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Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This killed between one-third and two-thirds of the population in less than five years. The epidemic spanned from China to England to North Africa, transmitted along the Silk Road and other trade routes.
What is the Bubonic Plague (i dont care that this isnt a battle or war deal with it.)
(330-1453) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The 5 pillars of Islam
What is
Declaration of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage
Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire); split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Third son of Genghis Khan. Sent Mongol armies to invade Kiev/Russia, Hungary, Poland and Northern China.
Who is Ogedai Khan
Muslim empires of the Ottomans, Safavids, and the Mughals that employed cannonry and gunpowder to advance their military causes.
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controlled a small area of northern India and was centered in Delhi.
What is the Delhi Sultinate?
A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims.
What is Islam?
Winds that blow from west to east
What is Westerlies?
(1215-1294) Grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China.
Who is Kublai Khan
'Selection' in Turkish. The system by which boys from Christian communities were taken by the Ottoman state to serve as Janissaries.
What is the Devshirme system
From 1235-1400, this was a strong empire of Western African. With its trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao, it had many mosques and universities. The Empire upheld a strong gold-salt trade.
What is Mali?
term that describes the resurgence of Confucianism and the influence of Confucian scholars during the T'ang Dynasty; a unification of Daoist or Buddhist metaphysics with Confucian pragmatism
What is Neoconfuscianism
group of traveling merchants and animals
what is caravans
The title of Temujin when he ruled the Mongols (1206-1227). It means the 'universal' leader. He was the founder of the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Khan
was a semi-feudal government of Japan in which one of the shoguns unified the country under his family's rule. They moved the capital to Edo, which now is called Tokyo.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate (i still dont care that this isnt a war or battle)
Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962 to 1806.
What is the Holy Roman EMpire
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
What is Mercantilism
sturdy boats built by Vikings that could survive in the oceans and navigate in rivers
What are longboats
Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
Who is Cervantes
A small paintings were popular in the middle east and south Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries, often depicting scenes from the Qu'ran
What are Ottoman miniature paintings
Louis XIV of France
what is "Sun King", absolute monarch of France, built Palace of Versailles, revoked Edict of Nantes
A general term for a class of prosperous families, sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
What is the gentry
obligated loyalty or faithfulness
what is fealty