Technology/Innovation
Clue: This technology, originally developed outside Europe, was adopted by Europeans and used in cannons.
What is gunpowder?
In Western Europe from approximately 1000–1300, political power was divided among these three groups.
Who are kings, nobles and church leaders?
Unlike the polytheistic traditions found in much of India, Islam emphasised belief in this.
What is monotheism?
The Inca and Aztec had systems in which men and women operated in separate but complementary spheres.
What is gender parallelism?
This trade network helped the Swahili civilisation emerge along the East African coast.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
Clue: This Chinese innovation contributed to major changes in communication and the spread of knowledge.
What is papermaking?
This system emerged in Europe after the fall of Rome and emphasised reciprocal relationships between rulers, lords and their dependants.
What is feudalism?
One feature of Islam that contrasted with the social and religious divisions found in some Hindu contexts was the emphasis on the equality and inclusivity of these people.
Who are Muslims?
Women in both the Aztec and Inca empires could exercise this type of authority.
What is political authority?
These West African peoples became important middlemen in the trans-Saharan trade during the eleventh century.
Who are the Hausa-speaking peoples?
This navigational technology helped sailors determine direction and was one example of technology transferred between civilisations.
What is the compass?
This empire came to an end when Constantinople was captured in 1453.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
From the tenth to fourteenth centuries, many Turkic peoples adopted this major world religion.
What is Islam?
This practice became increasingly associated with restrictions on women's lives during the Song dynasty.
What is foot binding?
This agricultural innovation from Vietnam contributed to a major increase in China's population during the Tang and Song periods.
What is Champa rice?
The adoption of technologies from other civilisations demonstrates this broader historical process.
What is cultural diffusion?
During the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire expanded into this region of the Mediterranean world.
What is North Africa?
Prince Vladimir's choice of this Christian tradition helped shape the religious identity of Kievan Rus.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
The intellectual tradition whose revival contributed to greater restrictions on Chinese women's lives during the Song dynasty.
What is Confucianism?
The growth of the Indian Ocean trade network illustrates how maritime trade could connect East Africa with regions such as Arabia, India and Southeast Asia.
What is Afro-Eurasian interconnection?
European societies between 1000 and 1300 increasingly benefited from technologies and knowledge developed in other regions rather than developing every innovation independently.
What is cross-cultural exchange?
The Song dynasty helped establish a governmental structure in China that remained influential for centuries, including into the twentieth century.
What is the bureaucratic state?
Kievan Rus adopted this Byzantine political-religious idea concerning the relationship between imperial authority and the church.
What is imperial control of the church?
The Song dynasty's treatment of women demonstrates that economic and technological development does not necessarily result in this type of social change.
What is greater gender equality?
The spread of technologies, crops, religions and cultural practices across Afro-Eurasia demonstrates this major AP World History theme.
What is exchange and cultural diffusion?