Cultural and Intellectual Trends/Technological Innovations
Society and People
100
Spread from southwestern China to Europe. Fleas on rats and squirrels transmitted the disease.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
100
_________, headquartered in Baghdad, allowed Muslims, as well as Persians, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians to rise to positions of power and wealth.
Who are the Abbasids?
100
From China, _____ and _______, from India, pepper.
What is silk and porcelain?
100
Initially used as an explosive in the building of canals and irrigation systems.
What is gunpowder?
100
Inspired Columbus and others to attempt to find a passage to the East.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
Code of Conduct-Europe:chivalry; Japan: Bushido, Warriors-Europe: knights; Japan: samurai.
What is Feudalism in Europe and Japan?
200
Restored peace and stability after the fall of the Sui dynasty.
What is the Tang Dynasty?
200
Long-Distance ____ __ _____ _______ traveled in two routes: the Silk Road and the sea.
What is Trade in Eastern Hemisphere?
200
Basic eduacation was occationally provided to the elite and their children in schools by ___________ or political leaders who brought scholars to their courts.
What are monasteries?
200
United Central Asia and attacked Tibet, northern China, Persia, and the central Asian steppes.
Who is Ghengis Khan?
300
Byzantine Empire, feudal nobles, and papal power and the church were weakened; European technology improved.
What is some of the Results of the Crusades?
300
Established my Osman; captured Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
300
Abbasids encouraged larger-scale trade by reinstituting these letters of credit.
What are sakks?
300
No unified religious beliefs; Many monotheistic; Lesser gods and spirits associated with forces of nature.
What are the traditional African religious beliefs?
300
Known as "the cannibal kingdom" for their widespread practice of human sacrifice.
Who are the Aztecs?
400
Indian Influences: mathematics, Arabic/Hindu numbers, symbol for zero, algebra, trigonometry, geometry.
What are some of the Influences on Dal al-Islam?
400
Decline resulted from a failure if the equal-field system; land became concentrated into then hands of the wealthy elite.
What is Early Japan?
400
A trade network that developed in the Baltic and North Sea. Encompassed the commercial centers of Poland, northern Germany, and Scandinavia.
What is the Hanseatic League?
400
Developed in response to popularity of Buddhism; Scholars of Song dynasty combined Buddhist and Confucian beliefs to create this.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
400
Described women as honorable individuals equal to men, not property.
What is the Qur'an?
500
Pope Innocent IV sent missionaries to convert the ________ ______ to Christianity to no avail; although welcomed by the ______, ultimately unsuccessful.
What is Mongol Khans.
500
With strong central power uniting western Europe after the fall of Rome, regional ___________ developed in France and England.
What are monarchies?
500
______-______ ______ was used to rotate crops and preserve nutrients on manors.
What is the Three-field system?
500
Oceangoing ships built in China during the Song dynasty
What are Junks?
500
People living along the coast supplemented _______ advances with ocean fishing and maritime trade - builders of Swahili society.