Islamic People and Places
Movement
Asia
Randomness
Important People and Places
100
reason for split of Islam into Sunni and Shiites
What is a disagreement over Muhammad's successor?
100
Central Asian nomads who established the world's largest continuous empire EVER!
Who are the Mongols?
100
East Asian nation that developed a feudal system similar to Western Europe in the Post-Classical Period
What is Japan?
100
system in Western Europe in which loyalty and land was exchanged for military service and protection
What is feudalism?
100
first person to unify the Mongols
Who is Genghis Khan?
200
language that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa as a result of Islamic conquest
What is Arabic?
200
language that resulted from the mix of African and Arab cultures on the East African coast
What is Swahili?
200
practice seen as a status symbol and sign of beauty for women in China
What is foot binding?
200
method through which the Black Plague arrived in Europe from Asia
What is trade?
200
he was a European who visited Kublai Khan's court
Who is Marco Polo?
300
region of Africa where Islam was spread through the gold-salt trade and found many converts among the ruling class
What is West Africa (Ghana, Mali, Songhay)
300
group that terrorized Western Europe during the early Middle Ages through frequent invasions and raids
What is the Vikings?
300
two achievements or inventions of the Tang and Song dynasties
What are moveable type, gunpowder, rockets, flying money, junks, etc.
300
empire in present day Mexico that created a large civilization through farming and conquest
Who are the Aztecs?
300
he was a Muslim traveler from Morocco who visited all the Muslim kingdoms of the world in the 1300s
Who is Ibn Battuta?
400
capital of the Abbasids which became a center for art, scholarship, math, science, and medicine
What is Baghdad?
400
a general term for the trade between West Africa and Arab merchants from North Africa
What is Trans-Saharan Trade? (also gold-salt trade)
400
philosophy introduced in Tang and Song that restored Confucian ideas about morality and society, but blended Buddhist ideas about the soul
What is Neo-Confucianism?
400
place where Hinduism spread outside India
What is Southeast Asia or Indonesia?
400
Mansa Musa was a king from this empire who was famous for his hajj and spreading Islamic culture
What is Mali?
500
two types of people responsible for spreading Islam to places such as India and Indonesia
Who are sufis and merchants?
500
a specific impact of the Crusades on Europe
What is increased trade, new technology, etc
500
empire established by Islamic invaders in northern India
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
500
quick growing strain of rice that spread throughout Asia and resulted in increased population
What is champa rice?
500
Russia was originally settled by traders from this region
What is Scandinavia?
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