Lynda Shaffer uses this term to describe the influence of South Asia on the rest of the world. According to Shaffer this preceded Westernization.
What is southernization?
100
He was the fifth emperor of the Mongolian Empire and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty.
Who is Kublai Khan?
100
This epic tells the story of the founder of the Mali Empire and the Mande people.
What is the epic of Sundiata (Sunjata)?
100
He lead the Chinese maritime expeditions on the Indian Ocean under the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
100
This person was the founder of the Ottoman Empire.
Who is Osman I?
200
Professor Rahimi used this term to describe societies that were largely influenced by the Persian statecraft and culture.
What is Persianate?
200
This was the capital of the Mongolian Empire between 1235-1260 and of the Northern Yuan in the 14th-15th centuries.
Where is Karakorum?
200
He was the most renown emperor of the Mali Empire and lived between 1280-1337. He established the University of Sankore in Timbuktu, transformed Timbuktu into a commercial hub and went on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
200
Zhou Daguan visited this Cambodian city in the late 13th century and wrote a historical account of the cultural practices of its people.
Where is Ankor (Angkor)?
200
This person rose to fame as a Turkish-Mongolian conqueror in the second half of the 14th century and established a dynasty named after himself. He ruled over a vast territory spanning from Eastern Anatolia and Persia to India.
Who is Tamerlane?
300
Marshall Hodgson uses this term instead of "Islamic" to describe the societies with Muslim majorities.
What is Islamicate?
300
In our lectures, Professor Rahimi gave this event as an example of early biological warfare.
What is the Siege of Caffa?
300
This code of ethics and rules informed the actions of the warrior class in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
What is the code of chivalry?
300
This Chinese dynasty established a monetary based economy.
What is the Song Dynasty?
300
Ibn Khaldun used this term to define the social solidarity of nomadic societies.
What is asabiyyah?
400
According to Lynn Hunt, these three interrelated conceptual elements informed the historical development of the modern time schema in the West.
What are homogeneous, deep and universal time?
400
He was a Persian historian who lived and served under the Mongolian Empire in the 13th century. He wrote one of the most important "insider" accounts on the Mongols.
Who is Juvaini (Juvayni)?
400
In the movie "The Name of the Rose," William of Baskerville and Adso of Melk search for a book written by this person, while they were solving the murder mystery.
What is "On Comedy" by Aristotle?
400
These were types of ships used for the naval expeditions during the early 15th century by the Ming Dynasty.
What are dhows and junks?
400
These mystical fraternities practiced an unorthodox form of Islam and played an important role in the imperial expansion of different states, and actively participated in the economic and military organization of the societies they were part of.
What are Sufi brotherhoods?
500
This scholar (from our course reader) offers a cyclical explanation history.
Who is Ibn Khaldun?
500
This Asian state, under this dynasty, was a prime example of a "Hermit Kingdom."
What is Joseon Korea?
500
European courtly poetry is thought to have been partially influenced by this specific form of traditional Arabic poetry.
What is zajal?
500
He is the 15th century Indian mystic poet who wrote the bakhti (bhakti) poems we read in the course reader.
Who is Kabir?
500
In "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" this person was the husband of Gawain's romantic interest and the host at the castle (Hautdesert). His name was ___, but he was actually ___?