China/Islamic
Name of the long distance trade routes that linked East and West, centering especially on Chinese goods
What is the Silk Road?
Name of the pre-modern Russian state founded after the migration of the East Slavic peoples and ruled oligarchically by the Grand Prince and his retainers
What is the Kievan Rus?
Name of the society that embodied the ancient glory that was supposedly lost and longed for in pre-modern, medieval Europe
What is Ancient Rome/The Roman Empire?
The name of the social stratification in India derived from Hinduism
What is the caste system?
The name of the tribal unifier and first ruler of the Mongol Empire
The Islamic state that oversaw the Islamic Golden Age
What is the Abbasid Caliphate?
Name of the religion in Japan that focused on the worship of the emperor as divine along with other gods
Name of social structure based upon contractual relations of land (fiefs) for service (fighting or agricultural work)
What is feudalism?
Rulers in the Kingdom of Ghana and the Mali Empire converted to this religion in order to strengthen their trade alliances.
What is Islam?
The name of the Chinese dynasty founded by Kublai Khan and the Khanate of the Great Khan
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
The name of the libraries and museums in which Muslims preserved and cultivated ancient knowledge to advance their society
What are Houses of Wisdom?
The government that resulted from the Genpei War prompted by ongoing family clan factionalism and jockeying for power in pre-modern Japan
Main reason for the schism of the Medieval Church between the west's Roman Catholic Church and the east's Eastern Orthodox Church
What is papal supremacy?
Type of social organization did that Mayan Civilization had that promoted stability and permitted its notable advancements.
What is fully settled?
The Khanate that exercised indirect rule over the Kievan Rus (pre-modern Russia) state, extracting tribute and using spies
What is the Golden Horde?
Ancient governing and social philosophy in China that stressed moral behavior, harmony, and filial piety
What is Confucianism?
Significance of birch tree letters found in the former Kievan Rus
What is evidence of a literate urban population and some advancement in general in pre-modern Russia?
Period in Latin Christendom when there was a status quo of some decentralized consolidation and territorial stabilization, during which kings also became better at governing
What are the High Middle Ages?
Name of the Islamic state that ruled northern India from 1206-1526 with an inefficient bureaucracy that excluded native Hindus
What is the Delhi Sultanate
This infamous event/conquest represented the destructive impact of Mongol rule
What is the Sack of Baghdad?
Innovation in pre-modern China that facilitated some commercialization and some urbanization
What is paper money?
Main similarity between the development of the Kanji script and Cyrillic alphabet
What is both being created with outside help from more advanced societies?
Capital of the Byzantine Empire that facilitated its economic stability as a major center of east-west long distance trade
What is Constantinople?
African ethnic group whose migrations spread language, iron metallurgy, and farming techniques across much of Sub-Saharan Africa
Who are the Bantus
The period known for the revival and promotion of safe, long distance trade
What is Pax Mongolica?