What is the name of the MesoAmerican & Andean mother culture?
The Olmec
100
This caused conflict in the umma, was a major problem for early Muslim empires, and eventually split Islam.
arguments over Muhammad's succession
100
This document established the principles of limited monarchy and representative bodies.
Magna Carta
100
Where were the Turks and Mongols originally from?
Central Asian steppes
100
The Trans-Saharan trade route is best known for these trade goods.
Salt and gold.
200
Which major Post-classical American civilization had a written language?
The Maya.
200
This is the term for an area ruled by a successor to Muhammad.
caliphate
200
This was the one unifying institution in medieval Europe.
Christian Church
200
What one word that starts with a "c" best describes the character of the participation in Indian Ocean trade?
cosmopolitan
200
These wind patterns in the Indian Ocean played a significant role in the trade patterns and agriculture of East Africa.
monsoons
300
What infrastructural innovation of the Inca helped them spread imperial power via runners and armies?
Roads.
300
Islam played a huge role in bringing about the European Renaissance due to this.
The translation and transmission of Greek and Arab learning
300
Scholars debate whether this rebirth of the arts and learning in Western Europe represents a real change in history, or simply a continuation of progress.
The Renaissance
300
Islam and Hinduism both spread via trade to what major modern country in Southeast Asia?
Indonesia
300
He built mosques and schools in Mali after returning home from his hajj to Mecca.
Mansa Musa
400
This system, adopted by the Inca, involved constituent parts of the group contributing to the whole and receiving foods and clothing in return.
Ayllu
400
This is the term for Islam's religious, civil, and commercial law, based on the Qur'an and the hadith.
Shari'a
400
This part of the Roman Empire eventually became known as Byzantium.
Eastern Roman Empire
400
What philosophy combined with Buddhism and was practiced in China, Korea, and Japan?
Confucianism
400
Goods from China, the Islamic world, and and India might be found in port cities of what cultural group in Africa?
Swahili
500
Which European civilization was structured most similarly to the Maya?
The Greek poli
500
The Delhi Sultanate in India introduced Islam into Indian culture in a very different fashion than the Malian Islamic Empire. Explain this difference.
Delhi: military invasion, intolerant of local religions
Mali: peaceful spread of Islam via trade routes, Islam took on local customs and practices
500
Explain the factors behind population growth in Europe in the latter half of the Post-classical period.
Agricultural technological improvements, climate change, higher standards of living post-plague, rise of middle class, etc.
500
What imperial power in Asia practiced religious tolerance, despite having an originally shamanistic religion themselves?
Mongols
500
This major trade city in southern East Africa eventually fell due to population pressures, deforestation, and desertification.