East Asia
The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. Its revival helped lead to the commercialization of Song China
The Grand Canal
TRUE or FALSE: The Abbasid Caliphate was extremely centralized, unified, and politically stable between 1200 and 1450.
FALSE
Long distance, long established trade in dhows and sailboats made this an important zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Swahili City-States in the West.
Indian Ocean Trade Network
Floating gardens constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs to increase agricultural yields.
Chinampas
What are the TWO most important natural resources that allowed Africa to prosper during the period 1200 to 1450?
Gold and Salt
Plague that killed 25-30 million Europeans
Black Death
A Chinese philosophy ensuring that following filial piety & the five relationships would result in a stable government and an orderly society.
Confucianism
Non-Muslims living in Islamic states often had to pay this...
Jizya tax
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Expanded and contracted over the years, but never successfully converted the local populations to Islam.
Delhi Sultanate
Andean civilization with an agriculture based economy. Religion was highly influential.
Inca
A long established trade route that led to the transit of goods between West Africa, the Middle East, and parts of Europe. Goods included precious metals and enslaved people.
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
A coerced, agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate
Serf
Quick-maturing agricultural development that can allow two harvests in one growing season; led to increased populations in Song Dynasty China.
Champa Rice
Large Islamic-based library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus on translation of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Preserved knowledge.
House of Wisdom
This highly traded product allowed for the rise of many Southeast Asian states (such as the Srivijaya and Majapahit in Indonesia and the Khmer in Cambodia). Several islands would be named after this product.
Spices
Popular Crops used in Mississippian and other societies in the Americas
Maize, beans, squash
A relation or network between two or more people that is based on common ancestry. This system greatly influenced indigenous African political practices.
Kin-based networks
A system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
Feudalism
Bureaucrats needed to pass this to serve the imperial government.
Civil Service Exam
An Islamic mystical tradition that desired a personal union with God--dedicating themselves to fasting, prayer, meditation on the Qur'an, and the avoidance of sin.
Sufism
An immensely popular development in Hinduism, advocating intense devotion toward a particular deity.
Bhakti Movement
An economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced; men and women were expected to contribute this labor to the state yearly
Mit'a System
A powerful state in the African interior that traded with the Swahili city-states and was known for its stone enclosures.
Great Zimbabwe
A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 undertaken by European Christians to take the Holy Land from Muslim rule; ultimately spread culture, technology, and increased trade but were not successful.
Crusades
What is one thing that Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared in common during the period 1200 to 1450?
All were culturally influenced by China.
Mamluks and Seljuks both illustrated the transition from an Arabic-controlled Muslim world to a(n) ___-controlled Muslim world.
Turkic
A hierarchical system along which many South Asians structured society
Caste System
The Aztec Empire really refers to this coalition between the Texcoco, Tenochtitlan, and Tlacopan city-states.
Triple Alliance
What group is most responsible for the spread of Islam in Africa?
Muslim Merchants
An agreement that nobles imposed on King John of England in 1215 which limited the monarchy
Magna Carta