Dar al-Islam
Islamic scholar who contributed to astronomy, law, logic, ethics, mathematics, philosophy, and medicine.
Who is Nasir al-Din al-Tusi?
A network of trading routes across the great desert.
What is trans-Saharan trade?
What are the Rajput kingdoms?
China: A vast organization in which appointed officials carried out the empire's policies.
What is bureaucracy?
European civilization in the Middle Ages was characterized by a decentralized political organization based on a system of exchanges of land for loyalty known as this.
What was feudalism?
Muslims who emphasized introspection to grasp truths that they believed could not be understood through learning.
Who are Sufis?
Not in the location of the modern country going by the same name, this kingdom was between the Sahara and the tropical rain forests fo the West African coast. Its rulers sold gold and ivory to Muslim traders in exchange for salt, copper, cloth and tools. From the capital city, Koumbi Saleh, the king ruled a centralized government aided by nobles and an army equipped with iron weapons.
What was Ghana?
In the early 13th century, Islamic forces conquered the city of Delhi and much of the northern portion of South Asia creating this.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
China: This provided an inexpensive and efficient transportation system that extended over 30,000 miles.
What is the Grand Canal?
Part of the manorial system, these peasants were tied to the land and could not travel without permission from their lords or marry without their lord's approval.
What were serfs?
Dowries had to be paid to the future wife rather than to her father and female infanticide was banned. Women were allowed to inherit property and retain ownership after marriage. They could remarry if widowed and could receive a cash settlement if divorced.
What are policies that Muhammad put in place that raised the status of women?
This state's founding ruler, Sundiata, was a Muslim and used his connections with others of his faith to establish trade relationships with North African and Arab merchants and cultivated a thriving gold trade.
What was Mali?
Unlike Islam, this religion prays to many gods, features pictures of deities on temples and artwork, is associated with a hierarchical caste system and recognizes several sacred texts.
What is Hinduism?
China: Bureaucratic expansion created this entirely new social class.
What is the scholar gentry?
France: This was a body to advise the king and included representatives from each of the three legal classes: the clergy, nobility, and commoners.
What was the Estates-General?
The Abbasids allowed Christians to travel easily to and from their holy sites in and around Jerusalem. However, the Seljuk Turks limited this travel leading to this.
What are the Crusades?
Sundiata's nephew who made a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who was Mansa Musa?
Beginning in the 12th century, some Hindus began to draw upon traditional teachings about the importance of emotion in their spiritual life. Rather than emphasize studying texts or performing rituals, they focused on developing a strong attachment to a particular deity.
What is the Bhakti Movement?
One source of income for the government came from this arrangement in which other states had to pay money or provide goods to honor the Chinese emperor.
What is the tributary system?
England: Many English nobles objected to the power of William and the succeeding Norman monarchs. In 1215, they forced King John to sign this, which required teh king to respect certain rights, such as the right to a jury trial before a noble could be sentenced to prison.
What was the Magna Carta?
Arabs often purchased these enslaved people, who were frequently ethnic Turks from Central Asia, to serve as soldiers and later as diplomats.
Who are Mamluks?
In East Africa, traders blended Bantu and Arabic to develop a new language that is still spoken by various groups in the Great Lakes region as well as other parts of Southeast Africa.
What is Swahili?
This kingdom in Sri Lanka had their roots in the arrival of early immigrants, most likely merchants, from north India. Buudhists arrived in the 3rd century BCE and the island became a center of Buddhist study.
What are the Sinhala dynasties?
A syncretic system, combining rational thought with the more abstract ideas of Daoism and Buddhism.
What is Neo-Confucianism?
These types of rules, under which the eldest son in a family inherited the entire estate, left a generation of younger sons with little access to wealth and land.
What is primogeniture?