Song Dynasty
These are five innovations of the Song Dynasty during the period c. 1200 to 1450 C.E...
What are: Wood-block Printing, Paper, Books, Champa Rice, Gunpowder weapons, Porcelain, Silk production, Proto-factories in the home, and numerous other possible answers?
This is the legal system based on the Quran prevalent in many Islamic societies even to this day...
What is Sharia Law?
As part of the rapid spread of this religion prior to the period c. 1200 to 1450, the Delhi Sultanate came to dominate the northern Indian subcontinent...
What is Islam?
As founders of the Vijaynagara Empire, two brothers defected from the Delhi Sultanate, rejected Islam, and embraced this religion, the traditional religion of South Asia...
What is Hinduism?
This practice, existent in all major Meso-American cultures, was an important ritual in the polytheistic, complex Aztec religion, but horrified the Spanish conquistadors...
What is human sacrifice?
The usage of this trade route was a major continuity in Chinese history and was used by the Song Dynasty to distribute luxury goods, like silk, porcelain, and paper...
What is the Silk Road?
With more than a million inhabitants, this capital of the Abbasid Caliphate was likely the largest city outside of China in the period c. 1200-1450 C.E...
What is Baghdad?
While the more southerly Vijaynagara Empire focused on trade in the Indian Ocean, the more northerly Delhi Sultanate traded with East Asia and the Middle East on this important trade route...
What are the Silk Roads?
This is the common Hindu architectural structure that would often be decorated with intricate, colorfully painted sculptures of gods, such as Vishnu or Shiva...
What are Hindu Towers?
These floating farms were extremely fertile and represent an important innovation of the Aztec Empire...
What are Chinampas?
This syncretic blend of religions and belief systems was an innovation in Song Dynasty China, which was a change from previous Chinese dynasties which generally rejected Buddhism...
What is Neo-Confucianism (syncretic blend of Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism)?
This proto-university in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, preserved knowledge from Europe and elsewhere in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, medicine, history, philosophy, and others...
What is the House of Wisdom?
This is a tax imposed on non-Muslims in a Muslim controlled state like the Delhi Sultanate...
What is the Jizya?
Due to controlling a very large coastline in South Asia, this trade route was very important to the Vijaynagara Empire in the period c. 1200 to 1450 C.E...
The Indian Ocean Trade Network...
This Aztec capital city was built in the middle of Lake Texcoco and fell to Cortes and his Spanish conquistadors in 1519...
What is Tenochtitlan?
Song Dynasty China was more of a meritocracy than many states of the period c. 1200 to 1450 C.E. due to the social mobility offered to males through this important test, which determined eligibility for highly desired and highly paid position in the imperial bureaucracy...
What are the Civil Service Examinations?
In addition to transferring goods on the Silk Roads, highly respected Muslim Merchants also traded goods on this sea route with stops in Africa, Arabia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia....
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network (Sea Roads)?
Islam's introduction to South Asia through the invasion of the region by the Delhi Sultanate represents this in terms of our AP World History thinking processes...
What is change?
Hinduism as the dominant religion in the Vijayanagara Empire of South Asia represents this in terms of our AP World History thinking processes...
What is a continuity?
What is Tribute?
The Song Dynasty and its emperor held this important distinction for the Chinese people until they were ousted by the Mongols in 1279 C.E...
What is the Mandate of Heaven...
According to the prevailing interpretation of Sharia Law in a given Muslim/Islamic society, women might be forced to wear a hijab, a niqab or this full body covering...
What is a Burka?
Qutub Minar in the Delhi Sultanate is a prime example of a syncretic blend of these two religions traditions...
What are Hinduism and Islam?
On the Indian Ocean Trade Network, trade in this commodity allowed the Vijayanagara Empire to grow wealthy and flourish...
What are spices/spice trade?
This group of long-distance running merchants traveled all over the Aztec Empire, and even beyond, in search of rare goods for the Aztec nobility. They often acted as spies for Aztec leadership...
Who are the Pochteca?