Islam
A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers = Muslims.
Islam
This was the emperor for the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East. Richest man in the world.
Mansa Musa
These were Chinese ships, particularly from the 1400s. It was a sturdy ship design and the largest of its kind were treasures ships that could carry a thousand tons of cargo.
Junks
This was a major state that developed in what is now Mexico in the 14th and 15th centuries; dominated by the seminomadic Mexica, who had migrated into the region from northern Mexico.
Aztec Empire
This 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linked the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire.
Grand Canal
570-632. Born in Mecca, died in Medina. Founder of Islam. Regarded by Muslims as a prophet of God. Teachings make up the Qu'ran, the Muslim holy book.
Mohammed
As part of the Mali empire, this city became a major stop on the trans-Saharan trade and a center of Islamic learning.
Timbuktu
This instrument contains a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north.
Compass
This civilization is located in the Andes Mountains of South America. By the end of the 1400s it was the largest empire in the Americas.
Incan Empire
This was the Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and peoples that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tax to the Chinese
Tribute System
Declaration of faith, prayer, alms, fasting, and pilgrimage
5 Pillars of Islam
From 1235-1400, a strong empire of Western African. With its trading cities of Timbuktu and Gao, it had many mosques and universities. The Empire upheld gold-salt trade.
Mali Empire
This instrument was used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets.
Astrolabe
These are a system of knots used for record keeping by the Incas
Quipos
This practice in Chinese society was 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.
Foot Binding
A member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs
Shi'a or Shiite
These waring states that were always competing for control of trade routes and each other. Many of these city-states were Muslim and very cosmopolitan. Located along the water.
Swahili city-states
He was a 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
These are raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields.
Chinampas
This killed between 1/3 and 2/3 of the population in less than 5 years. The epidemic spanned from China to England to North Africa, transmitted along the Silk Road and other routes.
Black Death
A branch of Islam whose members acknowledge the first four caliphs as the rightful successors of Muhammad
Sunni
This was a Moroccan Muslim scholar who wrote a detailed account of his visits to Islamic lands from China to Spain and the western Sudan.
Ibn Battuta
This woman wrote a book describing her travels across both European and Middle-eastern Christian holy sites. Her details provided a glimpse of life, society, and Christian tradition across a wide area of the Christian world.
Margery Kemp
Which 2 countries conquered most of Latin America?
Spain and Portugal
Emperors in China used this reason as to why God put them there to rule
Mandate of Heaven