States and Empires
This Chinese dynasty ruled during much of the period 1200-1450 and relied heavily on Confucian-trained scholar-officials.
What is the Song Dynasty?
This Chinese philosophy stressed social harmony, respect for authority, and proper relationships within society.
What is Confucianism?
This network connected China and Central Asia with the Middle East and Europe primarily through overland trade.
What are the Silk Roads?
Born Temujin, this leader united the Mongol tribes and began the creation of the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who is Genghis Khan?
The spread of Islam into both West Africa and Southeast Asia was closely connected to this economic activity.
What is trade?
This Muslim state established control over much of northern India and helped spread Islam into South Asia.
What is the Delhi Sultanate?
This movement combined traditional Confucian ideas with concepts influenced by Buddhism and Daoism.
What is NeoConfucianism?
Merchants crossing the Sahara relied heavily on this animal because it could survive long periods with little water.
What is the camel?
This grandson of Genghis Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty in China.
Who is Kublai Khan?
Champa rice contributed to population growth in Song China because this characteristic allowed farmers to produce more food.
What is its fast-growing / drought-resistant nature?
This wealthy West African empire benefited from the transSaharan gold trade and reached its height under Mansa Musa.
What is the Mali Empire?
Muslim merchants and missionaries helped spread this religion throughout the Indian Ocean basin and into West Africa.
What is Islam?
Sailors in this trade network timed their voyages around predictable seasonal wind patterns.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
Historians use this term to describe the period of relative security and stability across Eurasia created by Mongol rule.
What is the Pax Mongolica?
The Silk Roads generally specialized in luxury goods, while the Indian Ocean network could move larger quantities of bulk goods primarily because of this difference.
What is maritime transportation? Ships could carry more cargo than land caravans.
This powerful state in southern Africa grew wealthy by controlling trade between the African interior and Indian Ocean ports.
What is Great Zimbabwe?
These Muslim mystics and missionaries often helped spread Islam because they were willing to incorporate some local traditions into their religious practices.
Who are Sufis?
These roadside inns provided merchants and their animals with shelter and supplies while traveling across Central Asia.
What are caravanserai?
The Mongols frequently allowed conquered peoples to continue practicing their own faiths, demonstrating this policy.
What is religious tolerance?
The growth of Swahili city-states such as Kilwa demonstrates how increased trade could cause this broader cultural development.
What is cultural blending / syncretism?
Rather than ruling its enormous territory as one unified state, this empire eventually divided into the Yuan Dynasty, Chagatai Khanate, Ilkhanate, and Golden Horde.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This term describes the blending of elements from different religious or cultural traditions, such as the combination of Buddhist and local beliefs in parts of Asia.
What is syncretism?
Increased demand for luxury goods along the Silk Roads encouraged merchants to use this financial innovation rather than carrying large amounts of metal currency over long distances.
What are bills of exchange?
Mongol rule unintentionally helped this disease move rapidly across Eurasian trade routes during the fourteenth century.
What is the Black Death / bubonic plague?
Mongol conquest both devastated many societies and increased long-distance commerce. This makes the Mongol Empire a strong example of this historical reasoning concept: one development producing multiple, sometimes contradictory results.
What is causation?