Americas
East Asia
Rise of Islam
West African Empires
Vocabulary
100

The location of the Incas and the Aztecs

What are the Andes Mountains and the swamps in Mexico/Mesoamerica?

100
A time period during which one family rules
What is a dynasty?
100

Mecca

What is the birthplace of Islam?

100

The most valuable resource held by West African Empires AND the most valuable resource they traded for

What are gold and salt?

100
An oral historian
What is a griot?
200

Three ways their religions were similar

What are:

polytheistic

nature-based gods

using sacrifice to gods

200

The true military power in Japan, not the emperor.

Who is the shogun?

200

The three core Muslim texts we studied

What are the Hadith, Qur'an, and Constitution of Medina?

200

The religion that spread through trans-Saharan trade

What is Islam?

200
a Japanese warrior, bound to a code of honor
What is a samurai?
300

Ways that Aztecs and Incas adapted to geography

What are

Aztecs: chinampas, building boats

Incas: terraced farming, road system, messengers

300
Silk Road
What is the trading route that connected China to the rest of Asia and Europe?
300
The five pillars of Islam
What are the hajj, faith, five prayers a day, fasting during Ramadan, charity?
300

Three effects of Mansa Musa's hajj.

What are...?

Mali: The spread of Islam, building mosques and schools, increasing its reputation, building Timbuktu as a trade hub

The world: inflation of gold in Egypt, increased reputation of Mali in the rest of the world, creating Mali as a target for invasion in the rest of the world

300

Floating gardens built by the Aztecs

What are chinampas?

400

The structure of governments and how they are different

What is a monarchy?

Differences: Incas had a much more organized hierarchy with officials for small groups of people and regional governors.

400
The belief that an emperor should not make too many laws to regulate his people.
What is Daoism?
400

Views on treatment of Jews and Christians

What are the belief that these people should be respected (as fellow monotheists) but not taken as allies?

400
The religious differences between Sunni Ali and Askia Mohammed.
The true embrace of Islam (Askia) vs. the failure to show proper respect for Islam or label it the official religion (Sunni Ali).
400

A type of government where there are different levels and each has different responsibilities.

What is a bureaucracy?

500

Differences in the treatment of conquered people

What are capturing POWs to become slaves and sacrificed (Aztecs) and integrating conquered people to lead their own villages and provide mita (labor) to the government (Incas)?

500
Order of classes in Japanese society
What are the peasants, samurai, daimyo, emperor, and shogun?
500
The difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims
What is the disagreement about how the successor should be? Descendant of Muhammad (Shia) vs. follower of Islam (Sunni)
500

The chronological order of West African empires and three similarities between them.

What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai? All trade based, All influenced by Islam, Same geographical area, Same resources, Same general political structure

500

The social and economic system which revolves around the ownership and use of land in exchange for service

What is feudalism?
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