China & Philosophy
Silk Roads & Trade
Mongols
Dar al-Islam
Africa & Mali
100
What philosophy emphasized social order and respect for elders?
Confucianism
100
What trade route connected China to Europe?
Silk Roads
100
Who united the Mongols?
Genghis Khan
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100
What was the Abbasid Caliphate’s cultural capital?
Baghdad
100
What resource made Mali wealthy?
Gold and salt
200
What exam system created a bureaucracy based on merit?
Civil Service Exam
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200
Name one good traded along the Silk Roads.
Silk, porcelain, paper, gunpowder, etc
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200
The Mongols created the largest ______ in history.
land empire
200
What was the House of Wisdom?
Center for learning/translation of knowledge
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200
What city was a center of learning in Mali?
Timbuktu
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300
What concept allowed dynasties to justify their rule?
Mandate of Heaven
300
Improvements in business practices that benefited traveling merchants during the silk road
credit and caravanserai
300
How did the Mongols encourage trade along the Silk Roads?
Protected merchants, tolerance, Pax Mongolica
300
Which traveler’s writings give historians much of what we know about Dar al-Islam?
Ibn Battuta
300
What ruler’s pilgrimage to Mecca displayed Mali’s wealth?
Mansa Musa
400
What is the “Dynastic Cycle”?
Rise and fall of ruling families over timE
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400
Name a city that became a Silk Road hub.
Samarkand or Kashgar
400
What weapon/technology did the Mongols famously use?
Composite bow, horseback warfare
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400
What religion united Dar al-Islam?
Islam
400
Define dar-al-islam
Spread of Islam throughout Afroeurasia
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500
What type of government did China develop under dynasties?
Centralized bureaucracy/meritocracy)
500
What innovation allowed merchants to buy goods on credit?
Banking/letters of credit
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500
Name one modern day country the Mongol Empire invaded
Korea, China, Russia , Iran , Mongolia
500
Name one advance from Islamic scholars.
Medicine, astronomy, algebra, preserving Greek/Roman works
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500
Name the reason the Mali Empire declined
Mansa Musa's death