Belief systems
Belief system of the Delhi Sultanate in Northern India. They ruled over a Hindu majority.
What is Islam?
Mali, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Axum.
What is Africa (north, east and west)?
Language that evolved and combined Hindi, Persian, Arabic, and Farsi.
What is Urdu?
Sundiata and his successor Mansa Musa were so rich due to control over this commodity.
What is gold?
Middle Kingdom.
What is China?
Navigational technology invented in China.
What is a compass?
Rajput princes of South Asia (present day India and Pakistan) followed this religion.
What is Hinduism?
Srivijaya, Majapahit, Khmer Empires.
What is Southeast Asia?
Language that developed on the East African coast that combined Bantu and Arabic.
What is Swahili?
People of east and west Africa were experienced in the cultivation of these two crops. Their knowledge of this would be exploited by Europeans once they enslaved these people in the Americas to grow these crops.
What are sugar and cotton?
Samurai, Daimyo, Bushido, Shogun.
What is Japan?
Also invented in China, initially used for celebrations, the Chinese also realized it could be used as a weapon, and developed early technology to do so.
What is gunpowder?
Ethiopian kingdoms of Axum and later Abyssinia followed a specific denomination of this religion, and are believed to be some its earliest disciples.
What is Christianity?
Song, Yuan, Tokugawa, Goryeo.
What is East Asia?
Khmer rulers (present day Vietnam and Cambodia) of the 12th and 13th centuries have sculptures and artwork that reflects these two faiths.
What are Hinduism and Buddhism?
Preservative of the ancients - it was mined and carried out of the Sahara (as well as other places globally).
What is salt?
This staple food was brought from South Asia to China in the Song Dynasty. It could be harvested more than once a season, leading to greater production and population growth.
What is Champa rice?
Because these people bought and sold goods that others made, but did not actually create them, they were lower on the hierarchy due to Confucian teachings.
Who were merchants?
Belief system that was founded in Northern India circa 500s BCE, it spread to the east and is also ingrained in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, and other Eastern cultures and belief systems.
What is Buddhism?
Chola, Gupta, Rajput, Vijayanagar Empires.
What is South Asia?
True or False - The caste system has its origins in Hinduism. People of other religions (Buddhists, Jains, Muslims, Sikhs) in South Asia did not experience or live the restrictions or privileges of caste.
What is false? Even though caste has its origins in Hinduism, and even though those other religions found in India officially rejected class, in reality, caste still applied to those people too.
Silk, cotton, wool, and linen.
What are textiles?
The Confucian Civil Service exam made Chinese imperial bureaucracy more this.. meaning the scholars had to earn their place through their intelligence and knowledge of Confucian teachings.
What is a meritocracy?
These places of religious devotion and study, were sometimes located remotely to be far away from society, and sometimes located within cities along trade routes. They had libraries and other valuables, and were places of great beauty and religious significance.
What are monasteries?
Through trade and missionaries, this religion that originated in the Arabian peninsula spread to present day Indonesia and the surrounding areas.
What is Islam?
Byzantine, Roman.
What are Southeastern Europe, the Levant and Anatolia?
Types of Buddhism as it spread.
What are Zen, Tibetan, and Theravada)?
Three commodities that China had a monopoly on during this time period.
What are silk, porcelain and tea?
Historically, a semi-autonomous tributary state to China. Their bureaucracy was limited to the elite landed aristocracy. (land owners)
What is Korea?
The founders of the Yuan Dynasty (that would replace the Song) were seen as foreign invaders by the Chinese. They were pastoral people from these two northern locations.
Who were Mongols and Manchus?