The Silk Road
Buddhism
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Silk Roads?
Pax Mongolica
What historical phrase refers to the era of Mongolian peace, a time when world trade was flourishing?
Islamic Scholars
Scholars from this religion played a major role in preserving and spreading mathematical and scientific knowledge.
Chinampas
Floating gardens constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs to increase agricultural yields.
Gold, Salt, and Ivory
What are natural resources that allowed Africa to prosper during the period 1200 to 1450?
Europe and China
What places were at the TWO ends of the Silk Roads?
Toleration
How did the Mongols treat the religions of the people they conquered?
Diaspora
A dispersion of people from their homeland. It was mostly merchant communities of Muslims in India and Southeast Asia. Later Muslims and Jews would be expelled from Spain in the Reconquista.
Inca
Means "people of the sun". Established by Pachacuti. Existed in Peru. Agriculture based economy with limited regional trading. Mita system established dominance. Advanced farming and building technologies. Religion was highly influential.
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
A long established trade route that led to the transit of goods between West African, the northern Arab, and European worlds. Goods included precious metals, such as gold, as well as slaves.
Flying Cash, Paper Money, Banking Houses, Bills of Exchange (Credit)
What were commercial technologies that increased trade on the Silk Roads?
Provided protection on the Silk Road
How did the Mongols promote trade and what trade route was primarily impacted by their rule?
Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism
What THREE relgions spread mostly through the Indian Ocean trade?
Mita System
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
Kin-based networks
A relation or network between two or more people that is based on common ancestry (descent) or marriage (affinity). This system greatly influenced indigenous African political practices.
Tea, Rice, Gunpowder, Porcelain, Paper
What were the most prominent products coming from China on the Silk Roads (besides silk)?
Ming Dynasty (began as "White Lotus" secret society)
What group in China brought an end to the Mongols and what was the name of the new dynasty they formed?
Benefit is that it increased European knowledge of other cultures and scientific progress. Consequence is the spread of bubonic plague (although it mostly came from Mongol trade routes from fleas on rats).
What is one benefit and one consequence of the European Crusades?
Carpa Nan (Inca...HINT rivals Roman achievement in scale)
This massive roadway system built by slaves and captive labor in the Inca empire. 25,000 miles of roads that assisted the gov't and military and later the Spanish. United empire.
Great Zimbabwe
A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E. Known for its cone-shaped towers, large palaces, large walls, and stone homes.
Mongols
Which empire is credited with re-securing the Silk Road and contributing to unprecedented trade in goods and ideas?
Ilkhan Empire (Middle East), Golden Horde (Central Asia), Chagatai Khanate (North of India), and Yuan Dynasty (China)
What were the empires the Mongols split into after the death of Genghis Khan AND where were they located?
Marco Polo (Silk Roads), Ibn Battuta (Trans-Saharan), and Zheng He (Indian Ocean)
Who are THREE famous explorers and what routes did they explore?
(1) Maya were in central America, while Mexica in Mexico and Inca in Peru (2) Aztecs and Inca acquired power through conquest (3) Mayans collapsed due to environmental overuse (4) Mayans were a collection of city-states rather than an empire (5) Maya had complete writing system
What are ways the Maya were different than the Inca and Aztecs?
Muslim Merchants
What historical group is most responsible for the spread of Islam in Africa?