The Global Tapestry
1200-1450
1200-1450
Type of job that elevated your status in Islamic society during the Abbasid Caliphate
What is Merchant
Inns along trade routes where travelers could trade, rest, and replenish.
What are Caravanserai?
Large multi-ethnic states in Southwest, Central, and South Asia that relied on firearms to conquer and control territories.
What are Gunpowder Empires?
These three new types of ships features new innovations in ship design and allowed Europeans to begin seafaring exploration.
What are Caravels, Junks, Dhows?
Leader of the Mongol Empire who created the largest land-based empire before 1400
Genghis Khan
Under the Abbasid Empire, scholars traveled from far away to Baghdad to study at this renowned center of learning.
What is the House of Wisdom?
At age 21 this Muslim scholar from Morocco set out to see the Muslim world he had read about.
Who is Ibn-Battuta?
The Mughal Empire, under this man's leadership, became one of the richest and best governed states in the world.
Who was Akbar the Great?
This domesticated animal brought from the Europeans to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange may have been the most significant development in the Americas
What is the Horse
Three luxury goods traded along the silk roades
Silk, Porcelain, Ivory
Religion which evolved in China between 770-840 combining rational thoughts with the more abstract ideas of Daoism and Buddhism.
What is Neo-Confucianism
In 1405 the Ming Emperor Yongle sent this Muslim Admiral on the first of seven great voyages which resulted in the transfer of knowledge, culture, technology, and commerce.
Who is Zheng-He?
This empire, located in modern day Iran, did not have a real navy despite being located on the Arabian Sea.
What was the Safavid Empire?
The combination of funds in order to pay for expenses and ventures for a goal of combined profit.
Joint-Stock Companies
Five goods or items exchanged on the Columbian Exchange
List 5
This American civilization did not require a paid tribute but instead implemented the mit'a system (mandatory public service)
Who were the Incas?
A patriarchal belief system that dominated Chinese government and societal structures.
Confucianism
The Devshirme was a practice implemented by this civilization in which Christian boys were made subjects of the empire
Who were the Ottoman's?
The social system created to separate the New World based on ethinicty
The five pillars of Islam
List the 5
Two of the Empires created by the Mongols during their rule in the 1200s
Golden Horde
Yuan Dynasty
Ilkhanate
The development in China in order to make transactions easier as copper became more and more scarce.
Paper Money or Flying Cash
The destruction of this practice in Japan led to the Meiji Restoration and the end of traditional Japanese empires.
Shogun or Shogunate
An example of African syncretism in the new world, prevalent in the Southern United States and Caribbean today.
Voodoo
These two countries are the worst
France and Canada