DAR-AL ISLAM
This Arabic term refers to the “House of Islam,” describing regions under Islamic rule and law.
What is Dar al-Islam?
This political system structured European society by organizing relationships between lords and vassals based on land and loyalty.
What is feudalism?
This dynasty reunited China after the Period of Disunion and expanded the civil service examination system.
What is the Tang Dynasty?
This empire conquered Constantinople in 1453 and expanded across North Africa, the Balkans, and the Middle East.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This was the name for the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
One major reason the Abbasid Caliphate's capital became a hub of learning was due to its location along these trade routes.
What are the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean trade routes?
This event opened Europe to new trade goods, ideas, and technologies from the Islamic world and Asia.
What are the Crusades?
This dynasty introduced the civil service exam system based on Confucianism.
What is the Han Dynasty?
The Safavid Empire was unique among the Gunpowder Empires because of its promotion of this sect of Islam.
What is Shi’a Islam?
This devastating impact of the Columbian Exchange led to the deaths of up to 90% of Indigenous populations in the Americas
What is disease (especially smallpox)?
Dar al-Islam was intellectually vibrant during the Abbasid era because of this institution that promoted translation and scientific inquiry.
What is the House of Wisdom in Baghdad?
The decline of feudalism and the rise of towns were accelerated by this catastrophic 14th-century event.
What is the Black Death?
The Yuan Dynasty represented a period of foreign rule under this Central Asian group.
Who are the Mongols?
The Mughals ruled over a majority-Hindu population in India but maintained stability through this policy under Akbar.
What is religious tolerance or syncretism?
After 1500, the introduction of American crops like maize and potatoes to Europe and Asia led to this major demographic change.
What is an increase in global population?
This Islamic practice promoted unity across diverse cultures by mandating a shared religious obligation.
What is the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca)?
The Magna Carta (1215) was significant because it challenged this core concept of medieval monarchy.
What is absolute power of the king or divine right of kings?
This Mongol-led dynasty opened up trade and was visited by Marco Polo.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
The Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals expanded their empires by using this Chinese-invented technology in warfare and state-building.
What is gunpowder weaponry?
This labor-intensive crop from the Americas drove the demand for enslaved Africans.
What is sugarcane?
Dar al-Islam's cultural blending is best seen in this intellectual movement that included translating Greek texts into Arabic and making advances in algebra and medicine.
What is the Islamic Golden Age?
Medieval Europe's decentralization stands in contrast to the centralization seen in empires like this contemporary Islamic power.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This dynasty restored Chinese rule after the Mongols and sponsored the voyages of Zheng He.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
A key reason the Gunpowder Empires eventually declined was their resistance to adopting this type of expansion strategy used by European powers.
What is maritime exploration or naval imperialism?
European demand for cash crops like sugar and tobacco during the Columbian Exchange directly contributed to the intensification of this coerced labor system that reshaped demographics across the Atlantic world.
What is chattel slavery as part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade?