1.1 East Asia
1.2 Dar al-Islam
1.3 South & Southeast Asia
1.4 Americas
1.5 Africa
1.6 Europe
2.1 The Silk Roads
2.3 Indian Ocean Trade
2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade
2.2 The Mongols
2.5 Culture & Trade
2.6 Environment & Trade
100
The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. Its revival helped lead to the commercialization of Song China
What is The Grand Canal?
100
TRUE or FALSE: The Abbasid Caliphate was extremely centralized, unified, and politically stable between 1200 and 1450.
What is FALSE?
100
This trade route served as an important role in history, and has been a key factor in East-West exchanges. Long distance, long established trade in dhows and sailboats made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations stretching from Java in the East to Zanzibar and Mombasa in the West.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
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100
Floating gardens constructed along lake shores by the Mexica/Aztecs to increase agricultural yields.
What are chinampas?
100
What are TWO natural resources that allowed Africa to prosper during the period 1200 to 1450?
What is gold, salt, and ivory?
100
A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule; ultimately spread culture, technology, and increased trade but were not successful
What are the Crusades?
100
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Silk Roads?
What is Buddhism?
100
What was ONE of the most prominant products traded out of India on the Indian Ocean trade routes?
What are Textiles, Cotton, Peppers, Spices, Pearls?
100
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
What is Islam?
100
What was the name of the leader of the Mongols?
Who is Ghengis (Chinggis) Khan?
100
Scholars from this religion played a major role in preserving and spreading mathematical and scientific knowledge.
Who are Islamic Scholars?
100
What disease led to a massive decline in the urban populations?
What is the Bubonic Plague?
200
A Chinese philosophy that shows the way to ensure a stable government, rigid hierarchy, filial piety, and an orderly society in the present world and stresses a moral code of conduct.
What is Confucianism?
200
What is one thing that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism have in common?
What is Monotheism, People of the Book, Same Holy Lands?
200
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controlled a small area of northern India.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
200
Means "people of the sun". Established by Pachacuti. Existed in modern-day Peru. Agriculture based economy with limited regional trading. Mita system established dominance. Advanced farming and building technologies. Religion was highly influential.
What are the Inca?
200
A long established trade route that led to the transit of goods between West African, the northern Arab, and European worlds. Goods included precious metals, such as gold, as well as slaves.
What are the Trans-Saharan Trade Routes?
200
A coerced, agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on their lord's estate
What is a serf?
200
What places were at the TWO ends of the Silk Roads?
What is Europe and China?
200
Where are TWO places Islam spread to due to trade on the Indian Ocean?
What is India, Southeast Asia, China?
200
What region was the Trans-Saharan empire located in and what is one empire that directly benefited from it?
What is North and West Africa: Mali, Ghana, Songhai?
200
How did the Mongols treat the religions of the people they conquered?
What is toleration?
200
A dispersion of people from their homeland. At this time period, it was mostly merchant communities of Muslims in India and Southeast Asia
What is a Diaspora?
200
What is one major crop that spread as a result of increased global trade?
What are bananas, champa rice, sugar, citrus, yams?
300
Quick-maturing agricultural development that can allow two harvests in one growing season; led to increased populations in Song Dynasty China. Originally introduced via trade routes to Vietnam from India, and later to China
What is Champa Rice?
300
Large Islamic-based Library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus of conversion of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Preserved knowledge.
What is the House of Wisdom?
300
This highly traded and delicious product allowed for the rise of many Southeast Asian states (such as the Srivijaya and Majapahit in Indonesia, and the Khmer in Cambodia)
What are spices?
300
Name ONE North American (not central American) native tribe.
Who are the Pueblo, Mississippi River Valley Civilization/Cahokia?
300
This man was an Islamic king of Mali and is known to be the richest man who ever lived.
Who is Mansa Musa?
300
A POLITICAL system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
What is Feudalism?
300
What were TWO commercial technologies that increased trade on the Silk Roads?
What is flying cash, paper money, banking houses, bills of exchange (credit)?
300
The islands of modern day Malaysia and Indonesia got this nickname because of their most precious commodity.
What are the Spice Islands?
300
What were TWO land-based technologies that improved transportation on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
What are saddles, caravans, camels, caravanserai?
300
How did the Mongols promote trade and what trade route was primarily impacted by their rule?
