Trade
Large overland trade route that connected Asia to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
The leader of this conquest would tell his enemies "I am the punishment of God."
Who is Genghis Khan?
Possibly the richest person ever, who made his forturne through mining gold and the slave trade.
Who is Mansa Musa?
The oldest of the Abrahamic religions.
What is Judaism?
The Song Dynasty of this culture invented gunpowder, the printing press, paper money, and compass navigation.
What is China?
A maritime trade route that used reliable, seasonal monsoon winds.
What is the Indian Ocean Basin trade system?
His death in 0 CE started the Christian religion.
Who is Jesus Christ?
His death caused a split in Islam between Sunnis and Shiites.
Who is Muhammad?
A conservative religion from China that taught self disclipline and respect for the family.
What is Confucianism?
This social class was at the bottom of the feudalism hierarchy.
Who are the peasants (serfs)?
Spices, porcelain, silk, and the tea trade were dominated by this state.
What are Chinese trade goods?
A series of wars led by the Catholic Church and Europeans against Muslims that were occupying the "Holy Lands" in the Middle East.
What were the Crusades?
Hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, and others that didn't permanently settle in Mongolia, Central Asia, and around the Black Sea lived this kind of lifestyle.
What are nomads?
This form of Islam focuses on asceticism (severe self disclipline) and myticism (being one with God through meditation and comtemplation).
What is Sufism?
Although isolated from other civilizations and major trade routes, they went on to establish the largest empire in world history behind Genghis Khan.
Who are the Mongols?
The Tong, Song, and Yuan grew powerful, making long distance trade safer.
Who are Chinese Dynasties?
This ended the global system of trade along the Silk Road and the Indian Ocean Basin.
What is the Black Death?
Siddharta's teachings went on to found a religion that challenged the strict caste system and taught that people could reach nirvana in one lifetime.
What is Buddhism?
The Islamic pilgramage that every Muslim must make once a lifetime. The reason Mansa Musa was traveling through Egypt and Northern Africa.
What is Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia)?
Japan, Korea, and Vietnam were heavily influenced by this culture.
What is China?
This civilization protected the Silk Road from bandits and reduced the number of local rulers that collected tributes from trade caravans.
Who are the Mongols?
in 1279, this dynasty was started when the nine year old Song Dynasty emperor drowned in the ocean trying to escape invaders.
What is the Yuan Dynasty (Mongols)?
The founding prophet of Judaism.
Who was Abraham?
A trade-friendly religion that spread quickly over the Indian Ocean Basin.
What is Islam?
The Mongols failed to conquer them because a hurricane or "kamikaze" wind sunk their fleet.
Who are the Japanese?