East Asia
The "Golden Age" dynasty that used a vast bureaucracy to rule.
What is the Song dynasty?
The system of social hierarchy in India that Islam's message of equality challenged.
What is the Caste System?
The "Three Sisters" of agriculture (maize, beans, squash) provided the context for this mound-building culture.
What is the Mississippi culture?
What is kin-based societies?
The decentralized political system based on land-for-loyalty exchanges between lords and vassals.
What is Feudalism?
The mystical branch of Islam used to spread the faith through travel and syncretism.
What is Sufism?
This fast-ripening, drought-resistant crop caused a massive population boom.
What is Champa rice?
This northern Indian state was established by Muslim Turkic invaders but struggled to create an efficient bureaucracy.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
The East African kingdom that maintained a continuity of Christianity amidst a predominantly Muslim region.
What is Ethiopia?
The economic system where serfs were tied to the land and worked for a lord’s self-sufficient estate.
What is the manorial system?
This place in Baghdad served as the context for the height of the Islamic Golden Age's scientific achievements.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This "New" philosophy revived ancient Chinese beliefs to ensure social order and filial piety.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
This sea-based empire in Indonesia maintained power by taxing trade routes between India and China.
What is the Sultanate of Malacca?
The labor tax system the Inca used to build their massive road network, the Carpa Nan.
What is the mita system?
The storytellers and oral historians who served as the backbone of cultural continuity in many African societies.
What are griots/griottes?
This 1215 document illustrated a change in English governance by limiting the monarch's power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This group of formerly enslaved soldiers seized power in Egypt, showing the fragmentation of the Abbasid Caliphate.
Who are the Mamluks?
This massive infrastructure project ensured internal trade continuity and unified the north and south.
What is the Grand Canal?
This movement in Hinduism focused on a personal relationship with a deity, similar to Islamic Sufism.
What is the bhakti movement?
The context of the Mayan government was not a unified empire, but a collection of these.
What are city-states?
This trading kingdom in Southeast Africa declined partly due to the environmental cause of overgrazing.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This new social class emerged in Europe as a result of increased trade and the growth of urban centers.
What is the merchant/middle class?
He was the prominent scholar who made major advances in trigonometry and astronomy in the 13th century.
Who is Nasir al-Din al-Tusi?
This exam allowed for social mobility and ensured the government was run by educated "scholar-gentry".
What is the Civil Service Exam?
This land-based empire used massive irrigation systems to build prosperity and massive Buddhist/Hindu temples.
What is the Khmer Empire?
This specific labor practice forced conquered people to provide clothing or service to the Aztec "Great Speaker".
What is the Tribute System?
The form of slavery where individuals were considered legal property, which became more common in later centuries.
What is chattel slavery?
This agricultural innovation, which rotated crops, led to significant population growth in Europe.
What is the three field system?
This Islamic state in Spain was a center of syncretism where Muslims, Christians, and Jews coexisted.
What is al-Andalus?
The process where China's economy shifted toward mass production of luxury goods like silk and porcelain.
What is proto-industrialization?
This tax was required of non-Muslims (dhimmis) in India as a condition of religious tolerance.
What is the jizya tax?
This Andean technology of knotted strings was used to communicate and record data without a written language.
What is a quipu?
This famous Mali ruler’s pilgrimage to Mecca showcased West African wealth and Islamic connection to the world.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This "rebirth" of ancient Greek and Roman culture was caused by increased wealth from Middle Eastern trade.
What is the Renaissance?
This specific event caused the definitive end of the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258.
What is the invasion of the Mongols?
This neighboring island nation adopted many Chinese traditions but maintained a change in governance via feudalism.
What is Japan?
This Indian empire was founded by brothers who converted back to Hinduism to assert local power against the Delhi Sultanate.
What is the Vijayanagara Empire?
What is the north/south orientation OR the physical and geographical barriers to movement (Panama, forest, etc.)
These centralized trading kingdoms in West Africa grew powerful by controlling the Trans-Saharan trade routes.
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai ?
This conflict between secular monarchs and the Church over the right to appoint religious officials.
What is the Lay Investiture Controversy?
This major technology, adopted from China, caused an explosion in the spread of knowledge across Dar al-Islam.
What is papermaking?
This practice for women was a physical manifestation of Confucian patriarchy and social status.
What is footbinding?
This religion spread to Southeast Asia through trade and was often adopted by ruling elites to strengthen their authority.
What is Buddhism?
This group in North America developed advanced water conservation and masonry homes in the Southwestern U.S..
What is Mesa Verde (Pueblo)?
These city-states in West Africa specialized in trade and remained a loose kinship kingdom without a single ruler.
What is the Hausa Kingdom?
This Mongol-led encroachment on Eastern Europe led to a long-term cultural separation from Western Europe.
What is the Golden Horde?
Muslims were perfect candidates to spread their religion and technology through trade because
What is Muhammad was a merchant/trading was an honorable profession?