Mongols/Misc.
What is the Justinian's Code?
A unified, codified, written system of laws created in the Byzantine Empire.
What is social mobility?
It is the ability to move up or down social classes within a society.
What were the immediate effects of the Crusades?
Out-pour of religious support. Regained Jerusalem, which was quickly lost back and the looting of Constantinople.
What trade routes helped to spread both Buddhism and Islam?
The silk road and overseas trade routes.
What is one way the plague doctors treated the plague?
bloodletting
leeches
drinking your own urine
What territories did the Mongols conquer?
The Asian Steppe, Silk Road Territories and Asia.
How did manorialism work as an economic system?
Peasants worked the land in exchange for a safe place to live.
How did the Chinese invention of gunpowder act as a turning point in history?
Gunpowder changed warfare. It was created in China 200 years before it arrived in Europe or the West.
What technological factors encouraged the development of the Trans-Saharan trade?
The camel caravan and the astrolabe.
How did the Chinese invention of the compass act as a turning point in world history?
-more knowledge of geography
-better able to explore trade
How did the treatment of aristocratic women compare to common women in the Byzantine Empire?
They were held to the same standards throughout society. Modesty, piety and self control were ideal traits. (cultural values)
What are the characteristics of serfdom?
There were limited economic opportunities and serfs lived on manors for safety reasons.
What were the causes of the Crusades?
The desire to regain the holy land from Muslim control, Islamic Caliphates encroaching on Byzantine Empire, access/control of the Middle East trade routes and Spiritual merit.
What factors encouraged Trans-Saharan trade between West Africa and the Mediterranean world?
God and salt and the European demand for it.
Where did the Bubonic Plague originate and how did it spread?
The Bubonic Plague originated in China, and it spread to Europe as trade increased at the end of the Middle Ages.
What military technologies did the Mongols use to help build their empire?
They were built on speed, archery, and gun powder.
What were most economic activities on the feudal manor related to?
Agriculture
What were the long term effects of the Crusades?
The expansion of trade, less power for the Catholic Church and the Pope, more power to kings, growth of trade and towns, and the European Renaissance.
What impact did Emperor Mansa Musa have on Islam across north and west Africa?
He helped spread the Islam religion.
How did the Black Death change the social and economic arrangement in Western Europe?
The Black Death ended Feudalism. It also increased the demand for workers off of manors.
What factors contributed to the end of the Mongol Empire, and what did the new world map look like after the collapse of the Mongols?
Khan failed to name a successor and to create one unified empire, the empire quickly collapsed.
How did feudalism develop as a social and economic system in Western Europe?
In exchange for land> for protection> rigid social class structure > peasants are tied to the land.
How did the Chinese invention of movable type act as a turning point in world history?
The literacy rate went up. Text cost less money and ideas spread quicker.
Two of the Five Pillars of Islam are Hajj, which is the pilgrimage to Mecca. Another is Faith, which is the belief in one god Allah. Name the other 3 Pillars of Islam.
3-prayer- five times a day
4-fasting-during the holy month of Ramadan
5-alms-charity
What factors inside of Europe encouraged the spread of the Bubonic Plague?
The increase in demand for goods from the Middle East, India, China and South East Asia and poor sanitation.