Trade
This land route connects Asia to Europe.
The Silk Road
Though different in a number of ways, Islam shares much of its religious doctrine with these two major religions.
Christianity and Judaism
What is one invention/ technological innovation Europeans adopted from Asia?
Answers will vary
This Chinese Empire was renowned
for its technological, cultural and artistic achievement,
but it was conquered by the Mongols.
Song
What food from Vietnam allowed the Chinese population to grow rapidly?
Champa Rice
Mansa Musa, famous for his opulently
gold-funded pilgrimage to Mecca,
was the king of this African kingdom.
Mali
What is the Umma?
The community of all believers, which replaced tribal, ethnic, or racial identities
By killing around a third of Europe’s population
in the 1300s, the Black Death had this long-lasting
effect on European society and economics.
Increased demand for labor /
an increase in interest in mechanical power
Following the Mongol conquest of Russia,
many people began moving away from Kiev
and toward this newly powerful city.
Moscow
Early Ming emperors hated their Mongol \
predecessors; this was their response
to the fact that Mongols controlled Central Asia.
They cut off trade with and
immigration from other areas
What religion was introduced into East Africa through the Indian Ocean trading system?
Islam
The split between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims occurred as a result of
Disagreement over leadership succession issues.
This is the name given to the
military campaigns that drove
the Muslims out of Spain and Portugal.
The Reconquista
This was one of the biggest side-effects of the Mongol facilitation of trade across Asia.
The spread of diseases (especially the Black Death)
Unsuccessful Mongol invasions of Japan had this important side-effect on Japanese politics.
Japan was unified under a
more centralized government
to face the Mongol threat
This language spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa and is the foundation of many modern African languages.
Bantu
The Mongols destroyed the ______________ caliphate.
Abbasid
In 1453 this important city was conquered,
upsetting the balance of power within
the Christian Church, and demonstrating
the effectiveness of gunpowder artillery.
Constantinople
This powerful figure rose to prominence in
Central Asia in the late 1300s, conquering
the successor states to the Il-khanate
as well as the Delhi Sultanate.
Timur
What is one similarity between Buddhism and Hinduism?
Answers will vary
Participation in the Indian Ocean
maritime trade network, which stretched
from China to the eastern coast of Africa,
required mastery of this phenomenon.
Monsoon Winds
What is Sufism?
An understanding of the Islamic faith that saw the worldly success of Islamic civilization as a distraction and deviation from the purer spirituality of Muhammad’s time. By renouncing the material world, meditating on the words of the Quran, chanting the names of God, using music and dance, and venerating Muhammad and various “saints,” Sufis pursued an interior life, seeking to tame the ego and achieve spiritual union with Allah.
Feudalism and manoralism were different in which of the following ways?
Feudalism was a political system while manorialism was an economic system.
The Mongols
a)Failed in their campaign against Southwest Asian territories
b)Brought foreign administrators into China
c)Expanded their rule into Japan in the thirteenth century
d)Persecuted Christians within their empire.
e)Encouraged intermarriage between themselves and the Chinese
B
This was why Chinese interest in large naval
expeditions such as Zheng He’s
were not continued by the Ming emperors.
Resources were used to defend against
nomads in the north and west instead.