Trade Routes
Where are the Silk roads?
Across Aisa
Where were the African Kingdoms developed?
Sub-saharan west and East Africa
What are the 3 Americans?
mayans
Azets
Incans
Where did Islam spread?
To the fertile cresent, Iran, and central Aisa
Where is the Indian Empire located?
Indian Ocean, mountians (Himalayas + Hindu Kush)
Routes across the Indian Ocean
What were the 3 empires in West Africa?
Mali, Ghana, Songhai
What Religion was all 3 americans?
Polytheistic
What is the Islamic schism?
Where the face splits in to Sunni and Shia
Who conquered the Indus Valley?
Nomatic warriors called Aryans
Where is gold from?
West Africa
Who is Masa Musa?
Richest man to ever live, he ruled Mali empire
What did the Mayans create?
The calender
Hieroglyphic symbols
What is the battle of Tours?
It stopped the spread of Islam into Europe on the Iberian Peninsula
Who is the leader of the Mauryan Empire?
Asoka
Paper was from?
China through Muslim world to the Byzantium to western Europe.
Name the 3 Rivers in the Ancient African Kindoms
Niger
Nile
Zambezi
Limpopo
The Aztecs were defeated by the Spanish conquest but how?
Due to dissease & cough
List two achievemtns of the Islamic civilizations
Univercities established
Muslims doctors
Decimal system
Advances also made in geometry
Dome of the Rock
Arabesque
What did they create during the Golden Age of the Gupta Dynasty?
Decimal system
Concept of zero
Arabic numberals
Fables and folk tales in sanskirt
advanced astronomy
Where was lateen sail from?
Indian Ocean
Timbuktu was the center of?
What did the Incans have?
Massive road system
Terrance Farming
Quipu series of knots
Where did the Umayyad family move the capital to?
Damascus
When Asoka turned Buddhist what did it do?
It brought peace, prosperity, unity, built roads, hospitals, buddhist shrines.