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Mongols!!!!!!!!!!!!!
100
The "Golden Age" of Islam began with this caliphate, who rose in the Middle East.
Who are the Abbasids
100
This animal was crucial to desert travel in caravans.
What is the camel?
100
These are the "floating islands" utilized by the Aztecs that enabled them to grow crops in swampland.
What are chinampas?
100
These African empires emerged as the salt, gold and slave trade boomed along the Trans-Saharan roads.
What are Mali and Ghana?
100
This ideology has been foundational to China since the Han period; its major value is filial piety.
What is Confucianism?
100
This universal religion has 5 pillars; making a pilgrimage, or hajj, to Mecca is one of them.
What is Islam?
100
This man, originally Temujin, united the Mongol tribes into one united kingdom by 1206.
Genghis Khan
200
This group of pastoralists were once enslaved by the Abbasids; they not only rose to power, but successfully spread Islamic rule into several sultanates.
Who are the Turks?
200
While the Silk and Sand Roads focused primarily on luxury goods, the Sea Roads focused on luxury and THIS type of good since ships could carry far more.
What are bulk goods?
200
The Incas, despite their many advancements, did not have a written language. What did they use instead for record-keeping purposes?
What are quipu?
200
These city-states were originally small agricultural villages on the eastern coast of Africa; when the Sea Roads in the Indian Ocean expanded, they did too.
What are the Swahili city-states?
200
Song China had a HUGE population. However, it's important to note that this population was supported mostly through agriculture made possible by THIS class of people.
Who are the peasants?
200
This universal religion does not focus on a god or gods; "enlightenment" is reached through divesting oneself from desire.
What is Buddhism?
200
This is the term for the secured, peaceful period during which the Mongols ruled over the Silk Roads.
Pax Mongolica
300
This is the tax that non-Muslims would pay within any of the caliphates or sultanates. Many converted to Islam to avoid paying this tax (among other reasons).
What is the jizya?
300
This nontheistic religion originally met resistance in China when it diffused there from India, but over time, it syncretized with Confucianism to form Neo-Confucianism.
What is Buddhism?
300
Both the Incas and the Aztecs believed in animism: belief that animate and inanimate objects had spirits. Which inanimate object did they believe was the ultimate power?
What is the sun god?
300
This religion spread across Africa relatively peacefully, often merging with earlier animistic beliefs (i.e., ancestor worship and belief in nature spirits).
What is Islam?
300
This practice, found especially among elite women, physically restricted the movement of women and symbolized the patriarchal nature of Confucianism.
What is footbinding?
300
This polytheistic religion is native to India and really only spread to parts of SE Asia. It's beliefs form the basis of the Indian caste system.
What is Hinduism?
300
The Mongols sacked this city on their way to taking over Persia.
Baghdad
400
This is the name of the famous university found in Baghdad, where scholars translated and transcribed thousands of Greek and Roman texts for preservation.
What is the House of Wisdom?
400
This example of biological diffusion between SE Asia and E Asia led to a SERIOUS population increase in Song China by 1200 C.E.
What is champa rice?
400
The uniting cultural force in Western Europe was this universal religion, which posited that good deeds would get you to heaven. They even fought holy wars because of it!
What is Christianity?
400
This Moroccan writer chronicled many of his travels throughout the Dar al-Islam, especially in West and East Africa.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
400
This is the most important export China produced, a product that was in extremely high demand by 1450 C.E. across Afro-Eurasia.
What is silk?
400
This monotheistic religion originated in the Middle East, and it formed the basis of later religions like Christianity and Islam. Its believers believe they are "chosen" and maintain a covenant, or agreement, with Yahweh.
What is Judaism?
400
The Mongols only partially adopted this system; they made sure the Chinese still had to follow it if they wanted a position in the bureaucracy.
civil service examination
500
This group of Muslims believed in maintaining a mystic connection with Allah, and they often acted as missionaries, particularly in Eurasia.
Who are the Sufis?
500
These communities, such as the multiple Jewish ones along the Mediterranean, formed as trade networks expanded given the rise in commercialization and ease of travel.
What are diasporic merchant communities?
500
What Western European social system is pictured here? 
What is feudalism?
500
This HUGE city in Mali housed mosques, universities, and lots of commerce.
What is Timbuktu?
500
China utilized this as a method of reinforcing its superiority in trade relations; other countries would "kowtow," or bow, and bring them gifts to maintain trade.
What is the tribute system?
500
When Buddhism spread across the Silk Roads, the religion itself changed. This form of Buddhism began to depict the Buddha almost as a god.
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
500
The Mongols met their fate as a result of this, which decimated a huge percentage of all of Afro-Eurasia.
The Black Plague