Spread of Islam
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all this type of religion
What are monotheistic?
This capital city during the Song dynasty was a center for textiles, restaurants and drug stores.
What is Kaifeng?
These storytellers served as historians who passed down oral traditions in sub-Saharan Africa
Who are griot?
What is the Silk Road?
The war fought between France and England over boundary disputes.
What is the Hundred Years War?
First caliph after Muhammad
Who is Abu Bakr?
This new class rose to power through passing a series of civil service exams
What are the scholar-gentry/jinshi?
These two civilizations remained Christian as Islam started to spread around them
What is Egypt and Ethiopia?
What are goods, ideas, languages and religions?
This empire held a lot of power over daily life in Medieval Europe
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
This early caliphate ruled in both the secular and religious realms.
Who is the Umayyad caliphate?
This belief system becomes popular under the Song dynasty
What is neo-Confucianism?
This empire thrived because of it's strategic position as a trading center (Timbuktu)
What is the Songhay Empire?
Genghis Khan use this system to promote people.
What is a merit system?
The two branches that the church split into during the Great Schism of 1054
What is the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
This language survived during the Abbasid Empire because of the Qu'ran.
What is Arabic?
This waterway was built to link Northern and Southern China during the Sui/Tang dynasties
What is the Grand Canal?
This historian and scholar traveled far and wide, writing detailed accounts of his time in places like Africa, China and Spain.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
The relationship between the Mongols and this group was extremely tense.
Who are Muslims?
New goods and ideas were exchanged with the Islamic world
What is an effect of the Crusades?
Muslim armies were hesitant to convert enemies because they were afraid they would do this.
What is share the booty/loot collected?
The Khitan peoples founded this dynasty in the North of China/Manchuria
What is the Liao Dynasty?
The fusing of two religions to create a unique set of beliefs that was common in Africa
What is syncretism?
The death of Timur allows for Turkish migration, and eventually the founding of this empire.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Vladmir I of Kiev converted to this religion in order to unite his people and create closer ties with the Byzantine Empire.
What is Christianity?