Humanities

An elaborate ceremony where families displayed their rank and prosperity and gave food, drink, and gifts to the community

A political alliance among tribes in upper New York. Their goal was to promote joint defense and cooperation

The most famous of the books telling of Maya history, which recounts the Highland Maya's version of the story of creation

A symbolic picture; especially one used as part of a writing system for carving messages in stone

He was crowned emperor in 1502 of the Aztecs and the empire began to get weak

"The Feathered Serpent", a peace god of the Toltecs created by the ruler Topitzin

In the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year

A major city in northern Guatemala built by the Maya

A powerful and ambitious ruler who conquered all Peru and moved into neighbor lands in the Inca Empire

First major civilization of Central Mexico

French word for rebirth of the ancient culture and the revival of art and learning

Technique that renaissance painters used which shows 3D on a flat surface

The native or everyday language in a region

A pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

Renaissance intelectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

The doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand, including which people will be eternity saved

An imaginary land, or an ideal place

A 1555 agreement declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler

A meeting of Roman Catholic leaders, called by Pope Paul III to rule on doctrines criticized by the protestant reformers

A craftsman from Mainz who developed a printing press

A superb military leader who came to the throne in 1520, was called "the Lawgiver" and "the Magnificent." He had many cultural achievements

A part of a policy or system in which the Ottomans turned Christian boys into Islam to join the army

A rebellious warrior and conqueror from Samarikand who interrupted the expanison of the Ottoman Empire

A warrior for Islam

A member of an elite force of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire

An empire founded by Babur in India. Mughals or mongols were the people who lived there

The Great. He took the throne in 1587. He was the greatest ruler of the Mughal Empire, promoted progress and cultural blending

A Shi'ite Muslim dynasty that ruled in Persia between the 16th and 18th centuries

The most successful ghazi who built a small Muslim state in Anatolia, he had military success based on the use of gunpowder and cannons as weapons to attack

A 12 year old that began to seize most of what is now Iran and imposed Shi'a religion in the Safavid Empire