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A system of knotted strings used by the Inca people for keepings records.
It is our only source of records of what happened in Incan history. |
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| Iroquois house about 150 to 200 feet long built of wooden poles covered with sheets of bark. |
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| A group of related families. |
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A circular tent made by stretching buffalo skins over wooden poles.
These were the homes of the Indians. |
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| A multistoried structure of the Anasazi civilization that could house up to 250 people. |
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| The name used for areas of Mexico and Central America that were civilized before the arrival of the Spanish. |
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A picture or symbol used in a hieroglyphic system of writing.
Many records of history are written in this language. |
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Goods or money paid by conquered peoples to their conquerors.
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| In China, a group of people who controlled much of the land and produced most of the candidates for the civil service. |
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A revised form of Confucianism that evolved as a response to Buddhism.
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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A Venetian traveler who lived from 1254 - 1324; wrote prolifically about his travels.
His account of his travels spurred the European quest for the riches of the East. |
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| The only female emperor in Chinese history; lived from 625 - 705; ruled during the Tang dynasty. |
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Japanese warriors similar to knights.
A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos. |
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| The strict code by which Japanese Samurai were supposed to live - similar to chivalry in Europe. |
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| A powerful military leader in Europe. |
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| Heads of noble families in Japan who controlled vast landed estates and relied on samurai for protection. |
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| A sect of Buddhism that became popular with Japanese aristocrats and became part of the samurai's code of behavior. |
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| The Japanese state religion dating from the 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power (kami) in both animate and inanimate things. |
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| A ceramic made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures. |
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