1.1 East Asia
The Chinese dynasty we started this class with
What was the Song Dynasty?
The state that had the most advanced mathematicians and scientists in the year 1200.
What was the Abbasid Caliphate?
What is religion?
The empire whose collapse led to political decentralization
What was the Roman empire?
The continent that still used stone tools and had human sacrifices
What were the Ancient Americas?
The Chinese philosophical system that focuses on Filial Piety and meritocracy, leading to civil service exams
What is Confucianism?
The type of mathematics pioneered in Baghdad by Al-Khwarezmi
What is Algebra?
Islamic missionaries who focused on a personal connection with God
Who are Sufis?
The type of government run by personal loyalty instead of a strong government
What was feudalism?
The major pre-Columbian (Native American) empire in South America's Andes mountains
Who were the Inca?
Introduced from Vietnam and led to population growth, allowing for China to become the most populated country on earth.
What is Champa Rice?
Slave-soldiers who ran Egypt
Who were the Mamluks?
The Dharma is the ___ and ___ idea of the right way of living
What is Hindu and Buddhist?
A count pays homage to the king to keep his land and peasants.
Define homage.
What is an oath of loyalty and service?
The new religion that entered Africa before 1450 CE
What was Islam?
A Dharmic religion that spread from China to other parts of East Asia.
What is Buddhism?
The original source of most of the fields of study that flourished during the Abbasid Caliphate
Movement within Hinduism that relies on a deep, personal connection with one god.
What was the Bhatki movement?
Common language, culture, administrative structures, and cannon law
What was the role of the Catholic Church in Europe?
What was the Mit'a System?
The Mandate of Heaven/Dynastic Cycle
What is the idea that good families get the right to rule from heaven and lose that right when the family becomes corrupt?
The 2 branches of Islam that feuded over who was the rightful Caliph
What is Sunni and Shia Islam?
The system in which one is born to do a certain job and have a certain status due to karma. (This religion is in India)
What was the Hindu Caste System?
A forced laborer who is bound to their land can cannot leave
What is a Serf?
Rulers and councils of ____ were the traditional way of politics in Africa
What were councils of elders?