Song Dynasty China
13th Century Korea, Japan &Vietnam
Dar-al-Islam
Periphery of Dar-al-Islam
the Silk Road
100
The Song dynasty used this test to select the best and brightest to serve in the bureacracy.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
100
This is the main reason that Japan was less influenced by Song China than Korea or Vietnam.
Because it is an island nation and physically separate from Asia.
100
Islam, Christianity and Judaism are these type of religions.
What is Monotheistic (Monotheism)?
What is Abrahamic?
100
South Asia, in the 1200s was primarily this religion.
What is Hindu (Hinduism)?
100
This product was invented in China and it spread along the Silk Road. Initially it was used by the Chinese in fireworks, but later European used it to make weapons.
What is gunpowder?
200
This very large canal connected the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.
What is the Grand Canal?
200
Unlike in Song China, these men were not allowed to take the Civil Service Exam.
Who are the peasants?
(Who are the poor?)
200
Islam began in this city in what is today Saudi Arabia?
What is Mecca (Makkah)?
200
Turkic-speaking Muslims conquered and ruled the region and made their capital this city.
What is Delhi?
200
This animal facilitated trade across the Sahara, Arabian and Gobi deserts.
What are camels?
300
This type of rice, originally grown in India and Vietnam, allowed for two harvests in a year and was drought-resistant.
What is Champa rice?
300
Japan existed under this type of system, similar to Europe at this time.
What is Feudalism?
300
Islam was largely spread throughout Afro-Eurasia through conquest and through this practice.
What is trade?
300
Islam and trade were spread throughout the Indian Ocean primarily on ships with this type of sail.
What is a lateen sail?
300
Aside from silk, this was one of the main luxury goods that traveled from East to West to feed Roman demands.
What is porcelain (also: paper, tea or bronze)
400
These "skilled craftworkers" produced items such as iron weapons, silk clothing and porcelain.
What are artisans?
400
This type of family structure was much more common in Vietnam in the 1200s than it was in China.
What is a nuclear family?
400
Islam was also spread through trade along the Silk Road, across the Sahara desert and through maritime trade in this Ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
400
Islamic merchants sailed far throughout the Indian ocean and spread the faith to this archipelago country. It is today the world's most populous Islamic-majority country.
What is Indonesia?
400
This was one of the main luxury goods that traveled from West to East along the Silk Road.
What is glass? (or leather, fruit, honey, wool)
500
Song China became extremely wealthy because of internal and external trade, but also because of this system where rulers of other nations paid money to the Emperor of China.
What is the tributary system?
500
Landowning aristocrats in Japanese society.
Who are the daimyo?
500
The literal translation of Dar-al-Islam.
What is the house (or abode) of Islam?
500
This is the name for Spain under Islamic rule from the year 711 to the year 1492. It ended with the Conquest of the last Islamic city of Granada by Catholic forces under Spanish King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
What is Al-Andalus?
500
The capture of this city in 1453 effectively ended European access to goods from China and the Silk Road.
What is Constantinople?
600
The Song Chinese Dynasty achieved a period of this. It was a time before worldwide industrialization. In China it involved trade and artisans making large amounts of quality goods they could sell.
What is proto-industrialization?
600
This practice of having more than one wife was common in Song China but was frowned upon in Vietnam in the same time period.
What is polygyny?
600
This group of people from Central Asia effectively ended the rule of the Abbasid Caliphate and took over the diffusion of Islam.
Who are the Seljuk Turks?
600
The Delhi Sultanate was an Islamic-ruled Hindu-majority empire in Northern India. This empire was a Hindu-ruled, Hindu-majority empire in Southern India.
What was the Vijanagara Empire?
600
This disease also spread from East to West along the Silk Road and killed millions of people in the 14th Century.
What is the Black Plague? (or Black Death or Bubonic Plague)