EAST ASIA
This Chinese dynasty ruled from 960–1279 and experienced major economic and technological growth.
What is The Song Dynasty
This religion connected societies across much of Southwest Asia, North Africa, and parts of South and Southeast Asia.
What is Islam
This religion originated in South Asia and spread throughout much of Asia.
Buddhism
This major civilization developed in Mesoamerica and was known for its cities, writing system, mathematics, and astronomy.
The Maya
China and Europe both developed social hierarchies. Name one important difference between how those hierarchies worked.
China emphasized a Confucian social hierarchy and bureaucracy, while Europe relied heavily on feudal and manorial relationships.
This agricultural innovation from Southeast Asia helped China increase its food production and population.
Champa rice
This group of Islamic mystics played an important role in spreading Islam through personal relationships and missionary activity.
The Sufis
This movement emphasized personal devotion to a particular Hindu deity.
The Bhakti movement
This civilization developed a large state in the Andes Mountains.
The Inca
What was one major way religion helped rulers maintain political authority?
Religion could legitimize rulers, unite populations, establish laws/social expectations, or provide justification for political authority.
This philosophical tradition emphasized hierarchy, filial piety, education, and respect for authority.
Confucianism
This institution in Baghdad became famous as a center of scholarship and translation.
The House of Wisdom
This South Asian empire became a major center of Hindu political and cultural power.
The Vijayanagara Empire
This massive settlement in present-day Illinois demonstrates the development of complex societies in North America.
Cahokia
A historian argues that trade was important to the spread of religion between 1200 and 1450. Give two pieces of evidence that could support this argument.
Examples include the spread of Islam through Muslim merchants, Buddhism along Asian trade routes, and cultural exchange in Southeast Asia.
The Song government used this system to recruit educated officials and staff its bureaucracy.
The civil service examination system
Although the Abbasid Caliphate weakened politically, this continued to connect many societies across the Islamic world.
Islamic culture/religion and trade networks
Why were Southeast Asian states heavily influenced by religions originating elsewhere?
Trade networks connected Southeast Asia to India, China, and the Islamic world, allowing religions and cultural practices to spread.
This African city became wealthy through trade and is famous for its massive stone structures.
Great Zimbabwe
Which statement best explains why states developed differently between 1200 and 1450?
A. All societies had access to the same technologies.
B. Geography, culture, religion, and existing political traditions shaped state development.
C. Religion had little influence on governments.
D. Trade prevented states from developing independently.
B
Explain two ways the Song Dynasty's economic growth changed Chinese society.
Include increased trade, urbanization, commercialization, use of money, growth of merchant classes, increased production, and population growth.
A merchant travels from North Africa to India and encounters Muslim communities along the way. What does this demonstrate about how Islam spread?
Islam spread through trade networks and merchants, in addition to conquest and missionary activity.
Compare the spread of Islam in South Asia with the spread of Buddhism in East or Southeast Asia. Give one similarity and one difference.
Similarities could include trade and missionary activity. Differences could include the regions, groups, and political circumstances through which each religion spread.
Name two ways geography influenced the development of states in either the Americas or Africa.
Answers could include mountains, deserts, rivers, fertile land, climate, transportation challenges, or access to trade routes.
Which of the following correctly compares political organization in Song China and medieval Europe?
A. Both relied primarily on decentralized feudal relationships.
B. Song China relied on a centralized bureaucracy, while medieval Europe was more politically decentralized and relied heavily on feudal relationships.
C. Song China was politically decentralized, while European monarchs controlled a centralized civil service.
D. Both societies used civil service examinations to select government officials.
B