Indian Ocean Basin & SE Asia
What was ONE of the most prominant products traded out of India on the Indian Ocean trade routes?
Textiles, Cotton, Peppers, Spices, Pearls
What major religion was mostly spread by merchants along the Trans-Saharan trade network?
Islam
What disease led to a massive decline in the urban populations?
Bubonic Plague
Scholars from this religion played a major role in preserving and spreading mathematical and scientific knowledge.
Islamic Scholars
TRUE or FALSE: The Abbasid Caliphate was extremely centralized, unified, and politically stable between 1200 and 1450.
FALSE
Where are places Islam spread to due to trade on the Indian Ocean?
India, Southeast Asia, and China
What region was the Trans-Saharan empire located in and what is one empire that directly benefited from it?
North and West Africa; Mali, Ghana, Songhai
What were major crops that spread as a result of increased global trade
?Bananas, Champa Rice, Sugar, Citrus, Yams
A dispersion of people from their homeland. At this time period, it was mostly merchant communities of Muslims in India and Southeast Asia
Diaspora
Monotheistic, People of the Book, Same Holy Lands
What is one thing that Islam, Christianity, and Judaism have in common?
An immensely popular development in Hinduism, advocating intense devotion toward a particular deity.
Bhakti Movement
What were land-based technologies that improved transportation on the Trans-Saharan trade route?
Saddles, Caravans, Camels, Caravanserai
Great Zimbabwe, the Mayas, and areas of feudal Europe all struggled due to this common environmental cause.
Monsoon Winds
What THREE relgions spread mostly through the Indian Ocean trade?
Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism
House of Wisdom
Large Islamic-based Library and learning center in Baghdad. Focus of conversion of Greek and Roman classics and Indian learning into Arabic. Preserved knowledge.
What are maritime technologies that increased trade on the Indian Ocean?
Stern Rudder, Lateen Sail, Astrolabe, Magnetic Compass, Junk, Dhow
Cluster of city states that actively participated in Indian Ocean trade along the East coast of the African continent
Swahili City States
What pushed the Mongols out of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia and into Song China?
The worsening arid climate and a desire for the wealth of the increasingly commercialized Chinese economy under the Song Dynasty
What is one benefit and one consequence of the European Crusades?
Benefit is that it increased European knowledge of other cultures and scientific progress. Consequence is the spread of bubonic plague (although it mostly came from Mongol trade routes from fleas on rats).
Sufism
An Islamic mystical tradition that desired a personal union with God--divine love through intuition rather than through rational deduction and study of the Shari'a. Followed an ascetic routine (denial of physical desire to gain a spiritual goal), dedicating themselves to fasting, prayer, meditation on the Qur'an, and the avoidance of sin.
(1) Spread along trade routes, including Indian Ocean Network (2) Changed as it spread (3) Challenged the caste system (4) More rights for women
What are similarities between the spread of Islam and Buddhism?
(1) Spread along trade routes, including Indian Ocean Network (2) Changed as it spread (3) Challenged the caste system (4) More rights for women
Name EMPIREs from the following places during the period 1200-1450: West Africa, Middle East, South Asia\
West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhai / Middle East: Abbasids and Ilkhan Empire / South Asia: Delhi Sultanate and Chagatai Khanate
Great Zimbabwe, the Mayas, and areas of feudal Europe all struggled due to this common environmental cause.
Deforestation
Who are THREE famous explorers and what routes did they explore?
Marco Polo (Silk Roads), Ibn Battuta (Trans-Saharan), and Zheng He (Indian Ocean)
(1) Mamluks from Egypt (2) Seljuk Turks from Central Asia (3) Crusaders from Europe (4) Mongols from China
Who are TWO groups who posed a challenge to the Abbasid Caliphate AND where did they come from?