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Ruler of Mali. His pilgrimage through Egypt to Mecca is known as the Golden Haji.
Mansa Musa
networks of exchange linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara
Trans-Saharan Trade
A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans; humans in late stages of the illness can spread the bacteria by coughing. High mortality rate and hard to contain. Disastrous.
Bubonic Plague
A network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia
Indian Ocean Trade
Why was the Grand Canal so important to China?
Served as a long distance route through China
East African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa and the Zambezi River
Swahili Coast
Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.
Footbinding
Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad.
Caliphate
The first Islamic government established within India
Delhi Sultanate
an Arabic term that means the "house of Islam" and that refers to lands under Islamic rule
Dar al-Islam
As part of the Mali empire, this city became a major major center of the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning.
Timbuktu
A type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to peruse their a new occupation.
Serfdom
Established in western Europe during the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages with its head being the pope.
Roman Catholic Church
tributary gift from Vietnam to China, led to population increase
Champa Rice
Society in which men are the head of their families and are considered to have more power
Patriarchal Society
Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history.
Genghis Khan
Four regional Mongol kingdoms that arose following the death of Genghis Khan.
Khanates
The caliphate, after the Umayyads, who focused more on administration than conquering.
Abbasid Caliphate
Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade.
Marco Polo
The Chinese dynasty that placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and arts other than military.
Song
Used to travel across deserts in Trans-Saharan trade and Silk Road
Camel Caravans
Chinese bureaucrats passed to serve in state, based on Confucian concepts, Han origins.
Civil Service Exam
The kingdom in West Africa that followed the Kingdom of Ghana; its wealth is also based on trans-Saharan trade; this kingdom encouraged the spread of Islam.
Mali
A system first established during the Han Dynasty to regulate contact with foreign powers. Continued in other Chinese Dynasties. States and tribes beyond its borders sent envoys bearing gifts and received gifts in return.
Tributary System
A political and social system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land
Feudalism