Belief Systems
Jews, Muslims, and Christians all worship one god. This belief is called what?
What is monotheism?
Venetian traveler Marco Polo wrote about trade across Asia under this empire’s rule.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Islam spread to Southeast Asia primarily through this type of trade.
What is the (Indian Ocean) trade?
This was the Aztec capital city.
What is Tenochtitlán?
This religion spread from India to Japan by 800 CE.
What is Buddhism?
These three religions originated in the Middle East.
What are Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?
Name the Mongols ended the Song dynasty in China and established their own.
What is the Yuan dynasty?
The Inca kept their empire connected using this innovation.
What are well-constructed roads?
The Inca used these animals to help with transport in their mountainous empire.
What are llamas?
The Mongols helped spread both gunpowder and this deadly disease across Eurasia.
What is the Black Death?
After 750 CE, this religion spread more through trade and cultural exchange than conquest.
What is Islam?
One impact of early trade networks, specifically a change in economic systems
change from barter to a monetary system
The type of power the Aztecs had in thier trade systems
What is central power?
This staple crop was central to civilizations in both Mesoamerica and the Andes.
What is maize (corn)?
The Aztecs created a writing system that differed from this Incan method of record-keeping.
What are quipus?
Sub-Saharan trade influenced this religion by helping it spread into West Africa.
What is Islam?
This city in Mali became famous as a center of Islamic learning and trade.
What is Timbuktu?
Name an environmental feature used in India Ocean trade.
What are monsoon winds?
The Aztecs were heavily influenced by this earlier civilization’s mythology.
Who were the Toltecs?
Name one major crop that spread across regions through trade between 1200–1450.
What are champa rice, citrus fruits, or bananas?
By 800 CE, this religion had spread across much of Eurasia, while Christianity primarily spread in Europe.
What is Buddhism?
The period of peace and stability that allowed Silk Road trade to thrive under the Mongols.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
The Indian Ocean trade network is an example of what kind of trade network.
What is a maritime network?
This Andean empire used terrace farming and irrigation systems to grow crops in the mountains.
What is the Inca Empire?
This is the term for blending of cultural traditions that often occurred through trade networks.
What is syncretism (cultural diffusion)?