Empires
This Islamic caliphate practiced the Sunni sect of Islam.
What are the Umayyads
These are the two sects of Islam after the death of Muhammad.
What are the Sunni and Shi'ite?
These were the 5 major trade routes of the Post Classical Era.
What were the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, Trans-Saharan, Andean Mountains, Mediterranean?
This leader of one of the steppe people united them using stirrups.
Who is Genghis Kahn?
The Chinese dynasties expanded into the following 3 areas during the Sui and Tang dynasties.
What are Korea, Vietnam, and Tibet?
This Islamic Gunpowder Empire unified using the Shi'ite sect of Islam.
What are the Safavids.
This was the faith of Byzantium and eventually the Kievan Rus.
What was the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith?
These places in Africa helped to diffuse ideas and goods from the Indian Ocean trade route.
What are the East African port cities?
This steppe people conquered the Northern Song forcing the Song to create a Southern kingdom.
This was the project that the Incas forced conquered people into in their empire.
What was the mita?
This Persian empire spread throughout the Middle East and practiced Zoroastrianism.
What is the Sassanid Empire.
This was the mixture of Buddhism and Confucianism in the Sui and Tang dynasties in China.
What was Neo-Confucianism?
This group reopened and protected the Silk Roads.
Who are the Mongols?
This steppe people invaded into the Middle East conquering Byzantium and creating the conditions for the Crusades.
Who are the Turks?
This Korean empire allied with the Tang to win its civil war but was then forced to pay tribute to the Tang.
What was the Silla Kingdom?
This Turkish leader led the largest Islamic Gunpowder Empire.
Suleiman the Great.
Who are Bakr, Uthman, Umar, Ali
This Islamic explorer used the Trans-Saharan trade route to document how Islam had spread into African communities.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
This group of steppe people were conquered by the Mongols and then went out and conquered Russia.
Who is the Golden Horde?
The Ottoman empire had this military advantage over its European and Safavid rivals.
What is a navy?
This empire spread the Islamic religion throughout the Trans-Saharan trade route.
What is Mali.
This was the faith formed in Northern India that merged Hinduism and Islam in the hopes of creating peace.
What was Sikhism?
This European organization in the states above the Mediterranean protected European trade from pirates and regulated fair trade.
What is the Hanseatic League?
This Mongol leader captured China and formed the Yuan dynasty known for its technological innovations.
Who is Kublai Khan?
The Mongols conquered so many kingdoms and villages using what "social" appeal or technique.
What is an appeal to serfs against landowners.