Global Tapestry 1200–1450 (Unit 1)
Chinese dynasty known for reviving Confucian bureaucracy and the civil service exam in 1200–1450.
What is the Song (or early Yuan following Song) dynasty?
Pack animal crucial for long-distance Silk Road caravans across Inner Asia.
What is the camel?
Seasonal wind system sailors timed voyages around.
What are the monsoon winds?
North African traders who crossed the desert with salt to exchange for West African gold.
What are Berber (or Arab) merchants?
Ottoman elite infantry recruited via devshirme.
What are the Janissaries?
Islamic political unit led by a caliph; spread across Dar al-Isla
What is a caliphate?
Luxury Chinese fiber that gave the routes their name.
What is silk?
riangular ship sail that allowed tacking against the wind.
What is the lateen sail?
Domesticated animal that made Sahara caravans possible.
What is the camel?
Mughal ruler famous for tolerance and syncretic “Divine Faith.”
What is Akbar?
Hindu–Buddhist kingdom in SE Asia famous for the Angkor Wat complex.
What is the Khmer Empire?
Paper money first widely used by this dynasty to support long-distance trade.
What is the Song dynasty?
East African coast culture blending Bantu and Arabic influences.
What is Swahili (the Swahili Coast)?
West African empire ruled by Mansa Musa.
What is Mali?
Safavid state religion that distinguished it from Sunni neighbors.
What is Twelver Shi’a Islam?
West African trading city that flourished under Mali for gold-salt trade and learning.
What is Timbuktu?
Persian-Mongol courier network that sped up communication across Eurasia.
What is the Yam (relay) system?
SE Asian entrepôt that taxed straits traffic between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
What is Melaka (Malacca)?
Faith that spread along the Trans-Saharan routes to West African elites.
What is Islam?
Qing policy of ruling a multiethnic empire while retaining Manchu identity (name one element).
What is maintaining Manchu language/queues/banners alongside Chinese bureaucracy?
Japan’s 1200–1450 political system mixing emperor, shogun, daimyo, samurai, and bushidō.
What is a feudal military government (the shogunate)?
Two major effects of Silk Road exchange on cities like Kashgar and Samarkand (name two).
What is urban growth and cultural/technological diffusion (or prosperity and syncretism)?
Diasporic merchant communities formed this way at key ports (explain in a phrase).
What is merchants settling abroad and maintaining homeland culture while facilitating trade?
Architectural feature introduced to West Africa via Islam (often in mosques like Djenné).
What is the minaret (or mud-brick mosque architecture)?
Two ways gunpowder empires legitimized rule beyond warfare (name two).
What are monumental architecture, state patronage of arts, religious titles/rituals, or bureaucratic reforms?