1.1 East Asia `
Name three Song Dynasty inventions
Gunpowder, Compass, Wood Block Printing (an early version of the printing press)
Status Islamic of Muslim women
Generally Better than it was in other regions....
These women could inherit property and retain ownership after marriage. They could remarry if widowed and could receive a cash settlement if divorced.
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This group brought Islam to India and reigned from the 14th to the 16th century. This lead to some Hindus converting to Islam and others resenting Islam because a tax called the jizya was imposed on non-Muslim subjects.
What is the Delhi Sultanate
System of labor used in the Incan Empire
What is the Mit'a System
Lucrative trade for Muslims through this route allowed for wealthy kingdoms like Mali and Songhai to flourish using the Gold for Salt trade.
Trans saharan trade route
What was included in the Feudal exchange of oaths
lord gives the vassal land, the vassal gives (military) service/loyalty)
The bureaucratic system utilized in China where official obtained their positions by demonstrating merit based on performance on what exam?
the Civil Service Exam
(also known as meritocracy)
bonus: this class of scholar bureaucrats was known as the "Scholar Gentry Class"
Arabic terms for empire and emperor.
Caliphate and Caliph
This Budhist Kingdom straddled the straights of Malacca in SE Asia. Name it and how did it make money
Srivijaya/Majahapit and tax the Indo-Chinese trade
This society build bridges to connect their empire
What is the Inca
African storytellers and historians. To see one die is to see a library burn.
What are Griots
A fast ripening and drought resistant strain of rice from Vietnam that was spread to other parts of Asia because of Sinification
What is Champa Rice
City built by the Abbasids that had an incredible library with knowledge from various cultures, leading it to become a major cultural center known as the House of Wisdom. Sacked by the Mongols in 1258.
What is Baghdad
The second kingdom in southern India who took its name from the word for "the victorious city." Practiced Hinduism and was established by two brothers.
What is the Vijayanagar Empire
Aztec agricultural innovation
Chinampas
Instead of a centralized government, communities formed this type of self government
What are Kin Based Networks and/or chiefdoms
describe a political difference between the Byzantine Empire (aka Eastern Roman Empire) and Western Europe
decentralized in the west, central in the east
An efficient internal waterway transportation system that extended over 30,000 miles enabling China under the Song Dynasty to become one of the most populous trading areas in the world
What is the Grand Canal
Enslaved ethnic Turks from Central Asia who served as soldiers and later as bureaucrats. Seized power in Egypt and facilitated trade between Islamic world and Europe of cotton and sugar.
Who are the Mamluks/Mamluk Sultanate
(Bonus: the Seljuks were basically the same thing but in Anatolia, aka modern day Turkey)
Name the two major examples of universalizing religions in South and Southeast Asia
What is Islam, Buddhism,
System that ensured the dominance of the Aztecs on their surrounding areas.
What is a tribute system
This African Kingdom practiced Christianity since the 7th century.
What is Ethiopia
Name of the eastern portion of the roman empire
Byzantine
A syncretic belief system that combines Confucianist rational thought with more abstract ideas of Daoism and Buddhism.
What is Neo-Confucianism
A mystic body of religious practice found mainly within Sunni Islam which focuses on spirituality and ritualism and by finding a direct personal experience with Allah.
What is Sufism
What is interfaith conflict and persecution
System of knotted strings used to record numerical information about trade and engineering and for recording messages to be carried throughout the Incan empire
What is quipu
this would become one of the most powerful of all the East African Kingdoms between the 12th and 15th century, relying heavily on trade with the the Swahil Coast which connected it to the Indian Ocean trade network and noted for its Great Enclosure to house and protect the royal family.
What is Zimbabwe
Name the major branches of Christianity practiced in Europe (and technically the Middle East too) during the middle ages and where each was practiced.
AND for 500pts we've got to make this challenging.
What's the term that means the emperor gets to pick the church leader
Catholic-west
Eastern Orthodox-East