Crisis in the Classical World
A period of 1,000 years
Millennium
The vast region made up of Africa, Europe, and Asia
Afro-Eurasia
What was Temujin role in the Mongol Empire?
The Khan
What was the name of the road in the network connecting Asia with Africa and the Mediterranean?
The Silk Road
The Majority of Muslims, known as what, accepted the Umayyad and Abbasid rulers.
The Sunni
The first empire to fall.
Han Empire
What religion did Orthodox Christianity split from?
Catholicism
What are some four factors that lead to Genghis's success?
1. Mongols were fierce warriors 2. Well trained and highly disciplined 3. Skilled military strategist 4. Very ruthless
What was the trade network called linking Africa's Mediterranean coast with the lands south of the Sahara Desert?
the trans-Saharan trade route.
Sufis
What factors played roles in the fall of the Han Empire.
Pressure from nomadic tribes from Central Asia
The Olmecs, Maya, Aztecs, and other people created powerful states with large cities and trade networks in what region?
Mesoamerica
In 1265 a huge network of exchange developed across the Mongols world and beyond. This huge network relied on what?
Pax Mongolica
Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam become known as what?
world religions
Known as "the House of Islam".
Dar al-Islam
Was brought along the Silk Road with trading, and caused a epidemic.
Smallpox
What empire had rulers called caliph.
Muslim Empire
What was also known as the black death
Bubonic plague
What group launched the Crusades in a effort to oust Muslims from the holy lands of the Eastern Mediterranean?
The Catholic church
After how long did it take for Xuanzang, a Chinese Buddhist, to returned to china
16 years
Why was autonomy spread around 320 C.E.
The fall of the Gupta Empire
What branch stayed loyal to Ali and his descendants.
Shi'a
What were three things that lead to the collapse of the Mongol Empire?
1. political disunity among the knanates 2. the tendency of the Mongols to adopt the customs and culture of the people they ruled. 3. The bubonic plague.
What was one important technology that spread widely at this time?
The camel saddle
Muslim scholars translated and preserved ancient Greek classics, including the writings of what two people