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Old World Empires of Asia and Africa Summerville High

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Mughal Dynasty   Muslim rulers of India, most showed religious tolerance toward their subjects  
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Akbar the Great   Golden age ruler of Mughal India. Honored for religious tolerance  
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caste system   Strict social structure of India. You are born into a caste (social ) and the only way to move up is to have good karma and dharma in this life time. When you die you can move up to the next caste. If you have bad karma/dharma you can move down.  
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Karma   What goes around comes around. If you do good, good comes back to you. Opposite is true too.  
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Dharma   your duty, or responsibilities based on your position in society.  
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reincarnation   The concept of being reborn into another life/body after death.  
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Siddhartha Gautama   founder of Buddhism, Buddha the enlightened one  
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Four Noble Truths   There is suffering; suffering is caused by desire; control desire to end suffering; do what is right to control desire  
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Eight Fold Path   Guide to living right; right speech, right concentration, right effort; etc  
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Nirvana   Escape from the cycle of reincarnation; goal of Buddhism  
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Marco Polo   Italian explorer who traveled to China in the 1200s. Europeans thought he was a liar when he told them how awesome and advanced China was.  
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Ming Dynasty   Ruling family of China from 1368-1644; during this time China reached a golden age, was self-sufficient and made luxury goods to sell to other countries.  
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Civil Service Exam   test started by the Chinese in order to limit corruption in government. Only people who pass the test could have government jobs.  
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Tribute system   Used to show dominance of one country over others. The smaller/weaker countries were required to give their best goods (including women) as gifts to the dominant country.  
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Admiral Zheng He   Chinese naval explorer who sailed to India, the Middle East and Africa from 1405-1423. The Chinese government stopped funding the voyages because they cost too much and no other country sold valuable things  
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Silk Road   network of roads that allowed trade to happen from China to the Black Sea.  
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Confucianism   based on 5 principle relationships; each person should act with respect and responsibility in a relationship  
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Daoism/Taoism   The way of nature or the universe/ go with the flow Lao Zi Founder  
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Mansa Musa   Leader of Mali; possibly the richest ruler in the world famous for his pilgrimage to Mecca where he spent so much gold it caused inflation the world market  
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Ibn Battuta   Muslim explorer who traveled from Africa to China and wrote a detailed description of his travels in the 1300s  
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Mehmed II   founder of the Ottoman Empire; conquered Constantinople in 1453  
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Janissaries   European Christian boys who were taken by the Ottoman Empire, castrated and turned into elite soldiers for the Ottoman sultans  
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Abraham   Founder of Judaism, world’s oldest monotheistic religion; his children would produce the line that led to Christianity through Jesus and Islam through Muhammad.  
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Muhammad   Muslims believe he is the last and greatest prophet of Allah, Founder of Islam  
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Jesus   Christians believe he is the son of God, Founder of Christianity; he dies so sins could be forgiven  
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