Provided protection on the Silk Road.
300
What THREE religions spread mostly through the Indian Ocean trade?
What is Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism?
300
What environmental factor was the most significant for the success of Indian Ocean merchants?
What are monsoon winds?
400
A meritocratic practice that Chinese bureaucrats needed to pass to serve in state, based on Confucian concepts,
What is the Civil Service Exam?
400
An Islamic mystical tradition that desired a personal union with God--divine love through intuition rather than through rational deduction and study of the Shari'a. Followed an ascetic routine (denial of physical desire to gain a spiritual goal), dedicating themselves to fasting, prayer, meditation on the Qur'an, and the avoidance of sin.
What is Sufism?
400
Governments in South and Southeast Asia used this to justify their rule.
What is Hinduism (Khmer, Majahapit), Islam (Dehli Sultanate, Sultanate of Malacca), Buddhism (Srivijaya)?
400
An economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced; men and women were expected to contribute this labor to the state yearly
What is the Mita System?
400
A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E. Known for its cone-shaped towers, large palaces, large walls, and stone homes.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
400
Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming ESTATES where lords and peasants shared the land
What is Manorialism?
400
What were THREE of the most prominent products coming from China on the Silk Roads (besides silk)?
What is tea, rice, gunpowder, porcelain, paper?
400
What are THREE maritime technologies that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
What is the Stern Rudder, Lateen Sail, Astrolabe, Magnetic Compass, Junk, Dhow?
400
Cluster of city states that actively participated in Indian Ocean trade along the East coast of the African continent
What are the Swahili City States?
400
What group in China brought an end to the Mongols and what was the name of the new dynasty they formed?
What is the White Lotus Society and Ming Dynasty?
400
What is one benefit and one consequence of the European Crusades?
Benefit is that it increased European knowledge of other cultures and scientific progress. Consequence is the spread of bubonic plague (although it mostly came from Mongol trade routes from fleas on rats).
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Name one EMPIRE from the following places during the period 1200-1450: West Africa, Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia
West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai / Middle East: Abbasids and Ilkhan Empire / South Asia: Delhi Sultanate and Chagatai Khanate / East Asia: Song, Mongol, Yuan, Ming
500
What is one thing that Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared in common during the period 1200 to 1450?
All were culturally influenced by China.
500
Who are TWO groups who posed a challenge to the Abbasid Caliphate AND where did they come from?
Who are the 1. Mamluks from Egypt, 2. Seljuk Turks from Central Asia, 3. Crusaders from Europe, 4. Mongols from China?
500
What are TWO similarities between the spread of Islam and Buddhism?
What is 1. Spread along traded routes, including Indian Ocean Network 2. Changed as it spread 3. Challenges the caste system 4. More rights for women.
500
What are TWO ways the Maya were different than the Inca and Aztecs?
What is 1. Maya were in central America, while Mexica in Mexico and Inca in Peru 2. Aztecs and Inca acquired power through conquest 3. Mayans collapsed due to environmental overuse 4. Mayans were a collection of city-states rather than an empire?
500
What historical group is most responsible for the spread of Islam in Africa?
Who are Muslim Merchants?
500
This European medieval farming technique Mr. Blaisdell still uses on his garden at home. This greatly increased agricultural output in Europe during the High Middle Ages.
What is the Three Field System?
500
At the end of the Silk Roads in northern Europe, Germanic and Scandanavian cities formed this commerical trade alliance to protect the area from pirates.
What is the Hanseatic League?
500
What were FOUR areas connected by the Indian Ocean trade?
What is East Africa to Middle East to India to Southeast Asia to China?
500
What were THREE of the most prominent products traded on the Trans-Saharan trade routes?
What is gold, salt, ivory, and slaves?
500
What were TWO of the empires the Mongols split into after the death of Genghis Khan AND where were they located?
What is Ilkhan Empire (Middle East), Golden Horde (Central Asia), Chagatai Khanate (North of India), and Yuan Dynasty (China)?
500
Who are THREE famous explorers and what routes did they explore?
Who are Marco Polo (Silk Roads), Ibn Battuta (Trans-Saharan), and Zheng He (Indian Ocean)?
500
Great Zimbabwe, the Mayas, and areas of feudal Europe all struggled due to this common environmental cause.
What is deforestation?
