Unit 1 Vocab
This crop allowed China to create somewhat of a food surplus, which gave artisans more freedom to create luxury goods to trade along the Silk Road.
Champa Rice
This is regarded as the largest contiguous land-based empire.
The Mongols
Given the birth name Temujin, this was the founder and original leader of the Mongolian Empire.
Ghengis (Chinngis) Khan
Karakorum was the capital city of this land-based empire.
Mongolian Empire
The name given to a plot of land during European feudalism.
Fief
This system of government was common in 13th century Europe and Japan, where land was exchanged for loyalty.
Feudalism
This Chinese Dynasty ruled from 960-1279 and was largely responsible for starting the popularity of the Silk Road.
The Song Dynasty
This was the name of the plague that effectively destabilized the feudal system across Europe.
This khanate of the Mongolian Empire spanned across modern-day Russia.
The Golden Horde
This is the name of the monarchy in pre-revolution France, which was made up of three different estates based on social status.
The Estates-General
This public works project connected several waterways in Sui China and was expanded further during the Ming Dynasty.
The Grand Canal
This Sultanate was located in modern-day India, and laid the groundwork for what would eventually be the powerful gunpowder empire of the Mughals.
Delhi Sultanate.
This early navigational tool was popularized first by Arab explorers.
The Astrolabe
Located in the Empire of Mali, along the academic city of Gao, this trading city was one of the largest in Africa.
Timbuktu
This document served as medieval law, according to English royalty, well into the Middle Ages.
The Magna Carta
Stemming from Mahayana Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty, this form of Buddhism is another syncretic religion that sprouted up in East and South Asia.
Zen Buddhism
Native Americans in in the North American midwest formed this collective state that spanned upwards of six square miles and served as a center for trade.
Cahokia
This period of relative stability in Eurasia was brought upon by the Mongol Empire during the 13th and 14th Centuries.
Pax Mongolica
The Ming Dynasty commissioned this explorer, court eunuch, and diplomat to serve as admiral in its Navy.
Zheng He
This split between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in 1054 impacted the structure of Christianity throughout the Middle Ages.
The Great Schism
This Abbasid building, in the important trading city of Baghdad, served as a center for higher academia and was one of the world's largest libraries.
The House of Wisdom
This Sultanate was located in Syria and Egypt, having some influence throughout the Ottoman Empire.
The Mamluk Sultanate.
This organization was formed by German merchants to protect their mutual trading interests.
The Hanseatic League
This khanate of the Mongolian Empire was located in the Muslim Heartland and was often at war with the Mamluk's of Egypt and Syria.
Ilkhanate (Ilkhan Khanate)
These roadside inns or villages served as rest stops along the silk road for travelling merchants.
Caravanserai