Venice
Venice is located on over 100 islands, near this valley in Northern Italy that has some of the best farmland in the country.
What is the Po Valley?
North African or Iberian, typically darker skinned Muslims.
Who were Moors?
The building or buildings occupied by a community of monks or nuns.
What is the abbey?
Portable housing of traditional steppe people of Mongolia (2).
What are yurts and Gers?
Mongol peace that opened up trade and revived the Silk Trade Networks.
What was the Pax Mongolia?
East coast of Africa - included Mombasa, Zanzibar and Mogadishu.
What is the Swahili Coast?
This Rajput kingdom in Northwestern India was SUPER wealthy due to their connections to trade from the east and west.
What was Gujarat?
The first Venetians were refugees fleeing from Goths and Huns after the end of this empire from the 5th to 6th centuries CE.
What was the western Roman Empire?
Term used in the medieval period, initially by Christians from the Italian city-states to describe Muslims from the Arab world.
Who were Saracens?
A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
What is a guild?
Three types of military tactics that made the Mongols successful.
What are 1. faked retreats 2. skill on horseback with a short bow 3. use of diverted river water to break down city walls 4. ability to fight in winter 5. flank formations that surrounded and cornered their enemies 6. leather armor with silk underneath that was light and difficult to penetrate 7. early use of gunpowder 8. organization of their militaries by groups of 100 and 1000
Location of the Chagatai Khanate.
What was central Asia?
Typically, enslaved women from Africa were used in these types of jobs.
What are domestic jobs?
Ming Dynasty admiral that led 7 different, massive expeditions to eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Indonesia and India.
Who was Zheng He?
The appointed leader of Venice's government.
Who was the doge?
Term (15th century, French/Latin) to describe non-Christians, particularly those who controlled the "Holy Land" of the Levant. Pejorative.
What were infidels?
The corrupt practice of selling church positions in the clergy of the RCC.
What is simony?
Mongols believed the religion was tied to the land of people, which greatly influenced this way of dealing with different religious groups in their empire.
What is they were religiously tolerant?
Location of the Ilkhanate Empire.
What was Persia?
Understanding of these weather factors and patterns in the Indian Ocean improved, and therefore trade increased as a result.
What are monsoon winds?
Locations of the empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai.
What was northwest Africa?
Venice needed to take over land with lots of forests for these two purposes.
What were to have the wood pilings that the city is built on and the build their navies and maritime fleet of ships?
An action or belief that does not follow the teachings and practices of a religion, typically Roman Catholic Christianity. Questioning of any church authority or practices was considered this crime, and often punishable by excommunication and death.
What is heresy?
A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
What are the steppes?
Location of the Golden Horde.
What were Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Siberia and Georgia?
The princes from this region would eventually unite to create this culture and kingdom.
Who were the Kievan Rus and the Russian Empire?
These people from west and east Africa did work such as sailors, domestic laborers and shipwrights and were brought to Oman, India and elsewhere where aspects of their culture (music, words, dna) still are present.
Who were enslaved people?
This religion spread throughout much of the Trans-Saharan region, central Asia, Persia, India and Indonesia by the 13th century.
What was Islam?
Venetians had a monopoly on the trade of these products from India.
What were spices?
Favoritism shown to family members, especially by granting them jobs or other opportunities. This practice is often criticized for being unfair and for potentially overlooking more qualified candidates.
What is nepotism?
The general term for having multiple spouses.
What is polygamy?
Yuan Dynasty locations.
What was East Asia (China, Cambodia, Tibet, Korea)?
If a city did not surrender to the Mongols, the Mongols would usually do this to its buildings.
What was burn them down?
Who were the Portuguese?
These places (both Buddhist and Christian) controlled large amounts of land as well as valuable artifacts.
What are monasteries?
Venetians conquered much of the east coast of the Adriatic Sea, named this...which is where present day Croatia and Montenegro are located today.
What is Dalmatia?
Practical. For example, cosmopolitan cities that are entrepôts are often religiously tolerant because it is practical, or this term to conduct trade.
What is pragmatic?
Name of the southern tip of Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Dominant ethnic group in China that were taken out of their roles of leadership in the government by the Mongols.
Who were the Han Chinese?
Mongols often left local administrators to rule and collect this on behalf of the Mongols, which kept funds from trade control in their treasury.
What was tribute?
This type of sail was utilized to increase trade and safe travel across the Indian Ocean.
What was the lateen sail?
Improvements in the varieties of this invention improved trade across the Sahara (and other) deserts.
What is the saddle?