4. Office established in succession to the Prophet Muhammad, to rule the Islamic empire; also the name of that empire.
  4. 5. Religion expounded by the Prophet Muhammad on the basis of his reception of divine revelations, which were collected after his death into the Quran.
  5. 6. Armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land by Christians determined to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule.
  6. 7. Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire.
  7. 9. Literally "middle age," a term that historians of Europe use for the period ca. 500 to ca. 1500
  8. 11. Also known as Mexica, they created a powerful empire in central Mexico.
  9. 13. A very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang, Ming, and Song Empires
  10. 15. A formal split within a religious community