The Americas before 1492
The first humans to migrate into the Americas made their way down this coast after crossing from Asia.
What is the west coast?
Muslim universities built in Dar al Islam.
What were Madrasas?
What is Persia?
Religious.
What is non-secular?
Control by men of a disproportionately large share of power.
What is patriarchy?
The same, not diverse.
What is homogenous?
This plant (that was made into a beverage), native to Central America, was considered the drink of the gods to Native American peoples.
What is chocolate from the cacao bean?
Commodity that was transported across the Sahara Desert, food preservative, difficult to mine.
What is salt?
Present day Spain and Portugal.
What is the Iberian peninsula?
Non-religious.
What is secular?
One whose native language is Arabic. Before the spread of Islam and, with it, the Arabic languny of the Arabic-speaking peoples language, including the vast region from Mauritania, on the Atlantic coast of Africa, to southwestern Iran, including the entire Maghrib of North Africa, Egypt and Sudan, the Arabian Peninsula, and Syria and Iraq.
What is an Arab?
Diverse, having variety.
What is heterogenous?
This agricultural product will become a staple of indigenous peoples of the Americas.
What is corn aka maize?
In "1001 Inventions", we learn that the inventions and discoveries from North Africa to China during the period circa the 7th-14th centuries were not included or acknowledged in Western education. This leads to this problem with the history that is learned.
What is historical amnesia?
Present day Turkey. The Black Sea borders this region to the north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
What is Anatolia?
These were rest stops along trade routes to safely house merchants, their animals (camels, horses), and were places of great cultural exchange.
What were caravanserais?
A smaller group within a larger religious group, typically used to describe different Christian groups. Some of the oldest examples are Roman Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Orthodox, and Ethiopian Christians.
What are denominations?
Any area that referenced Asia was often referred to this direction.
What is the East?
Mesoamerican buildings were designed specifically to incorporate all six of these, so they were lined up with the sun and moon, and served as calendars also.
What are all six directions?
Three types of architectural evidence that exist to the greatness of Africa's cities and kingdoms in the post-classical period (600 ce to 1200 ce).
What are stone palaces, churches, mosques, libraries, books, and artwork (such as the Benin Bronze masks, paintings, and mosaics (tilework)?
The region of the Middle East that borders the Mediterranean Sea including present day Israel, Palestinian settlements (what's left of them), Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
What is the Levant?
A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. For example, a blacksmith or a goldsmith.
What is an artisan?
Northwestern Africa, the Berbers were one group from this region that is very close to the Iberian peninsula and Straight of Gibraltar.
What is the Maghreb?
The order in which people take over a position, title, or throne, or the right to do so. Problems with this issue are a common theme in world history.
What is succession?
Similar in size and construction to ones built in Egypt, indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica built these huge structures.
What are pyramids?
King of the Empire of Mali, went on his Hajj (Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) and spent a ton of gold on the way. He was quite possibly the wealthiest man to ever live.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Region in Southern Spain/Iberia.
What is Andalusia?
People whose lifestyle, location, and settlements are focused on the keeping or grazing of sheep or cattle. Examples include the Berbers, Mongols and Turkic peoples.
What is pastoral?
Term that describes places and people that follow (and tolerate) different many different religions.
What is religious pluralism?
Broken or separated into distinct parts.
What is fragmented?
Planned city near present day Mexico city that had floating gardens, castles, causeways, canals, and irrigation systems.
What was Tenochtitlan?
The remains of these animals which were central to the wealth of Great Zimbabwe can be found in abundance on the land where they once were raised and grazed extensively.
What are cattle?
Islam first made it way to India and Indonesia due to Muslims merchants from the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa crossing this ocean and bringing their new faith with them.
What is the Indian Ocean?
A leader with the title Shah or Caliph indicate that they are followers of this religion.
What is Islam?
A belief or characteristics of a society that demonstrate human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs.
What is egalitarian?
The Eastern Roman Empire; empire ( a. d. 395-1453) in SE Europe & SW Asia, formed by the division of the Roman Empire: cap. Constantinople; Religious leader was the Eastern Christian Orthodox Church, the leader was called the Patriarch.
What is the Byzantine Empire?n