Topic 1.1 - Developments in East Asia
This common practice in China ensured women would be confined to the home.
What is foot binding?
This faith spread from its origin in the Arabian peninsula mostly through merchants, pilgrims, and traveling mystics.
What is Islam?
He was the leader credited for uniting several tribes that would ultimately form the Mongol Empire.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This naturally occurring phenomenon was one of the most important, helpful factors in the growth of trade along Indian Ocean routes.
What are the monsoon winds?
Though challenging to cross, it was home to several important trade routes that linked distant societies to each other.
What is the Sahara desert?
This Chinese dynasty was known particularly for its cultural and economic development, largely due to the silk trade.
What is the Song dynasty?
Besides trade, this religious practice of Muslims helped spread innovations and people across the Islamic world.
What is the hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca?
The four divisions of the Mongol Empire, each controlled by a son or grandson of Genghis Khan after his death.
What are the khanates?
Aside from camels, it was the primary mode of transportation used during this era to move goods.
What is the boat?
This pack animal is known as “the ship of the desert”.
What is the camel?
In 1200, this was the largest state with the most people.
What is China?
This fabled city was once a leader in intellectual thought and scholarship and contained the "House of Wisdom".
What is Baghdad?
The period of peace and stability during Mongol rule, it created a huge, safe, integrated trade zone that made it easier to trade.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
This region did NOT participate in the thriving ocean trade route sometimes called, “The Monsoon Marketplace”.
What is Europe?
The West African states of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai grew wealthy and powerful by controlling the trade of these two items.
What are gold and salt?
Chinese women were more restricted financially, expected to work only in the home, and generally had less freedom under this traditional belief system.
What is Confucianism?
Western African leaders’ devotion to this religion made them much more connected to the rest of Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries.
What is Islam?
This disease spread when the Mongols opened up trade paths, which brought infected fleas on rats to Europe.
What is the bubonic plague or Black Death?
This region contributed slaves, ivory and gold to the Indian Ocean trade network.
What is East Africa?
This city in Mali became a center of Islamic learning and scholarship.
What is Timbuktu?
This was the name of the Mongol dynasty in China.
What is Yuan?
This innovation was developed in China and taught to Europeans by Muslims.
What is paper?
Mongol rulers demonstrated this quality by employing Christian, Jewish and Muslim officials in their government.
What is religious tolerance?
Societies on the eastern coast of Africa developed into this type of political unit.
What is a city-state?
This invention help to greatly expand trade through the Sahara desert.
What is the camel saddle?