Wild Card
East Asia
Rise of Islam
West African Empires
Vocabulary
100

The first monotheist and shared prophet of all three religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism

Who is Abraham?

100
A time period during which one family rules
What is a dynasty?
100
Mecca
What is the birthplace of Islam?
100

The most valuable resource held by West African Empires AND the most valuable resource they traded for

What are gold and salt?

100
An oral historian
What is a griot?
200

The Eight-fold path

What is the path followed by Buddhists to reach enlightenment and end suffering?
200

The true military power in Japan, not the emperor.

Who is the shogun?

200
two Islamic Empires that spread from the Arabian Peninsula
What are the Abbasid and Umayyad Empires?
200

The religion that spread through trans-Saharan trade

What is Islam?

200
a Japanese warrior, bound to a code of honor
What is a samurai?
300

They founded Baghdad, invented Algebra, and fell to the Mongols in 1250.

Who are the Abbasids?
300
Silk Road
What is the trading route that connected China to the rest of Asia and Europe?
300
The five pillars of Islam
What are the hajj, faith, five prayers a day, fasting during Ramadan, charity?
300
Three major achievements of Mansa Musa.
What are the pilgrimmage to Mecca, his incredible wealth, developing Timbuktu as a trading outpost, expanding his empire, building mosques and universities, and giving away gold?
300

A religious, political, and military leader in Islam

What is a caliph?

400

The impact of Confucianism on the Chinese government

What is the civil service exam?

400
The belief that an emperor should not make too many laws to regulate his people.
What is Daoism?
400
Ways that Islamic Empires treated conquered people
What are paying taxes, making treaties, and taking over governments?
400
The religious differences between Sunni Ali and Askia Mohammed.
The true embrace of Islam (Askia) vs. the failure to show proper respect for Islam or label it the official religion (Sunni Ali).
400

A type of government where there are different levels and each has different responsibilities.

What is a bureaucracy?

500

Three ways that Mansa Musa's hajj affected Mali and the world 

What are...?

Mali: The spread of Islam, building mosques and schools, increasing its reputation, building Timbuktu as a trade hub

The world: inflation of gold in Egypt, increased reputation of Mali in the rest of the world, creating Mali as a target for invasion in the rest of the world

500
Order of classes in Japanese society
What are the peasants, samurai, daimyo, emperor, and shogun?
500
The difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims
What is the disagreement about how the successor should be? Descendant of Muhammad (Shia) vs. follower of Islam (Sunni)
500

The chronological order of West African empires and three similarities between them.

What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai? All trade based, All influenced by Islam, Same geographical area, Same resources, Same general political structure

500

The social and economic system which revolves around the ownership and use of land in exchange for service

What is feudalism?
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