State Building
This Chinese dynasty used Confucianism and a bureaucracy to maintain centralized rule.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This belief system emphasized filial piety and respect for hierarchy in East Asia.
What is Confucianism?
This region saw the rise of the Seljuk Turks after the decline of the Abbasid authority.
What is Dar al-Islam?
This new rice variety increased food production in China.
What is Champa Rice?
Both African and American states relied on this method to gain wealth.
What is tribute or trade?
This political system defined medieval Europe through decentralized authority and land-for-service relationships.
What is feudalism?
This belief system emphasized the importance of the Five Pillars and shaped daily life and law across much of Afro-Eurasia.
What is Islam?
These city-states dominated trade along the Swahili Coast.
What are the Swahili city-states?
These 2 Chinese goods were major exports across Afro-Eurasia.
What are silk and porcelain?
Both Islam and Buddhism spread through this non-military method.
What is missionary activity?
This African state is known for its control of gold trade and impressive stone architecture.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
This belief system in medieval Europe reinforced social hierarchy and supported the authority of monarchs.
What is Christianity?
This Mesoamerican civilization organized itself into powerful city-states rather than a centralized empire.
What is the Maya civilization?
This economic practice allowed medieval states to collect wealth by requiring subjects to give goods or labor rather than money.
What is tribute?
Compare how social hierarchies were structured in Europe and South Asia during this period.
What is feudal hierarchy in Europe versus caste system in South Asia?
This empire governed through a road system and labor tax known as the mit'a.
What is the Inca Empire?
This belief system structured society in South Asia by organizing people into hereditary social groups.
What is Hinduism?
This European system tied peasants to land owned by nobles.
What is manorialism?
This labor system supported agriculture in medieval Europe.
What is serfdom?
Compare the role of religion in political authority in Christian Europe and Islamic states from 1200–1450.
What is rulers using religion to justify power in both regions?
Explain ONE similarity in how states in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas legitimized power.
What is the use of religion, tribute, or monumental architecture to justify rule?
Explain how religion helped rulers maintain power in ONE region from 1200-1450.
What is rulers using religion to legitimize authority (divine right) or unify populations?
Compare political organization in Europe and East Asia during this period.
What is decentralized feudalism vs centralized bureaucracy?
Explain how increased agricultural productivity between 1200 and 1450 contributed to the growth or stability of states.
What is surplus food supporting population growth or urbanization?
Make a historically defensible claim comparing systems of social organization in TWO regions from 1200–1450.
What is a comparative claim using evidence such as caste, feudalism, or religious authority?