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| A person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs |
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| Sultan of Egypt and Syria, reconquered Jerusalem from the christians in 1187, defeated by Richard the Lionheart |
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| A high official in some muslim countries under ottoman rule |
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| the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of Eurasian territory (islamic world and China) |
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| a fourteenth century conqueror of western, south, and central asia, founder of the timurid empire and timurid dynasty. great great grandfather of babur |
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| Well educated people who are interested in liturature |
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| a movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism |
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| originally developed by the Yuan Dynasty, this structure consisted of a guard unit of 5600 men known as wei. each wei was divided into five "so" of 1,120 men each. the head of each wei reported directly to the ministry of war rather than to a local vivil administration. |
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| A movement of campaigns to purge alleged rightists within the communist party of China. Rightists were intellectuals who appeared to favor capitalism |
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| a system in which outsiders who wanted to trade with China had to make a formal request to do so |
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| embodied by the magazine "new youth", the New culture movement involved a wholesale questioning of Confucian values and chinese culture. Its leaders, Chen Duxiu and Hu Shih, were Western educated and well traveled. they advocated individualism and personal freedom |
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