East Asia
The dynasty in East Asia during the 1200-1450 time period.
What is Song China?
Two groups of Muslim believers who disagreed on who should lead Islam.
Who are the Shi’a and Sunni Muslims?
This Southeast Asian empire gained power thanks to the trade activities of Buddhist missionaries and construction of monasteries, as well as by completely dominating the Strait of Malacca.
What is the Srivijaya Empire?
This big medieval stone city contained a very large palace that was surrounded by large stone walls that were held together without mortar. It traded between the Indian Ocean trade routes and inner Africa which caused it to have a great economy.
What was Great Zimbabwe?
A form of coerced labor fully based on birth, giving lords full ownership of unpaid laborers
What is serfdom?
This crop, originating from Vietnam, increased the population of East Asia.
What is Champa Rice?
In the wake of Africa's exposure to Islam, this man, a famous Muslim explorer and trader from Morocco, wrote extensively on the cultures and goods he saw and experienced, going on a Hajj, and subsequently exploring across the Sahara.
Who is Ibn Battuta?
Located in Cambodia, this is the largest Hindu temple on earth.
What is Angkor Wat?
This civilization are best known for their advanced calendar and sundial as well as having a lot of writing and books. They also had advanced city states with irrigation and step pyramids.
Who are the Maya city-states?
A socio-economic hierarchy based on the organization of the medieval manor.
What is Manorialism?
What is neo-Confucianism?
This library, based in Baghdad, was open to all scholars and helped perpetuate the Translation Movement.
What is the House of Wisdom?
This is the oldest existing school of Buddhism, emphasizing the Buddha’s teachings, the role of monks and laypeople, the concept of nirvana, the eightfold path, and the arhat(perfected saint).
What is Theravada?
This civilization had a hierarchical system called the míta system within their empire and they incorporated conquered people into their empire. They developed a system for carrying mail that used good roads and good distance runners and they also had a labor tax.
Who are the Inca?
The Catholic practice of excommunicating an entire fiefdom.
What is interdiction?
The creation and expansion of this trade channel in Song China made cross-regional transportation, distributing resources, and the establishment of trade routes, much easier.
What is the Grand Canal?
Islam spread to these places by trade.
What is Sub-Saharan Africa and East Africa?
These three gods make up the Hindu Trinity.
Who are Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva?
This civilization was a tribute empire that required conquered people to pay them with goods and slaves, which were either used for work or religious sacrifice. They were unstable and loosely structured with a king at the top.
Who are the Mexica?
Prior to feudalism and manorialism, this Roman practice was another way that agriculture affected social organization.
What is Roman Latifundia?
Define the civil service exam.
What is an exam that was rooted in Confucianism and used the concept of merit to pick the most qualified government officials?
Along with the five pillars of Islam, this sixth pillar was occasionally considered to be a part of the pillars.
What is the jihad? (The other pillars are the shahdah, salah, zakah, samm, and hajj)
These eight ideas make up the eightfold path.
What are Right View, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration?
The ancient society of Ethiopia, unlike many of its neighbors, followed old Christianity, and not Islam. In fact, they believed they were the ancestors of this biblical figure.
Who was King Solomon
The six different tiers of the social hierarchy in feudal Europe.
Pope/church, monarch, nobles, knights/vassals, merchants/farmers/craftsmen, peasants/serfs