Global Tapestry Week 1
Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India, it was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part of the tributary system.)
Champa Rice
money with wings
Flying money
system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other luxury trade goods; known for spreading religions such as Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam as well as technological transfers (gunpowder, paper, the compass from China to the West) and diseases like the Bubonic plague
Silk Roads
connected Africa, South Asia (India), Southeast Asia and China.; world's' richest maritime trading network in the 13th and 14th centuries - spread of goods, technology (compass, rudder, astrolabe), and religions like Islam and Buddhism
Indian Ocean trade
class of salaried warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble called a daimyo (who in turned pledged loyalty to a shogun) in return for land or rice payments
samurai
Descendants of the Prophet Muhammad's uncle, al-Abbas, they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate and ruled an Islamic empire from their capital in Baghdad (founded 762) from 750 to 1258.
Abbasid Caliphate
when kids show respect to their parents
Filial Piety
legal currency issued on paper; it developed in China as a convenient alternative to metal coins; facilitated trade
Paper money
trade routes across the Sahara Desert; traded gold, enslaved peoples, ivory and salt; camels, camel caravans, and camel saddles were crucial in the development of these trade networks; facilitated the spread of Islam and linked West Africa to Mecca for participation in the hajj
trans-Saharan trade
the idea that monarchs are God's representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God.
Divine Right
The first Islamic government established within India from 1206-1520. Controled a small area of northern India and was centered in Delhi.
Delhi Sultanate
the official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine churches that occurred in 1054
Great Schism
Chinese invention that aided navigation by showing which direction was north; use spread through trade networks like Silk Roads and Indian Ocean trade
magnetic compass
steering device, usually a vertical blade attached to a post at, or near, the stern of the boat; improved sea trade
rudder
system of government in which the head of state is a hereditary position and the king or queen has almost complete power
absolute monarchy
An empire formed by Turkish and Persian Sunnis, lasting from 1037 to 1194 A.D.
Seljuk Empire
A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E.
Great Zimbabwe
thin, beautiful pottery invented in China; highly desired luxury good traded along the Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade networks
Porcelain
large flat-bottom sailing ship produced in the Tang and Song Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel and participation in the tribute system
junk ship
mausoleum (tomb) in India built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan; completed in 1649 in memory of his favorite wife; illustrates syncretic blend between Indian and Arabic architectural styles as well as Islamic influences with calligraphy from the Quran
Taj Mahal
The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Grand Canal in China
Mississippian settlement near present-day East St. Louis, home to as many as 25,000 Native Americans
Cahokia
seasonal wind in India, the winter monsoon brings hot, dry weather and the summer monsoon brings rain
monsoon winds
a central Asian city where the western and the eastern Silk Roads met; one of the westernmost cities of China, near the border with modern day Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan.
Kashgar
Mughal empire's taxation system where decentralized lords collected tribute/taxes for the emperor
zamindars