East Asia
This is the country that was the dominant culture force in East Asia from 1200 - 1450.
What is China?
The Seljuk Empire of the Turks, Delhi sultunate in India, and Maluk sultanate of Egypt all focused on this religion.
What was Islam?
Religion that was dominant in Southern India and one way life there was affected.
What was Hinduism and the caste system structured social lives?
This was the empire that formed around the city of Tenochtitlan.
What was the Aztec Empire?
The name of the West African leader whose pilgrimage to Mecca was an important event.
Who was Mansa Musa?
The term for the political fragmentation in Europe in which local lords swore obedience to monarchs (and so on further down the line).
What is feudalism?
The religion that split into many branches across East Asia including, Theravada, Mahayana, Tibetan, and Zen.
What was Buddhism?
This is the group that often converted to Islam before the rest of a country.
What were merchants?
Three religions that dominated SE Asia were...
This was the purpose of human sacrifices in the Aztec Empire.
What was to appease their gods from ending the world?
This was the region of Africa that was organized into city-states that relied heavily on trade with the Indian Ocean trade network.
What was East Africa?
The way that the bubonic plague was spread throughout Europe (although they didn't know it at the time).
What were fleas on rats?
Explain 2 ways in which Confucianism was important to life in the Song Dynasty of China from 1200-1450.
What are...
1. Used in entrance exams for government jobs.
2. Used to create an ordered society (respect for parents and rulers)
3. Used to establish gender roles (women defer to men but are also provided for by them)
Describe what event led to the fragmentation of the Abbassid Caliphate (the main caliphate of early Dar al-Islam)
What is...
1. Different versions of Islam caused a rift.
2. The Mongols invaded Baghdad and destroyed the capital.
Nickname given to the period 1200-1450 in Southeast Asia since so many countries today are modeled after those countries.
What was the Period of Classical States?
What was...
Aztec - Chinampa
Inca - Terraces
This was often used to measure the wealth of leaders in Southern Africa in states like Great Zimbabwe.
What was cattle?
2 reasons that land was so valuable in Europe.
1. Agriculture was inefficient (little ice age)
2. Feudalism was based on land ownership.
3. Serfs came with the land.
Three ways that China innovated in economics from 1200-1450.
What were...
1. New technologies (like fireworks and rice farming)
2. New transportation (like the Silk Road and Grand Canal)
3. New trade (like textiles/silk and porcelain)
Describe 4 important intellectual/cultural advancements made during Dar al-Islam.
What are...
1. Preserving Greek/Roman wisdom
2. Houses of Wisdom in Baghdad and Timbuktu
3. Mathematics (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi)
4. Literature (Aishah al-Ba'uniyyah)
5. Trade and Travel Exchange (Ibn Battuta)
6. Medicine
Explain two ways in which the areas of South and Southeast Asia were diverse.
What were...
1. Politically (some empires, some kingdoms, some city-states)
2. Religiously (Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam)
3. Socially (some egalitarian, some heirarchies)
This was the name the Aztec Empire used to refer to itself and its people.
What were the Mexica?
This was the term we used for Africa's cultural ideals that we should trace ancestry through the female line.
What was matrilineality?
Term used in the reading for Europe's "step back" from the productivity and population growth during the 900-1300.
Devolved or devolution
Explain how/why Japan ended up as a feudal society.
What was a civil war took away the power from the Nakamura dynasty, leading to a period with powerful warlords and samurais?
List 3 of the 5 pillars of Islam and explain how 2 of them were historically important.
What were
1. Belief
2. Prayer
3. Fasting
4. Charity
5. Pilgrimage
Answers will vary...
Name 4 countries today that makeup SE Asia.
What are...
1. Burma/Thailand
2. Laos
3. Vietnam
4. Indonesia
5. Cambodia
These were the three reasons Jared Diamond gave for why the Inca and Aztec weren't able to fend of European conquest.
What were guns, germs, and steel?
This was the name of the Islamic scholar who traveled throughout Africa and Asia while writing about his journeys.
Who was Ibn Battutta?
The most powerful figure in all of Europe (since all European monarchs were Christian).
Who was the Pope?