States & Empires
This Chinese dynasty used a merit-based bureaucracy and expanded infrastructure like the Grand Canal.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This philosophy emphasized filial piety and social hierarchy in China.
What is Confucianism?
This overland trade network connected East Asia to the Mediterranean.
What are the Silk Roads
This Chinese invention improved navigation at sea.
What is the compass?
This Abbasid institution preserved and translated Greek and Roman knowledge.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This system in medieval Europe decentralized political power and relied on land-for-service relationships.
What is feudalism?
This branch of Islam emphasizes the authority of the Prophet Muhammad’s descendants.
What is Shi’a Islam?
This ocean-based trade network relied on monsoon winds.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
This crop from Vietnam significantly increased Chinese population growth.
What is Champa rice?
What is an inn with a central courtyard for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa?
Caravanserai
This Islamic caliphate oversaw a vast trade network and cultural exchange centered in Baghdad.
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
This movement within Hinduism emphasized personal devotion to a deity over ritual.
What is the Bhakti Movement?
This concept describes the cultural and economic world of Islam.
What is dar al-Islam?
This technology allowed for the rapid spread of knowledge in East Asia.
What is printing?
Who was the Emperor of the Kingdom of Mali in Africa? He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East. Increased contact between the Eurasian world and Africa
Mansa Musa
This empire in West Africa grew wealthy by controlling trans-Saharan trade routes, especially gold and salt.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Islamic mystical tradition focused on a personal connection with God and helped spread Islam.
What is Sufism?
This traveler documented his journeys across Asia, increasing European knowledge of the East.
Who is Marco Polo?
This invention, developed in China, later spread west and changed warfare.
What is gunpowder?
What was one of the four regional subdivisions of the Mongol Empire after death of Genghis Khan; conquered and ruled Russia during the 13th and 14th centuries
Golden Horde
Explain ONE way the Mongol Empire facilitated political or economic stability across Eurasia.
What is they created the Pax Mongolica, which increased trade and safety along routes?
Explain ONE way religion spread along trade routes in this period.
What is merchants and missionaries spreading beliefs through interactions in trade cities?
Explain ONE effect of increased trade networks between 1200–1450.
What is the spread of technology, religion, or disease (like the Black Death)?
Explain ONE impact of technological diffusion across trade networks.
What is improved navigation, increased trade, or stronger militaries?
What is the self-sufficient, economic structure that is the relationship between the Lord and the peasants or serfs who produced all the necessary goods to keep this running?
Manorial System