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
This trade route served as an important role in history, and has been a key factor in East-West exchanges. Long distance, long established trade in dhows and sailboats made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Zanzibar and Mombasa in the West.South & Southeast Asia
Indian Ocean Trade Network
A long established trade route that led to the transit of goods between West African, the northern Arab, and European worlds. Goods included precious metals, such as gold, as well as slaves.
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule; ultimately spread culture, technology, and increased trade but were not successful
Crusades
A Chinese philosophy that shows the way to ensure a stable government, rigid hierarchy, filial piety, and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct.
Confucianism
What is one thing that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism have in common?
Monotheistic, People of the Book, Same Holy Lands
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controlled a small area of northern India.
Delhi Sultanate
This modern-day country was home to the Aztec Empire
Mexico
During 1000 to 1450, most Asian and European philosophies shared this common feature
Religions
Quick-maturing agricultural development that can allow two harvests in one growing season; led to increased populations in Song Dynasty China. Originally introduced via trade routes to Vietnam from India, and later to China
Champa Rice
Large Islamic-based Library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus of conversion of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Preserved knowledge.
House of Wisdom
This highly traded and delicious product allowed for the rise of many Southeast Asian states (such as the Srivijaya and Majapahit in Indonesia, and the Khmer in Cambodia)
Spices
This massive roadway system built by slaves and captive labor in the Inca empire. 25,000 miles of roads that assisted the gov't and military and later the Spanish. united empire.
Carpa Nan
This system of lords, vassals, and serfs was the primary economic, political, and social system in medieval Europe.
Feudalism
What is one thing that Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared in common during the period 1200 to 1450?
All were culturally influenced by China
After the expansion of Islam into Africa, an organized Christian presence remained primarily in these two places
Egypt and Ethiopia
This founder developed a religion centered around the elimination of desire and suffering
Siddhartha Gautama
A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E.
Great Zimbabwe
Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming ESTATES where lords and peasants shared the land
Manorialism
A meritocratic practice that Chinese bureaucrats needed to pass to serve in state, based on Confucian concepts
Civil Service Exam
Who are TWO groups who posed a challenge to the Abbasid Caliphate AND where did they come from?
(1) Mamluks from Egypt (2) Seljuk Turks from Central Asia (3) Crusaders from Europe (4) Mongols from China
What are TWO similarities between the spread of Islam and Buddhism?
(1) Spread along trade routes, including Indian Ocean Network (2) Changed as it spread (3) Challenged the caste system (4) More rights for women
What are TWO ways the Maya were different than the Inca and Aztecs?
(1) Maya were in central America, while Mexica in Mexico and Inca in Peru (2) Aztecs and Inca acquired power through conquest (3) Mayans collapsed due to environmental overuse (4) Mayans were a collection of city-states rather than an empire
Between 1000 and 1300, while China maintained a single empire, Western Europe saw the rise of these