East/South/Southeast
Asia
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What is Champa Rice?
A roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey. Supported the flow of commerce, information and people across the network of trade routes linking Afro-Eurasia, most notably the Silk Road.
What is Caravanserai?
The ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.
What is Aztlán?
The status of many peasants under feudalism. This status was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude, which developed during the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century.
What is Serfdom?
Imperial dynasty of China that began in 960 and lasted until 1279.
What is Song Dynasty?
Scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, largely in the Muslim world. He travelled more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, covering more distance than Zheng He and Marco Polo.
What is Ibn Battuta?
A Nahuatl-speaking indigenous people of the Valley of Mexico who were the rulers of the Aztec Empire.
What is Mexica?
A commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northern Europe. This network dominated trade in the Baltic Sea region and had its own legal system.
What is the Hanseatic League?
A temple complex in Cambodia and is the largest religious monument in the world. Originally constructed as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu for the Khmer Empire, gradually transformed into a Buddhist temple; as such, it is also described as a "Hindu-Buddhist" temple.
What is Angkor Wat?
A mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ritualism, asceticism and esotericism.
What is Sufism?
This East African state, a "Christian island in an Islamic sea," developed Christianity independently from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches after being cut off from them by the expansion of Islam in Africa.
What is Ethiopia?
A large Mexica city in what is now the historic center of Mexico City. At its peak, this was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This ocean chokepoint controlled many sea-based trading routes that connected the Indian Ocean and East Asia.
What is the Strait of Malacca?
a Turkic empire that existed from the 11th to the 14th centuries. This empire was founded by a group of nomadic warriors who had migrated from Central Asia to the Middle East. At its height, it controlled a vast territory that included parts of modern-day Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, and was able to conquer Baghdad.
What is the Seljuk Empire?
This empire used a centralized bureaucracy to form the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco.
What is Inca Empire?
This period formed the environmental context for the decline in food production and the beginning of periods of famine
What is the Little Ice Age
A Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty.
What is Zheng He?
a medieval Islamic state in Egypt and Syria that was founded by slave soldiers. They rose to power through military prowess and remained in control for several centuries.
What is the Mamluk Sultanate?
A technique used in Mesoamerican agriculture which relies on small, rectangular areas of fertile arable land to grow crops on the shallow lake beds in the Valley of Mexico. They are built up on wetlands of a lake or freshwater swamp for agricultural purposes, and their proportions ensure optimal moisture retention.
What is a Chinampa?
A royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England on 15 June 1215. This agreement curbed the power of the monarchy, promising the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.
What is the Magna Carta?