East Asia
Quick-maturing agricultural development that can allow two harvests in one growing season; led to increased populations in Song Dynasty China.
What is Champa Rice?
The founder of Islam
Who is Muhammad?
Long distance, long established trade in dhows and sailboats made this an important zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Swahili City-States in the West.
What is Indian Ocean Trade Network?
Payments made to the Aztecs by conquered nations
What is Tribute?
The richest man that ever lived was the leader of this West African nation.
What is Mali?
Common bodily practice among aristocratic females to signify social status; it restricted their ability to participate in the public sphere
What is Foot binding?
These were hired mercenaries from Central Asia that eventually took over Arab-controlled territories in Dar-al Islam and South Asia
Who are Turks?
This moumental architecture of the Khmer Empire used as a Buddhist and then Hindu temple
What is Angkor Wat?
The Maya often accepted people as tribute to be used in their religious ceremonies, with the captives acting in this role
What is Human Sacrifice?
These East African peoples were connected to the Indian Ocean Trade and converted to Islam.
What is Swahili City-States (also accept their major city, Kilwa)?
The 1,100-mile waterway linking the North and South of China. Its revival helped lead to the commercialization of Song China
What is Grand Canal?
Large Islamic-based library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus on translation of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Preserved knowledge.
What is House of Wisdom?
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Expanded and contracted over the years, but never successfully converted the local populations to Islam.
What is Delhi Sultanate?
An economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced; men and women were expected to contribute this labor to the state yearly
What is Mit'a System?
What group is most responsible for the spread of Islam in Africa?
What are Muslim merchants?
Bureaucrats needed to pass this to serve the imperial government
What is Civil Service Exam?
This European country had a large Muslim population until around the 1400s
What is Spain?
A hierarchical system along which many South Asians structured society
What is Caste System?
Floating gardens constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs to increase agricultural yields.
What is Chinampas?
Christian-led kingdom emerged here in the 12th century
What is Ethiopia?
Confucian idea that it is the duty of family members to subordinate themselves to the male head of the family and to their ruler
What is Filial piety?
An Islamic mystical tradition that desired a personal union with God--dedicating themselves to fasting, prayer, meditation on the Qur'an, and the avoidance of sin
What is Sufism?
An immensely popular development in Hinduism, advocating intense devotion toward a particular deity.
What is Bhakti Movement?
The system of knotted strings used to record Incan information
What is Quipu?
A powerful state in the African interior that traded with the Swahili city-states (especially Kilwa) and was known for its stone enclosures.
What is Great Zimbabwe?