Social Structures & Daily Life
This was the way for a lower-class person in Song China to move up in society.
What is passing the civil service exams?
This branch of Christianity dominated Western Europe.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This system organized land and loyalty in Post-Classical Europe.
What is feudalism?
These famous trade routes connected Song China to the rest of the world.
What are the Silk Road and Indian Ocean Trade?
This invention spread knowledge during the Song Dynasty.
What is printing?
This empire had a flatter social hierarchy and valued merit over birth.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This religion unified much of Mali and its trade cities like Timbuktu.
What is Islam?
This empire was ruled by a Khan who appointed leaders by merit.
What is the Mongol Empire?
These trade goods made Mali wealthy.
What are gold and salt?
This greatly influenced art in the Aztec Empire.
What is human sacrifice?
“Calpulli” groups in Aztec society represented these community units.
What are family-based communities that organized work and social life?
This religion guided Byzantine life and often clashed with Rome.
This religion guided Byzantine life and often clashed with Rome.
This document limited the king’s power in England.
What is the Magna Carta?
This farming innovation helped feed Europe’s growing population.
What are the three-field system and heavy plow?
The Mongols helped make the Silk Road safer by doing this.
What is adding rest/communication stops?
In the Inca Empire, this system meant the ruler’s successor got political power but not wealth or land.
What is split inheritance?
This belief system inspired Song China’s government and education.
What is Confucianism?
In the Inca Empire, rulers maintained control through this system over many people.
What is bureaucracy and tribute systems?
The Aztecs developed this type of agriculture on lakes.
What are chinampas (floating gardens)?
Timbuktu became an important cultural center due to this.
What is its Islamic university and scholars?
These were the three main social classes in Byzantine society.
What are nobles, merchants, and peasants (under the emperor)?
The Mongols practiced this type of religion and allowed others to practice freely.
What is shamanism with religious tolerance?
The Byzantine Empire had this type of government, combining political and religious leadership.
What is a centralized empire with Caesaropapism?
This empire’s capital, Constantinople, was a huge trade hub between Europe and Asia.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
After the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans, its culture influenced these regions.
What are Russia and Eastern Europe, spreading Orthodox Christianity?