Eastern Roman Empire
Eastern half of the Roman Empire. The capitol is Constantinople. This area had more of a Greek influence.
What is Byzantine Empire
Black Death, came by trade killed 2/3 the population, lead to end of Feudalism due to large amount of death and caused people to move to cities
What is Bubonic Plague
He set out on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Decked out in his finest clothes, he passed through Cairo with 500 slaves, each of whom carried a six-pound staff of gold. Backing them up were 100 camels, carrying in sum over 30,000 more pounds of the precious metal. He started a period of inflation for many years
Who is Mansa Musa
An Abrahamic, monotheistic religion that diffused into Ghana, Mali, and Songhai due to trade with merchants from the Middle East? They have 5 pillars such as prayer 5 times a day, fasting, and a hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca
What is Islam
Leader of the Mongols that created the largest contiguous land empire in history. He built a powerful army of ruthless warriors. United all the mongol tribes.
What is Genghis Khan
They (2 people) established Greek Orthodox church and Law Code for Byzantine Empire. Co-Rulers. Womens Rights. Re-Built Hagia Sophia Church and many public works projects
Who are Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora
A division in the medieval Roman Catholic Church, during which rival popes were established. Roman Catholics vs. Greek Orthodox. Pope vs. Patriarch. Disagreed over icon worship.
What is the Great Schism
This kingdom was very rich with gold. The king also used his power to spread international trade. At its peak, Ghana was chiefly bartering gold, ivory and slaves for salt from Arabs and horses, cloth, swords and books from North Africans and Europeans.
What is Kingdom of Ghana
Camel caravans from North Africa carried bars of salt as well as cloth, tobacco, and metal tools across the Sahara to trading centers like Djenne and Timbuktu. This trade route spread across the Sahara between sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa.
What was the name of that route?
What is Trans-Saharan Trade route (Gold-Salt Trade)
He was Genghis Khan’s grandson. Conquered China and became the first foreign leader to rule China (Yuan Dynasty). Moved the Mongol capital to China
Who was Kublai Khan
Huge center of trade. Formerly known as Istanbul. In modern day turkey. Capitol of Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople
Slips of paper the church corruptly sold to people as it passes into heaven. The counter reformation ended the sale of these to try to stop the reformation.
What are indulgences
Mansa Musa, Ibn Battuta, and Sundiata Kieta were from this empire. At its peak (1200-1300), this kingdom extended across West Africa to the Atlantic Ocean, encompassing, southern and western Mauritania and Senegal, and ruled over an estimated 40 to 50 million people. one of the first Muslim states in northern Africa
What is Kingdom of Mali
This city is reputedly the birthplace of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Mansa Musa traveled here and spread the wealth of Mali on his journey. This city has strong ties to the Islamic faith, the first holiest city in Islam
What is Mecca
Peace period of time which allowed trade, technologies, commodities, and ideologies to be disseminated and exchanged across Eurasia.
What is Pax Mongolica
This empire are the invaders who took over Constantinople and lead to the fall of the Byzantine EmpireThis was one of the mightiest and longest-lasting empires in world history. This Islamic-run superpower ruled large areas of the Middle East, Eastern Europe and North Africa for more than 600 years.
What is Ottoman Empire
He believed all people with faith were equal. Posts 95 theses to the door of the church that said all the issues in the church. Began the reformation
Who was Martin Luther
This was the last and greatest of the three West African merchant empires that existed between 1000 and 1600. Askia Muhammad ruled here. Timbuktu and Djenne were important cities here. It surpassed the other Empires in area, wealth, and power, absorbing vast areas of the Mali Empire and reached its greatest extent.
What is the Kingdom of Songhai
This person traveled further than Marco Polo and Zeng He and wrote one of the most famous travel logs. He was a Muslim Moroccan scholar and explorer who travelled extensively inlands across and beyond the Muslim world
Who is Ibn Battuta
He was a Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. He enjoyed the freedom and stability the Pax Mongolica provided, and was able to bring back valuable information about the East and the Mongol Empire to Europe.
Marco Polo
This was a major religion in Byzantine Empire
What is Greek Orthodox Religion
This piece of new technology used mechanical type and allowed knowledge to be spread quickly across the world. It was a refined version of the old chinese way of type. It helped the reformation leaders get their word out to the public in their vernacular language.
what is the printing press made by johannes gutenberg
He ruled Mali first before Mansa Musa, and decided to assign specific occupations to particular groups and developed a social organization similar to a caste system. For example, if born into a family of warriors, one was destined to be a warrior. Known as the lion King
Who is Sundiata Kieta of Mali
This language diffused through coastal trade and combined arabic and african languages
What is Swahili
Kublai Khan's death lead to the division of the empire into 4 khanates, each lead by weak rulers, this weakness lead it to be taken over by the Ming empire of china. This describes:
What is: the decline of the mongol empire