Song & Yuan
This Venetian traveler is one of our best sources of information about the Song dynasty, even though he vuisited China some twenty years after it was conquered by the Mongols.
Who is Marco Polo?
These were the two larger sects of Islam that competed for control over the core regions of the Dar al-Islam territories.
Who were the Shia and the Sunni
This social system required people marry only members of their same social class, restricted the works and rights of people, and was integral to the religion of India
What was the Caste System
These are four major civilizations that appeared in the Americas
Who are the Maya, the Aztec, The Olmec, the Totihuacan, the Pueblo, the Mississippians (Cahokia), the Incas, and the Nazca?
He was considered the richest man in History for a long time.
Who was Mansa Musa?
A system whereby anyone who wanted to work in government had to pass a standardized exam
What was the Civil Service Examinations System?
This Islamic sect always remained small within the core Arab world in the Middle East, but became the largest denomination in most of South and South East Asia, and in parts of Africa?
Who were the Sufis?
This was an alternative trade route connecting East and West Afro Eurasia, which tended to move cheaper bulk goods like grain or heavy raw materials instead of highly valuable manufactured goods.
What was the Maritime Silk Road
These were ceremonial wars engaged in by the Aztec to collect sacrificial prisoners and to ceremonially graduate young warriors to adulthood.
What were the Garland wars
This Code ruled the bahavior of Knights in the later Middle Ages
What was the Code of Chivalry?
This terms was used by Chinese scholars to reference the cycle of rise and fall of Dynastic regimes that occurred in traditional China.
What was the Cycle of Heaven?
This great university and library built in Baghdad was the crown jewel of the Abbasid Era, and its construction and destruction mark the beginning and end of the Islamic Golden Age.
What was the House of Wisdom?
This religious movement ignored caste differentiations, emphasized emotional and spiritual experience, and encouraged people to worship only one patron god in the Hindu pantheon. It was largely modeled after a similar deviant Islamic movement.
What was the Bhakti movement?
These were reasons why the Americas could not develop the same number of sophisticated technologies as the Old World. (Name two)
-North South orientation of the continent
-Lack of pack animals
-geographic isolation (weather)
This language prospered in East Africa and was a mixture of Arab and Bantu words.
What was the Swahili?
This major building project finished during the short-lived Sui Dynasty that existed between the T'ang and Song eras allowed the Chinese to engage in enormous internal trade of goods and ideas between North and South China, and was a major factor in Song economic prosperity.
What was 'The Grand Canal'?
This language was the product of mixing Arabic, Persian, and Indian Sanskrit, and even today is the official language of Pakistan.
What is the Urdu tongue?
These were Indian military innovations from this era.(Name at least one)
What were the Urumi Swordsmen, the Rajput Pata, the Katar dagger, the chakrams, and the Haladie?
This Inca system of tax collection through labor allowed them to build an extensive road system in the Andes.
What was the Mit'a system?
This economic system in which everything is made locally with little external trade at the cost of lower quality and higher prices.
What was an autarchy?
These were some of the Song & Mongol military innovations to military technology. (name at least three)
What were the Mangudai, the stirrup, the compound bow, the Hui Hui Pao, the 'nest of bees', the 'Qiang lancer', the 'fire lancer', and the 'Chu Ko Nu'?
These are the three core ethnic groups that converted to Islam and which took the mantle of leading the faith to expand at one point or other.
What do the Arabs, Persians (Farsi), and Turks share in common?
These were states and empires in the Southern part of India and in South east Asia
What were the Majapahit Kingdom, Khmer, Siam, Annam, Sriviyaya state & the Vijayanagara Empire ?
These were important differences in theological worldview between the Americas and the Old World great monotheistic religions.
Belief in a cyclical repeating timeline,
Belief in the power of sacrifice as food for the Gods
belief that Nature, Humans. and the Divine lived in three symbiotic spheres.
Name the three African Subsaharan empires that prospered mostly by trading their gold in exchange for manufactured goods brought in via the Silk Road.
What were Ghana/Mali Empires, the Hausa city-states, and the Aksum kingdom?