Week 2 Vocabulary, Due 8/25

Song Dynasty

Emperor

Civil Service Exam

Guild

Compass

Gunpowder

Silk

Syncretic (Syncretism)

Monastery

Footbinding

Tribute

Origins of Islam

Islam

Muhammad

Mecca

Quran/Koran

Hadith

Ummah

Hajj

The Abbasid Caliphate

Caliph

Shia

Sunni

Dhimmi

Jizya

Abbasid

Qadi

Vizier

Madrasa

House of Wisdom

The Dar Al-Islam after the Abbasids

Dar al-Islam

Sultan